The relative unknown pushing his way into the NL MVP conversation
Geraldo Perdomo has flown under the radar all season, but his second-half surge is demanding attention -- from fans and National League MVP voters alike.
The D-backs shortstop has quietly emerged as one of the best players in baseball, contributing across the board for an Arizona team that finds itself...
Geraldo Perdomo
Dodgers may have fix for leaky bullpen: MLB's best rotation
The 2024 Dodgers famously won the World Series in spite of their pitching, not because of it. Last year’s group had a 4.50 October ERA, one of the highest marks of any Series-winning teams ever, and you probably remember the various mound contortions they had to go through just to...
Blake Snell
Shohei Ohtani
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Roki Sasaki
Emmet Sheehan
Tyler Glasnow
Clayton Kershaw
Peak Yordan is back just in time for the Astros
Yordan Alvarez is back and looking better than ever.
In what was looking like a potentially lost year, Alvarez returned on Aug. 26 after missing nearly four months due to a hand injury. Since returning, Alvarez has a .386/.471/.596 slash line in 68 plate appearances with three home runs, 10...
Yordan Alvarez
Breaking down Mookie's ridiculous hot streak by the numbers
The Mookie Betts you know and love is back.
Betts is out of his summer doldrums. Over the last month and change, the Dodgers superstar has turned back into, well, a Dodgers superstar.
As Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the other day: "He looks like Mookie."
On Aug. 4, Betts...
Mookie Betts
Can Raleigh reach 60-homer plateau? Here's his path
Cal Raleigh still has targets left to hit, and none of them will carry more resonance than the one that wouldn't actually break any kind of record. We’re talking about 60 homers, because even though that won’t be 73 (Barry Bonds’s single-season record from 2001) or 62 (Aaron Judge’s American...
Cal Raleigh
Yes, Kurtz really is having one of the best debuts you've ever seen
You know Nick Kurtz’s name because two months into his rookie year, he put up one of the greatest single games the sport has ever seen. On July 26, he became the first rookie ever to put up a four-homer game, in the midst of going 6-for-6 against the Astros,...
Nick Kurtz
How a new arm angle unlocked the best version of Luzardo for stretch run
This story was excerpted from the Phillies Beat newsletter, with MLB.com's Jared Greenspan writing this version. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox....
Jesús Luzardo
How Soto solved those RISP problems at just the right time
Three months ago, we dug into Juan Soto’s slow start, trying our best to actually provide analysis without just repeating, “Knock it off, he’s Juan Soto, the underlying stats are all fine, he’s going to be fine,” a few dozen times in a row.
As it turns out: He was...
Juan Soto
Mets' 2 star pitching prospects have unique -- and elite -- stuff
Together, Jonah Tong and Nolan McLean cover every point on the compass.
The Mets' two phenoms are opposites in how they pitch. But in the New York rotation, they complement each other perfectly. Tong and McLean pitch in all four directions: Tong, north and south; McLean, east and west.
It's...
Jonah Tong
Nolan McLean
He's emerged as a slugger ... but don't forget about Caminero's defense
This story was excerpted from Adam Berry’s Rays Beat newsletter. Mike Petriello is pinch-hitting this week. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox....
Junior Caminero
