It took less than a day after the Braves won the World Series for the first offseason move to be made. If we've learned anything from offseasons past, there are going to be dozens and dozens more such moves to follow it. As we've regularly done in the past (2018-19,...

Byron Buxton, who has stayed healthy enough to collect 350 plate appearances in a season exactly once in his seven-year career (and that came back in 2017), just collected a guaranteed $100 million from the Twins, and you’re shocked at how much money that is for a player who’s rarely...

Shohei Ohtani's unanimous MVP season was unique any way you look at it. It's unique from the eye test: No one has ever watched a player hit and pitch like this at the Major League level. It's a unique stat line: There's nothing else resembling a 45 homer/25 steal/150 pitching...

In a lot of ways, this winter’s free-agent market is deep, and talented. We’ve all heard so much about the incredible shortstop class, but there are also plenty of starting pitchers and corner outfielders; corner infield isn’t quite so deep, yet you can still go out and get Freddie Freeman...

Diving catches, perfect throws -- defensive gems are some of the most exciting highlights. Here are some of the best of 2021, with help from Statcast. Statcast's tracking can show us just how unlikely a great catch was in the outfield, or just how hard a throw was to nab...

In the first two weeks of the free agent period this winter, we’ve seen two different veteran starting pitchers depart their old clubs in favor of new teams. Neither had what you might call a “traditionally good” platform year, as the duo combined for a 5.23 ERA in 2021 --...

We’ve been talking about this winter’s incredible crop of free-agent shortstops for quite some time, and it’s finally here. Even without Francisco Lindor, who signed a $341 million extension with the Mets before the 2021 season, we still have Carlos Correa, Corey Seager, Javier Báez, Trevor Story and Marcus Semien...

The 2021 All-MLB ballot is out, and there are some obvious favorites -- who's not voting for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. or Shohei Ohtani or Max Scherzer? Well … here's a case for some other deserving candidates you might not think of at first. • VOTE NOW: All-MLB Team This is...

Now that the 2021 season is over, let's look back at the nastiest pitches of the year -- with help from Statcast. Statcast's tracking technology lets us see the numbers behind the best pitches in baseball, whether it's a triple-digit fastball or a high-spin curveball or a slider with two...

After parts of seven seasons in Colorado and an inability to reach agreement on a contract extension, pitcher Jon Gray is a free agent, where he’ll probably be considered among the second tier of available starters \-\- though the fact that the Rockies shockingly declined to issue him a qualifying...