Payton Tolle might be the most energetic pitcher in the league. Sometimes he transfers that energy into pushups on the mound. More often, he transfers it into the baseball. Everything about Tolle is explosive, which is why he's 1) a fan favorite and 2) a frontline starter for a playoff-bound...

The Cubs have the best offense in baseball, and by a large margin, too. It’s actually arguably the best in team history, and this is a team with a lot of history. The Cubs have the best defense in baseball too, by another large margin. That undersells it; they’re going...

Any conversation about the best hitters in baseball in 2026 should begin with the two MVP frontrunners, Yordan Alvarez and Pete Crow-Armstrong. It probably includes some of the game's dynamic young stars, like Junior Caminero and James Wood, as well as the generational talents slugging their way to Cooperstown, like...

In his 16th big league season, 37-year-old Chris Sale may be writing the finest chapter of his storied career. Eight days ago, Sale authored one of his best games ever, blanking the Dodgers in a complete-game shutout. Sale struck out 11 hitters -- his 95th career game with double-digit strikeouts,...

Tyler Glasnow needed just two starts to remind everyone the sort of weapon he can be for the Dodgers in October. The L.A. right-hander completed seven innings of one-run ball in a breezy 6-1 victory on Sunday, his second outing since returning from a three-and-a-half month stint on the IL...

Nolan McLean, the prized right-hander known for generating outlier horizontal movement and spinning the baseball at absurd levels, has lost his sweeper. And no one is quite sure where it went. “It’s a little tricky whenever your pitch doesn’t move like you’re used to,” McLean said recently inside the Mets’...

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There’s been a mistake, we think, in the conversation around the National League Rookie of the Year voting, which requires ballots to be submitted in just four more weeks. It’s long been seen as a two-horse race between JJ Wetherholt of the Cardinals and Sal Stewart of the Reds, and...

Only four teams in the Majors have scored more runs than the Brewers have, and it’s tight enough that the Brewers might end up with a top-3 run-scoring offense in baseball by the end of the year. At the same time, every team has outhomered the Brewers, who have a...

Kodai Senga has the stuff -- and maybe even the moxie -- to succeed as a late-game leverage reliever for the Mets. Did anyone have that on their bingo card? Senga carried a 9.09 ERA and an 0-7 record into July, having allowed more earned runs (33) than innings pitched...