Christian Yelich knew this was a possibility. Speaking about the unique challenges of a shortened 2020 season when the Brewers gathered for Summer Camp a month ago, he made a prediction. “You’re going to see really good players have really bad years,” Yelich said, via MLB.com Brewers reporter Adam McCalvy....

In December 2017, the Cubs signed pitcher Tyler Chatwood to a three-year, $38 million contract. Unlike many lucrative free agent deals, it was an investment not in what Chatwood had done up to that point -- while spending much of his career at Coors Field -- but in what he...

Here's a really cool story about pitch design in the social media age. It's the story of how a Major League pitcher learned a nasty new pitch … after the season already started ... from Twitter. Jake Diekman throws a slider. It's generally been the same slider: good down-breaking action,...

Rangers right-hander Lance Lynn isn’t flashy. He doesn’t have triple-digit heat, or a GIF-worthy breaking ball. And he’s been around long enough that he was teammates with Albert Pujols in St. Louis. But the bearded veteran became a top-of-the-rotation force at age 32 last season, and he’s showing no signs...

Aaron Judge exists in Major League Baseball to mercilessly punish baseballs, and he's doing exactly that. The Yankee right fielder has a homer in five consecutive games \-\- six total in that span -- leaving him three short of tying the Major League record of eight consecutive games with a...

The Reds are one of the top strikeout pitching staffs in the Major Leagues right now. They're one of four teams, along with the Indians, Rays and D-backs, to have already reached the 100-K mark in 2020. But there's one big way the Cincinnati staff stands out: spin. Reds pitchers...

Joey Votto isn't striking out anymore. That's a good thing. It's also a bad thing, maybe. Things can be more than one thing, you know? Let's take a step back to 2019, when Votto set full-season career lows in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage while adding a career-high...

It’s not easy, exactly, to forget about Corey Seager. But you’d be forgiven if your gaze wandered over the past couple of years. When he lost a season to Tommy John surgery and took a backseat to Cody Bellinger & Co. once he returned, his bat a little quieter and...

Kyle Lewis knows how to make an entrance. The Mariners’ No. 10 prospect showed that last September, when he homered in each of his first three Major League games, and six of his first 10. He is showing it again early in the 2020 season. After a power-packed Summer Camp,...

There was a time, not that long ago, when a late-July White Sox game would have been easy to overlook. But after back-and-forth games against the “Bomba Squad” Twins and the Indians, the South Siders are rising up the “must-watch-on-MLB.TV” list -- and their newest star is a big reason...