Matt Martell is off today to jump into a much-deserved long weekend for Memorial Day. Emma Baccellieri has you covered in his stead. There is a line that former ESPN writer Sam Miller used to say, in podcasts and in conversation, about when you could trust small-sample-size noise had disappeared from baseball statistics at the … Read more
Joe Panik’s game-changing double play in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series Al Tielemans / Sports Illustrated For nearly as long as I can remember, whenever anyone asked me who was my favorite baseball player, I said Jorge Posada. He was the player I wanted to emulate from the time I was little. Like … Read more
Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports In 2019, Gleyber Torres was a second-year player who made his second All-Star team and finished the season with 38 home runs. He was the Yankees’ breakout star in that postseason, leading the team with a 1,078 OPS in nine playoff games. He was just 22 years old, and … Read more
AP Photo / Morry Gash First, there were signs of life. In the April 25 edition of our MLB Power Rankings, Will Laws wrote about Christian Yelich’s rough start to the season in his blurb for the Brewers. At the time, Yelich had a .192 / .302 / .327 slash line and just one home … Read more
Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports; Reese Strickland / USA TODAY Sports Six days before Opening Day, the Dodgers and White Sox agreed to a trade that sends closer Craig Kimbrel to Los Angeles for outfielder AJ Pollock. The deal, which was first reported by MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand, is a surprising one because of the … Read more