Here's why a Japanese slugger is one of the most intriguing free agents
A year ago, when the news first broke that Munetaka Murakami was likely headed to the Major Leagues in 2026, the Japanese slugger was one of the great enigmas of the baseball world.
Murakami had Ruthian power … and Joey Gallo-esque strikeout problems. He had superstar upside, and one of...
Munetaka Murakami
Ranking all 30 MLB rosters as the offseason gets going
Where does each team start the 2025-26 offseason? It’s not necessarily the exact same place where they ended the 2025 regular season (or postseason).
Even though it’s only been a few days since the conclusion of a thrilling World Series, roster machinations are already in full swing. Players have become...
The top 5 catches of Rafaela's Gold Glove season
Ceddanne Rafaela just won his first career Gold Glove Award, and it's because he made plays like the ones we're about to show you.
We went back and watched all of Rafaela's toughest catches, using Statcast's catch probability as a loose guideline, to find the Red Sox center fielder's very...
Ceddanne Rafaela
Who will receive -- and accept -- a qualifying offer?
The 2025 World Series only just ended, but baseball doesn't really stop. The 2026 MLB season starts immediately, believe it or not, with decisions to be made about which free agents will receive a qualifying offer – and which, of those who do, will choose to accept or reject it....
Best Game 7 ever? There is a compelling case
Game 7 of the 2025 World Series was one of the wildest, and to some extent that’s expressed as easily as “a deciding World Series game went to extra innings,” which had happened just twice before in baseball history. When you’re talking about things like “was that the best Game...
How Mookie's swing has changed in the World Series
Through five games of the World Series, the Dodgers’ lineup has sputtered out, hitting just .201/.296/.354, and there’s blame to be assigned up and down the order – even to Shohei Ohtani, who, when not reaching base nine times in Game 3, has just two hits and two walks in...
Mookie Betts
Why Edman hit righty vs. Yesavage in WS ... but lefty vs. Gausman
The switch-hitter's whole reason to exist is to neutralize the pitcher's platoon advantage.
Lefty pitcher … a switch-hitter bats righty. Righty pitcher … he bats lefty. It's one of the most fundamental strategies of baseball. You switch-hit to gain the best matchup no matter who's on the mound.
But what...
Tommy Edman
Trey Yesavage
Kevin Gausman
The secret to Yamamoto's playoff complete games
A starting pitcher throwing one complete game in the postseason is rare enough in this day and age … forget two … forget two in a row.
But Yoshinobu Yamamoto and his rubber arm -- the arm that was ready to pitch in the 19th inning on one day of...
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The 6 biggest decisions facing the World Series managers
The biggest names in the 2025 World Series need no introduction, and really don’t even need to be identified by their full name – merely saying “Shohei, Vladdy, Mookie, and Mad Max” tells you about all you need to know. But as we’ve long learned by now, the main characters...
Dave Roberts
John Schneider
Why this will be the World Series of the splitter
You're going to see a kaleidoscope of the nastiest pitches in baseball when the Blue Jays and Dodgers face off in the World Series. But you're going to see one pitch in particular more than you ever have.
This is going to be the World Series of the splitter.
For...
Trey Yesavage
Kevin Gausman
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Shohei Ohtani
Roki Sasaki
