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Well, that didn’t take long — after Didier Fuentes saved the bullpen with his efforts in a loss to the Royals, he’s going down for a fresh arm in Martin Perez: Fuentes looked quite good against the Royals, striking out four and walking one in four frames of lower-leverage work. The Braves may have him […]
One of the most consistent storylines in the Kansas City Royals world this spring was about their closer, Carlos Estévez. Looking out of sorts for the duration of Spring Training, Estévez threw an uneven five innings where he walked more batters than he struck out and gave up three home runs and four runs overall. […]
After taking the series against Minnesota, the Orioles will continue their opening homestand with three games against the Rangers. Texas will enter the series after a rollercoaster start to the 2026 season. Star pitcher Jacob deGrom was set to start the second game of the season before being scratched due to neck soreness. The Rangers […]
Good morning! An incredible outing last night from starter Emerson Hancock led the Mariners to an 8-0 win over the Cleveland Guardians to wrap up their first series of 2026. Hancock recorded nine strikeouts over six innings with no hits, joining only Felix on the day of his perfect game as the only Mariners to […]
Team news [SI] What D-backs Brutal Dodger Stadium Sweep Told Us — And What it Didn’t – Surprisingly enough, the D-backs’ bullpen has not been as poor as one might think. Outside of the blowup inning by Taylor Clarke in game one, the D-backs relief corps gave up three runs in 10 innings — certainly […]
(3-0) Memphis Redbirds 6, (0-3) Gwinnett Stripers 5 Box Score The Stripers fell to 0-3 on the season with a late loss to the Memphis Redbirds. Elieser Hernández made his first start of the season and immediately ran into trouble – allowing four runs to score in the games first two innings with some untimely […]
A few times each year, a series happens and I wonder why I do all of this. On some level, I mean recapping these games. But on other levels, it is even just being a fan. Baseball lends itself to so many disappointments. In 42 years of watching this team, I’ve followed so many stupid […]
Coming off a series victory in their opening weekend in front of the Flushing Faithful, the Mets (2-1) look to keep bring that same energy on the road as they face the Cardinals (2-1). New York took four of six from St. Louis in 2025, including a sweep at Citi Field in April. They won […]
It’s a long season, and it would appear from the very small sample size of games (three!) that Chad Tracy and Dan DeLucia are making a concerted effort to limit the workload of the starters — at least with respect to this opening series with the Syracuse Mets. In the season opener, Jake Bennett threw […]
The Washington Nationals have a new superstar, and his name is Joey Wiemer. Okay, that might be a bit much, but the outfielder has made quite the first impression for Nats fans. In his 8 plate appearances this season, Joey Wiemer has not gotten out. He is a different kind of locked in right now, […]
James Tibbs III capped an incredible debut series in Triple-A with two home runs and a double, driving in five runs in the Oklahoma City Comets’ second straight romp, 13-4 over the Albuquerque Isotopes (Rockies). Coming off a strong first spring training with the Dodgers, Tibbs on Sunday hit a solo home run in the […]
The Orioles have unveiled a new slogan/marketing motto for this season: Fly different. Pedantic people among us will observe right away that this is a grammatically-incorrect pair of words. It is rather unlikely that this minor sin against language will have any impact on the on-field product. Grammar aside, this year does need to be […]
The San Diego Padres announced prior to the start of Opening Day that starter Yu Darvish was going to be added to the Restricted List. The move meant Darvish would remain in the San Diego organization, could rehab with the medical staff, but would not be required to follow a certain program or schedule given […]
Another win they probably shouldn't have. The kids are doing the thing—for better or worse.
The boys are back in town! The Royals come home from their season-opening series in Atlanta to begin the home portion of their schedule. They will host the Twins for a three-game set, beginning on Monday, March 30 at 3:10 CT. Here is what you need to know! Heading out to the K today? Parking […]
If you haven’t gotten a chance to look at the lineup projections, I posted those on Friday. What I am doing is demonstrating over a more extended period of time of how I arrived at my season projection of 85-77. I noticed two things right off the bat. First, I had the worst record projection […]
Good morning. Shawn McFarland checks out what we learned about the American League West-leading Texas Rangers during their first series of the season, a series win in Philadelphia. Kennedi Landry writes that MacKenzie Gore’s debut with Texas went swimmingly as the Rangers took the opening series from the Phillies in a Sunday blowout. McFarland writes […]
Man, I wish I never had to talk about this again. But, y’know, I do, apparently. Also, it makes easy fodder for a daily question post. If you haven’t, you should peruse this page: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/drag-dashboard. There’s not a lot there. I’ll replicate the top chart here: Each dot is an average of the day’s readings […]
It’s Monday, and March Madness is still going strong, plus New Mexico is still in the NIT. Also, many Mountain West teams are going through spring practices. Check out our original coverage and what we can find from the World Wide Web below. Initial 2026 SP+ Rankings Bill Connelly debuts his initial projections for next […]
It was yet another crazy week in Mountain West baseball. The top-seeded Falcons got off to a strong start, then fell apart in Texas. SDSU and Nevada took care of business on the road, pushing the notion that home turf might not matter as much as it does in a sport like men’s basketball. And […]
One weekend of baseball is not enough to tell you much of anything about your favorite team. It’s a big sample size sport and we just don’t have much data yet on the 2026 season. Some players on big league rosters haven’t even seen game action yet. So any sort of good or bad vibes […]
Baseball takes series against UC Santa Barbara Softball takes series against Northwestern Lacrosse falls to Michigan Basketball Lands Former Arizona State Sun Devils Recruit Highlight of the Day: 2025 Malik Benson Highlights
Happy Monday, everyone. It was a fine weekend on the diamonds, as softball laid waste to an overmatched NDSU squad and baseball swept previously 5th-ranked Auburn. The baseball thing is particularly amusing as Auburn fans had latched onto that program as the last hope for what has been a disastrous school year for their athletic […]
Back-to-back one-run victories, including a walk-off victory in extra innings on Saturday, enabled the TCU baseball team to secure a Big 12 Conference sweep against Texas Tech at Lupton Stadium over the weekend. It’s the first Big 12 sweep of the season for the Horned Frogs (17-10), who moved one game above the .500 mark […]
Cal Quantrill started for Round Rock on Sunday and had a difficult outing, allowing seven runs in two innings, striking out three and walking four. Patrick Murphy threw a shutout inning. Ryan Brasier struck out one in 1.1 scoreless innings. Josh Sborz allowed a solo homer in 1.2 IP, striking out two. Luis Curvelo struck […]