
8 trade candidates who might be better than their '26 stats
Some of this year's best Trade Deadline targets might be hiding behind bad stats....
Jo Adell
Reid Detmers
Kevin Gausman
Freddy Peralta
Heliot Ramos
Trevor Rogers
George Springer
Tyler Stephenson

Seven years between big league appearances, this flame-thrower is a different pitcher
When the Red Sox signed Tyron Guerrero to a Minor League contract in January, the move didn’t exactly cause a stir.
But a small group of fans may have remembered a time when Guerrero did cause a stir. The 6-foot-8 right-hander logged 112 appearances for the Marlins from 2018-19, and...
Tyron Guerrero

Who should trade for Arraez? Here are 6 top options
For all the rumors flying ahead of the Trade Deadline about who will get traded, or not, and where, and for whom, there’s one name that stands out above all others as being the most interesting.
OK, fine, there’s two names, but we’re not talking about Tarik Skubal today. We’re...
Luis Arraez

Which version of Skubal would trade suitors be getting?
It's the defining question of this year's Trade Deadline: Will Tarik Skubal be dealt? But perhaps just as important for potential suitors is this: what exactly are they buying?
Skubal returned so quickly that it’s easy to forget he’s less than three months removed from surgery to remove a loose...
Tarik Skubal

What would top SP trade candidates bring to a new club? Let this Savant tool compare
Tarik Skubal is the Very Big Obvious No. 1 starting pitcher on the trade market. But there are plenty of other good starters out there, with a wide variety of skill sets.
If you're a contender on the hunt for pitching in the final weeks before the Aug. 3 Trade...
Joe Ryan
Reid Detmers
José Soriano
Casey Mize
Clay Holmes
Foster Griffin
Kevin Gausman
Michael Wacha

A bat tweak -- the size of a hockey puck -- has made all the difference for Soto
The master craftsman changed his tools. Juan Soto, in his neverending quest for hitting perfection, started swinging new lumber this season.
Soto has spent nearly a decade in the big leagues establishing himself as one of the greatest hitters of his generation. Over that time -- although he cycled through...
Juan Soto

PCA's latest ridiculous catch gives him a Statcast record
In the midst of a wild 8-6 Cubs loss to Detroit on Monday, Pete Crow-Armstrong did something that he’s done so often that it almost feels routine: He made a truly great defensive play.
Stunning, we know: The defending Gold Glover, who rates as the best non-catcher defender in baseball...
Pete Crow-Armstrong

Baseball Savant's new player comp tool can help settle (almost) any MLB argument
With so many metrics out there in the baseball world, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to collect them, to know where to look and to see what's changed over time -- to settle arguments, or create new ones. With the new Baseball Savant Statcast Player Comparison tool, maybe...
Jordan Walker
Anthony Volpe
Paul Skenes
José Caballero

The pitch-usage wrinkle that helps make Tarik Skubal unique
Sitting in front of his locker at Yankee Stadium, Tarik Skubal wants to run a search on Baseball Savant.
One of the best pitchers in baseball, at least in this way, is just like us.
On the mound, Skubal does a lot of things that nobody else does. He has...
Tarik Skubal

These are the nastiest pitches of the first half of the season
Every pitch matters.
That might be a simplistic analysis, but it's the basic premise of Statcast's Run Value system, which helped determine some of the top pitches of the first half of the 2026 season. Run values look at the run impact of an event based on the runners on...
Jacob Misiorowski
Nolan McLean
Jacob deGrom
Shohei Ohtani
Ben Brown
Nathan Eovaldi
Cristopher Sanchez
Foster Griffin