Major League Baseball’s trade deadline in July has always been more of a guideline than a hard deadline. Trades were always still allowed in August, as long as the players involved cleared waivers first before being traded. That longtime r...
Read more This Year’s MLB Trade Deadline Has More Finality, and More Players Could Be on the Move
Last season, the Atlanta Braves had a 3-1 lead on the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Blowing that lead was obviously a disappointment, but the Braves seemed primed to ...
Read more The Atlanta Braves Are World Series Contenders – If They Can Just Fix That Bullpen
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Tampa Bay Rays made it to the World Series in 2020, and then subsequently lost several of their top players from the roster. And despite that, they once again find themselves in contention in t...
Read more The Perennially Rebuilding Tampa Bay Rays Continue to Be Contenders
In the first inning of his first Major League start, Toronto Blue Jays rookie Alek Manoah caused New York Yankees star Aaron Judge to swing so hard at a pitch he lost his balance and had to go down to one knee. He moved his mom to tears in...
Read more Is Alek Manoah the Savior the Blue Jays Need?
The Minnesota Twins have won the AL Central Division for two straight seasons. Last season, even with a highly talented Chicago White Sox team primed to take over AL dominance for the near future, the Twins were able to hold them off. Most...
Read more Four Reasons the Minnesota Twins Have Fallen Apart
Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Otani isn’t just having an MVP-caliber start to his season. He’s drawing comparisons to arguably the most mythologized baseball player of all-time, Babe Ruth. Seriously. A CNN headline noted that Otani was the...
Read more Shohei Ohtani Is Doing Babe Ruth Things
Every Major League Baseball season is full of surprises, and perhaps it’s not fair to talk about franchises that have each won multiple World Series titles in the last decade as “underdogs,” but the play of both the Boston Red Sox and the S...
Read more Three Reasons Why the Red Sox and Giants Have Overachieved
Not many players could dream of a better Major League debut week than Detroit Tigers rookie Akil Baddoo had in April. The very first pitch Badoo saw as a Major League player, he crushed for a home run (and added a great bat flip). In his...
Read more Biggest Surprises of the Major League Baseball Season So Far