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.
Reason for optimism: The Braves have the best lineup in baseball one to nine, with athleticism, power
PHILADELPHIA – Am Montagabend gab es im 10. Inning zwei Outs, als Bryce Harper als potenzieller Unentschieden in den Spielkreis kam. Ersatzfänger Garrett Stubbs war im Unterstand und er fand Whit Merrifield, einen der wenigen Neuen in diesem Phillies-Team.
„Mann“, sagte Stubbs, „das wirst du dir unbedingt ansehen wollen.“
Oft bleibt die Zeit im Citizens Bank Park stehen, wenn Harper schlägt. Es ist eine ungerechtfertigte Erwartung in einem Sport, wenn die Größten in 30 Prozent der Fälle erfolgreich sind. Das
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
Der Fantasy-Baseball-Analyst Dalton Del Don bietet eine Reihe davon an Draft-Bust-Kandidaten pro Position – Als nächstes kommen die Outfielder.
Robert ist einer der besten Fantasy-Hitter, wenn er gesund ist, aber seine Dienste kosten ihn jetzt einen Top-30-Pick aus der ersten Saison, in der er während seiner Karriere 100 gespielte Spiele erreichte. Er hat sich Ende der letzten Saison seinen MCL verstaucht, und obwohl Robert bis 2024 völlig gesund sein sollte, ist dies ein weiterer Grund zur Verbesserung eine lange Liste
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
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
Zack Wheeler bleibt in Philadelphia, nachdem er eine rekordverdächtige Vertragsverlängerung bei den Phillies unterzeichnet hat.
Am Montag bestätigte die New York Post, dass der 33-jährige Wheeler eine dreijährige Vertragsverlängerung im Wert von 126 Millionen US-Dollar unterzeichnet hat. Der neue Vertrag bedeutet, dass der Pitcher diesen Herbst kein Free Agent sein wird.
Sein neuer Vertrag beginnt mit der MLB-Saison 2025 und hält
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
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
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
