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Reasons for each MLB team to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about the rest of the season
Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve seen enough to identify reasons for optimism and pessimism for all 30 teams.
Is the glass half-empty? Half-full? From those at the top of the MLB power rankings to those at the bottom, every team has reasons for hope and concern in 2024.
NL East
Atlanta Braves
Reason for optimism: The Braves have the best lineup in baseball one to nine, with athleticism, power
MLB-Insider sind „ziemlich besorgt“ über die Zunahme von Armverletzungen bei jungen Top-Startspielern
Matt Blake schickte dem Pitcher der Cleveland Guardians, Shane Bieber, am Wochenende eine versöhnliche Nachricht. Als Mitglied des Spielerentwicklungssystems von Cleveland in den 2010er Jahren unterstützte Blake Biebers Aufstieg vom College-Walk-on zum einstimmigen Cy Young Award-Gewinner der American League im Jahr 2020. Eine Zeit lang repräsentierte Bieber das moderne Modell für die Herstellung eines großen Liga-Ass, ein Spieler, der seinem Körper mehr Stärke, seinem Fastball Schnelligkeit und seinem Offspeed-Pitch mehr Spin verlieh, als er die Ränge aufstieg.
Als Blake seine
MLB offseason grades 2.0 : Which teams passed — and which teams failed
The Athletic’s MLB offseason grades 1.0.
By Tim Britton, Grant Brisbee and Aaron Gleeman
According to a report by an economics professor at Yale University, roughly 80 percent of all grades handed out to undergraduate students last year were As. Too bad for major-league executives, then, that they don’t attend Yale (at least not anymore, in several cases). The grading is going to be harsher here.
The best teachers, of course, are kind enough to allow for revision. We first
Year of the splitter? Once a dark art, the pitch is primed to take over baseball
By Zack Meisel, Cody Stavenhagen and Stephen J. Nesbitt
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A decade ago, on a dusty baseball diamond in Puerto Rico, a veteran pitcher shared with Fernando Cruz the secrets of throwing a splitter, a pitch treated like a black-market product, a dark art best learned in the shadows and deployed at one’s own risk.
Cruz was a converted infielder pitching in winter ball back home and trying to catch on with a major league organization. He couldn’t
2024 MLB ‘Wild-Card Era’ Franchise Rankings: Rangers break into top 10, Cubs fall out
As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings?
See, the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) franchise rankings are not a creation of my fallible mind. They are borne from a tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias formula borrowed from football writer Bob Sturm and tweaked to
Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1
Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s system, and notes on prospects who might appear in the majors this year, or who might be breakout prospects for the 2025 rankings, will appear starting
What we learned from the Baseball Hall of Fame election: Beltré’s big night, Mauer power and more
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball royalty, connected forever to this special stamp of greatness.
Beltré reeled in 95.1 percent of the vote. That’s the same percentage as a guy named Babe Ruth. If he ever needs to impress people at a party over the next 40
Baseball Hall of Fame ballots 2024: The Athletic’s voters explain their selections
Look, we get it.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is a breathtaking idea. It’s a celebration. It’s a history lesson. It’s a pilgrimage. The museum in Cooperstown is home to heroes and memories and the posters on our walls. The very notion can fill a fan with wonder, and actually being there feels like going to church, and the Louvre, and Game 7 of the World Series, all at once.
And so, we care a great deal about who gets
Die Guardians gewinnen den ersten Top-Pick in der Vereinsgeschichte, gefolgt von den Reds und den Rockies
Zehn namhafte MLB-Spieler, die in dieser Offseason gehandelt werden könnten
Die GM-Treffen diese Woche in Scottsdale, Arizona, markierten den Beginn von Handelsgesprächen in der gesamten Liga, da die Teams auch Kontakt mit den Agenten von Spielern knüpften, die jetzt auf dem freien Markt sind. Obwohl die freie Agentur in der Regel im November und Anfang Dezember die MLB-Transaktionen dominiert, scheint es immer ein oder zwei Blockbuster-Transaktionen zu geben. In diesem Jahr werden viele große Namen in Handelsgesprächen diskutiert, aber das bedeutet nicht, dass sie gehandelt werden. Handelsgespräche sind für die