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Fantasy baseball forecaster for Week 2: Aug. 3-9

Hitter matchup ratings for the next 10 days Week 2 hitting ratings Week 2 pitcher rankings The COVID-19 situation surrounding the Miami Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies, which has also impacted the schedules of the Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and Washington Nationals, has the Week 2 schedule in a state of flux. […]

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Your guide to the most unusual MLB Opening Day ever

Baseball is back. The home runs are back. The blazing fastballs blurring across our TV screens are back. The bat flips, the doubles in the gap, the “how did he do that?” defensive plays, the box scores, the exit velocities, the hot takes, the debates, the hopeful late-game rallies, the walk-off hits, the beautiful background […]

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2020 MLB Opening Day lineups for every game

Baseball is back for a very unique 2020 MLB season. Not sure who is starting for your team? We’re tracking batting orders from across the majors, including the first NL games since the universal DH was adapted for the season. Check back for updates as teams announce their Opening Day starting lineups for all of […]

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2020 MLB season preview: Power Rankings and everything you need to know for 60-game sprint

The 2020 major league baseball season will be like none that has ever come before it. MLB’s 30 teams will have just 60 games to try to streak into the postseason. Players and coaches will need to focus on the field while maintaining strict health and safety protocols off of it. There will be limited […]

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Mookie’s $365 million extension with Dodgers: What mega deal means for MLB, L.A., Betts and more

The day before the Los Angeles Dodgers open the 2020 season as heavy favorites to win the World Series, they locked up Mookie Betts for the next decade-plus. Betts and the Dodgers agreed to terms on a 12-year extension worth $365 million, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday, a deal that could keep Betts […]

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2020 MLB season expert predictions: Division picks, playoff field, World Series winner

After a delay of nearly four months, the 2020 MLB season will begin on Thursday night when the Washington Nationals host the New York Yankees (7 ET, ESPN). It’s time to pin down our expectations for what we expect to happen in the abbreviated 60-game season. Will the Nationals repeat? Is this the year the […]

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The most exciting themes, teams and players for MLB’s 60-game season

There is baseball in just over four days. Real, live major league baseball, with standings and statistics and strikeouts. Max Scherzer will throw the first pitch of the abbreviated 2020 season when the Washington Nationals host the New York Yankees on Thursday night on ESPN. It’s going to look weird, with no fans in the […]

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Recapping MLB’s offseason moves, from blockbusters to those you probably forgot

At times, it feels like we are all trapped in one of the dream levels in Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” except instead of time moving faster, it slows down. Way back last winter, which nobody remembers because it happened 100 years ago, we had a baseball offseason. Players signed with new teams, trades were made and […]

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Picking both 2020 MLB All-Star rosters — even though there’s no game

The 91st All-Star Game would have been played Tuesday, and it would have been a wonderful celebration of the sport’s best players at Dodger Stadium. Instead, for the first time since 1945, there is no game, so the American League will carry its seven-game winning streak into 2021 at Atlanta’s Truist Park, with Dodger Stadium […]

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