“We just want to win,” said two-time All-Star closer Liam Hendriks upon being asked how the White Sox bullpen would work with the addition of eight-time All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel, acquired from the Cubs on July 30, as the club attempted to defuse any notion of a closer controversy. The...

Joey Gallo and Anthony Rizzo have each been traded to the Yankees, and it is not at all hard to see why. Gallo, who isn’t a free agent until after 2022, is a 27-year-old two-time All-Star who is having a fantastic year, thanks to the .379 OBP and .490 slugging...

The National League is rife with pitching this season -- take a look at almost any contending team, and there’s probably a starter among the league leaders in one stat category or another. For much of the beginning of the season, Jacob deGrom seemed like a lock for the NL...

With grand apologies to the daily incredible feats of Shohei Ohtani, we have to at least raise the possibility that he might not end up being the most amazing story of the year. For that, we might need to look a little further up the West Coast to San Francisco,...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Blue Jays went blow for blow with the Red Sox on Wednesday night in Buffalo, but the finale of their Sahlen Field residency was another dose of reality from an American League East rival. With a 7-4 loss on the heels of Monday’s 13-4 blowout, the...

DETROIT -- On Monday night, manager Chris Woodward shook Joey Gallo’s hand after a rough night at the ballpark in which the Rangers fell, 14-0, in the opener of a four-game set at Comerica Park, extending the team’s losing streak to four games coming out of the All-Star break. Woodward...

Think about the basic qualities that define Jacob deGrom's dominance: huge velocity gains, triple-digit heat even late into games, a wipeout slider, heavy reliance on that overpowering fastball-slider combo. There's another pitcher following the deGrom blueprint … but from the left side. Carlos Rodón. Rodón's fastball is faster than ever....

Juan Soto put on a show in his first-round Home Run Derby matchup against Shohei Ohtani on Monday, and that was just the beginning of what is setting up to be a monster second half for the Nationals’ young star. At just 22 years old, in his fourth Major League...

How far will it fly? That’s been the question on everyone’s mind since the Home Run Derby debuted at the Metrodome in 1985. Of course, we want to see who wins. But there’s also the sheer, jaw-dropping spectacle of a baseball that seems to shake off the constraints of gravity...

Allow us to present a red-hot prediction ahead of Monday’s T-Mobile Home Run Derby in Denver: Shohei Ohtani is going to make it to the finals. That’s not just because we want him to (we do), or because it would be an incredible capper on what’s already been one of...