Thomas Harrigan
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Fantasy rankings: Get ready for drafts
Fantasy baseball draft season is upon us! To help you prepare, we’ve gone and ranked the Top 300 players, in terms of fantasy value, for 2023. (Steamer projections included.) Coming in at No. 1? Trea Turner, now with the Phillies after signing an 11-year, $300 million deal in free agency. → Read More
Ranking the greatest bat flips in history
The beauty of the bat flip. It's an art form, and when you combine a bat flip artist's creativity with a momentous swing of the bat, the byproduct is sensational. And it's all magnified exponentially in the postseason. Here's a look at the greatest bat flips in baseball history. → Read More
Kluber agrees to one-year deal with Red Sox (source)
Two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber has agreed to a one-year, $10 million contract with the Red Sox, a source told MLB.com insider Mark Feinsand. The team has not confirmed the deal, which has a club option for $11 million and was originally reported by ESPN's Jeff Passan. After → Read More
Giants agree to 3-year deal with lefty reliever Rogers (source)
The Giants have agreed to a three-year $33 million contract with left-handed pitcher Taylor Rogers pending a physical, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand on Friday. The team has not confirmed the deal The deal will reunite Rogers with his twin brother, Tyler, who has pitched for the Giants since → Read More
Astros bringing back Brantley on 1-year deal (source)
Michael Brantley will be back with the Astros next season after agreeing to a one-year, $12 million deal with the club, a source told MLB.com's Mark Feinsand on Sunday. The deal will include $4 million in incentives. The team has not confirmed the move. One of MLB’s best contact hitters, → Read More
Heaney heading to Rangers on 2-year deal (source)
After making a splash by landing Jacob deGrom over the weekend, it appears the Rangers aren't slowing down when it comes to adding rotation pieces. Left-hander Andrew Heaney is heading to Texas on a two-year with an opt-out after 2023, a source tells MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. Per MLB Network insider → Read More
White Sox bolster rotation with Clevinger (source)
The White Sox are set to sign right-hander Mike Clevinger to a free-agent deal, a source tells MLB.com's Scott Merkin. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic was the first to report the signing, which is pending a physical. Chicago has yet to confirm the report, and the terms of the deal → Read More
Astros-Phillies WS matchup features historic win disparity
The 2022 World Series will feature a matchup of historic proportions. With the 106-win Astros taking on the 87-win Phillies, the 118th Fall Classic will have the second-largest win disparity of all time between World Series opponents. The only matchup with a wider gap came in 1906, when the 116-win → Read More
The best comeback attempts from 3-0 holes in playoffs
Trying to come back from a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven postseason series -- as the Yankees now are in the ALCS against the Astros \-\- is a daunting task. In fact, most comeback attempts end without much drama. Case in point: In AL/NL history, we’ve seen 39 previous teams → Read More
Wild Card Series game times announced
Mark your calendars. The race to crown the next World Series champion will begin Friday, when the 2022 MLB Postseason gets underway. → Read More
Where do Cy races stand with time running out?
There’s still time for the Cy Young races to flip, but both front-runners have given themselves some breathing room as we near the end of the regular season. Last week saw the Astros’ Justin Verlander and the Marlins’ Sandy Alcantara cement their cases for the top spot in the American → Read More
LLWS batter hugs pitcher after HBP to helmet in touching moment
Acts of sportsmanship are one of the best parts of the Little League World Series, helping to remind us all what baseball is about at its purest form. Tuesday’s Southwest Region championship game provided a touching moment between opponents following a scary scene on the field in the bottom of → Read More
Padres agree to acquire Soto, Bell from Nats (source)
The Padres have built their roster, one blockbuster after another, and general manager A.J. Preller might've just pulled off his biggest coup yet. He’s finalizing a deal to make Juan Soto a San Diego Padre. In one of the sport’s most monumental trades in recent memory, the Padres are set → Read More
New leader emerges in latest ROY poll
In MLB.com’s second Rookie of the Year Award poll of 2022, we have a new leader in a tight American League race, while the National League favorite is running well ahead of the rest of the field. Once again, voters were asked to rank their top five Rookie of the → Read More
Cy Young poll sees shakeup at No. 1
The results from MLB.com’s second Cy Young Award poll of the season are in, and there’s been significant turnover at the top. We have a new leader in both the American League and the National League, neither of whom finished higher than third when voters weighed in on the Cy → Read More
Who are the early Rookie of the Year frontrunners?
A large number of rookies have made a strong first impression this season, so much so that 37 players received a mention in our first Rookie of the Year Award poll of 2022. Voters were asked to rank their top five Rookie of the Year candidates in each league based → Read More
Who are the early Cy Young favorites?
With so many pitchers putting up dominant results early on, picking the Cy Young Award frontrunners is no easy task, but we asked a panel of MLB.com voters to do just that. In our first Cy Young poll of the season, 70 participants submitted their top five Cy candidates in → Read More
Who are the MVP frontrunners so far?
Yes, it's only May. But if you're going to win an MVP Award, it's important to have a strong start to the season. We took a poll at MLB.com to see which players are viewed as frontrunners for each league's MVP Award in 2022, based on their production so far → Read More
Don't sleep on these 6 teams as playoff contenders
Most of the top free agents are off the board, so we have a good sense of how each team is going to look when the regular season begins on April 7. Based on FanGraphs’ projected standings, a number of clubs are expected to be significantly better than they were → Read More
MVP poll: AL race tightens; new NL leader
A month ago, it looked as though both MVP Award races were close to being decided. But with less than two weeks remaining in the regular season, the National League race has a new frontrunner, while the American League race has tightened, at least according to our latest MVP poll. → Read More