A year of mashed taters: Each team's longest HR of 2025
Happy holidays, baseball fans. As our gift to you, we're back with the tradition we are determined to make happen: our yearly list of every team's longest home run of the season just past.
Admittedly, we always think these lists make for good gifts, but we have a pretty good...
Examining the underrated aspects of Ohtani's offensive greatness
Shohei Ohtani is doing things we’ve never seen on a baseball field before.
That might be an obvious statement for you, the reader, but there’s never a bad time to recount his heroics of recent years. The two-way phenomenon has won three straight MVPs, the latter two coming with the...
Shohei Ohtani
The rare skill set that could carry Rice to stardom in '26
There’s a big reason the Yankees’ offseason shopping list didn’t include a star first baseman. They might already have one in house.
While the spot didn’t officially open up until Paul Goldschmidt reached free agency in November, Ben Rice effectively became the Yankees’ starting first baseman the moment their 2025...
Ben Rice
What do these legends have left in the tank on mound?
One day, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer will likely be first-ballot Hall of Famers. But here’s some free advice for the folks in Cooperstown: Don’t bother prepping those plaques any time soon.
Verlander, who will turn 43 in February, intends to play next season and possibly even beyond that, as...
Justin Verlander
Max Scherzer
Why Murakami presented such a fascinating free-agent case
This story was originally published on Nov. 5, before Munetaka Murakami and the White Sox agreed to a two-year, $34 million deal on Dec. 21....
Munetaka Murakami
How this dominant closer got his groove back this year
Aroldis Chapman looks as dominant as ever, even entering his age-38 season in 2026. But when the Red Sox signed him last winter, he was a little bit of a gamble.
When he joined the Sox, Chapman was coming off a rocky season (for him, at least) and getting into...
Aroldis Chapman
These are the nastiest pitches still on the free-agent market
A bunch of electric pitchers who were free agents are already off the market, whether it's Dylan Cease or Edwin Díaz or Devin Williams. But there are still plenty out there for needy teams -- and those free-agent pitchers throw some nasty pitches.
Let's take a look at some of...
Michael Kopech
Framber Valdez
Chris Bassitt
Taylor Rogers
Zac Gallen
Sean Newcomb
Seranthony Dominguez
Ranger Suárez
He has a career 4.19 ERA but is drawing major trade interest. Here's why
It’s easy to see why starters like the Tigers’ Tarik Skubal and the Brewers’ Freddy Peralta are so widely coveted on the trade market. Skubal may be baseball’s best pitcher, having won back-to-back American League Cy Young Awards. Peralta has struck out 200 or more batters in each of the...
MacKenzie Gore
New year, new looks: Jays covering all angles in building '26 pitching staff
The Blue Jays, who already had baseball’s highest pitching release point in Trey Yesavage, have recently added to the mix submariner extraordinaire Tyler Rogers, who essentially scrapes the ground with his knuckles when he throws. There’s a 5.8-foot gap -- that’s more than one Jose Altuve -- between where Yesavage...
Tyler Rogers
Trey Yesavage
The top 5 catches of PCA's Gold Glove year
Pete Crow-Armstrong makes the impossible look easy in center field, so it's no wonder he took home his first Gold Glove Award last month.
He made too many highlight-reel plays to count this season. But we're going to try our best to pick out his best of the best.
We...
Pete Crow-Armstrong
