What's behind Goldschmidt's unexpected rebound season?
Paul Goldschmidt is a potential future Hall of Famer, and he’s having a fantastic season for the Yankees. Nothing unusual about that, except that he spent the final four months of last season – at age 38, no less – looking like the end of the road had come.
Take...
Paul Goldschmidt
Back in Reds lineup, Elly De La Cruz is an improved right-handed hitter
The switch-hitting Elly De La Cruz has said in the past that he is a natural right-handed hitter. In his fourth Major League season, he is finally looking like one.
Off the bat, we are writing about De La Cruz because he is healthy again, and that is what matters...
Elly De La Cruz
There's a simple reason why Skubal may not get traded
“The reality of the situation is, we need to play better baseball,” Tigers ace Tarik Skubal told the Detroit News last week, adding that “... or else come the \[Trade\] Deadline, you give the front office an option to reassess where this team is.”
Quite right. The sharks are already...
Tarik Skubal
Meet two young hitting stars who might have even better gloves
Can you name the best infield defender in baseball?
If you guessed Bobby Witt Jr., you'd be correct. The Royals shortstop is the defending Platinum Glove Award winner in the American League, and he's been sublime yet again this season, leading all infielders in outs above average (+16) and fielding...
Colson Montgomery
JJ Wetherholt
Fernando Tatis Jr. is starting to look more like himself -- here's why
Slowly, Fernando Tatis Jr. is starting to look like himself again.
It’s not just because he literally looks like his old self in the batter’s box -- though we’ll get to that in a moment. Really, it’s that Tatis is hitting. That’s what matters. Since May 18, Tatis has a...
Fernando Tatis Jr.
These two Rays relievers rely on changeups. But they're nothing alike
You can find two of the best changeups in baseball lurking at the backend of the Rays bullpen. And they couldn't be any more different.
Bryan Baker is a strong candidate to represent Tampa Bay in Philadelphia at next month's All-Star Game thanks in part to his sterling changeup, which...
New pitch has Cease in the Cy Young conversation
Dylan Cease throws a changeup nowadays and, technically, that's not anything new. The Blue Jays right-hander threw 37 changeups with the Padres last season.
But that offering was more of a "Bugs Bunny" pitch, a term first coined by Ethan Katz, Cease's former pitching coach with the White Sox. Last...
Dylan Cease
Best free-agent signing of the year? Belli making his case
The Yankees went deep into the offseason before finally re-signing Cody Bellinger in late January. Five months later, Bellinger is the last man standing in New York’s high-powered outfield -- and one of the most important free-agent signings any team made last winter....
Cody Bellinger
Cade Smith's fastball isn't as good this year -- but his splitter is elite
This story was excerpted from Tim Stebbins' Guardians Beat newsletter, with MLB.com's Jared Greenspan filling in for this edition. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox....
Cade Smith
He's the best starter in baseball whose name you might not even know
On Wednesday night, Shohei Ohtani will toe the rubber at Dodger Stadium sporting a miniscule 1.06 ERA.
Ohtani, who is making a legitimate Cy Young Award case in 2026, owns an MLB-best 2.62 ERA since 2021 among the 99 pitchers with at least 500 innings. While that news is hardly...
Drew Rasmussen
