Offensive outbursts -- and 1 blazing fastball -- highlight wild week of stats
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (Aug. 30-Sept. 5).
What a duo: Aaron Judge finished August with 12 home runs and 25 walks while his teammate, Juan Soto, had 10 homers and 20 free passes. They became just the third duo with...
Are we witnessing the best non-MVP season ever?
Bobby Witt Jr. is probably not going to win this year's American League MVP Award. Let’s get that out of the way right up front.
That’s because no matter how great his season is – and it is great, already the best season in the entire history of the Royals,...
Bobby Witt Jr.
Back-to-backs and Ohtani's 40-40 vision highlight stats of the week
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (Aug. 23-29).
Going back-to-back: On Sunday, Juan Soto and Aaron Judge hit back-to-back home runs for the sixth time this season. That’s tied with Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira in 2009 for the most times hitting...
The switch-hitter headed for a quiet 40-HR season
The Orioles have gone through a laundry list of changes since the winter of 2016, from ownership on down. They also endured a lengthy rebuild, during which they turned over nearly the entire roster and stockpiled an impressive collection of young talent that has ushered in a new era of...
Anthony Santander
The MVP races may be tighter than you think
With approximately 80% of the 2024 season in the books, we have a pretty good idea of how the major award races are going to shape up.
Both Cy Youngs have seemingly clear leaders, with lefties Chris Sale (NL) and Tarik Skubal (AL) the obvious front-runners in each league. Both...
Shohei Ohtani
Marcell Ozuna
Francisco Lindor
Bobby Witt Jr.
Aaron Judge
Elly De La Cruz
Let's build the best 5-tool player in baseball
The five-tool player is the golden ideal of a baseball player: the player who can do everything.
The classic five tools -- contact hitting, power, speed, glove and arm -- have been around for decades, and while rare, five-tool superstars have existed in every MLB era, from Willie Mays to...
Luis Arraez
Aaron Judge
Elly De La Cruz
Bobby Witt Jr.
Oneil Cruz
A superstar's second-half surge is flying under the radar
No one can deny 2024 just hasn’t been the Blue Jays’ year.
It’s been a down season (marred by injury) for star shortstop Bo Bichette and a tough year for the rotation and bullpen, too. Toronto fell below .500 for good on April 30, and a Trade Deadline sale that...
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Plenty of historic feats in a jam-packed stats of the week
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (Aug. 16-22).
Happy Hollidays: Jackson Holliday registered his first career four-hit game on Friday. At 20 years and 256 days old, Holliday became the fifth-youngest player in Orioles/Browns franchise history with a four-hit game, older than...
The most feared hitter in the game may be one you're overlooking
It feels more than a little odd to say that Yordan Alvarez is underrated, because he’s an AL Rookie of the Year Award winner (2019), a three-time All-Star, and the owner of a career OPS+ of 165 -- which is a top-5 mark through age 27 in the integrated era,...
Yordan Alvarez
Joyce clocks 104.8 mph(!) on radar gun en route to striking out Witt
KANSAS CITY -- It’s almost impossible to make Bobby Witt Jr. look lost at the plate.
The American League leader in hits (177) and batting average (.352) has been a menace to opposing pitching all season long in his quest for an AL MVP.
But Ben Joyce had other plans....
Ben Joyce
