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It was another relative runaway this round, as Peyton Pallette became the first relief pitcher to advance. His success, while a bigger win than No. 17 George Wolkow’s just previously, came with a similar share: 24 of 63 (38%) votes: This was Pallette’s 12th ballot. Before not placing in our Vote in 2025, the righthander […]
From South Side Sox | 3 days ago | 0 reads
You may have heard this before, but I think it’s worth pointing out every offseason, especially ahead of much of the Chicago Cubs’ spending. The Collective Bargaining Agreement, as part of its efforts to ensure competitive balance across the league – which is a good and legitimate goal – offers up to smaller-market teams a freebie draft pick each year, aptly called a Competitive Balance Pick. Those picks were just assigned today as follows: Round A (after the first round): Gua...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Earlier this year, April 16 to be specific, Spencer Strider made a long-awaited return to the mound after missing nearly the entirety of the 2024 season due to surgery on his elbow. Considering how poor of a start the Braves got off to in 2025, his return was truly a sight for sore eyes and […]
From Talking Chop | 3 days ago | 1 read
The baseball free agent signing frenzy hasn’t taken off yet. After the Blue Jays signed Dylan Cease for seven years and $210 million, which seems like an overpay, there are a few free agents who could help the Royals. Kyle Tucker, Bo Bichette, and Alex Bregman are among the remaining big names. There are a […]
From Royals Review | 3 days ago | 1 read
There are few things more cruel in professional sports than a promising player getting injured. It’s part of the game, but it’s demoralizing for a multitude of reasons. While Clarke Schmidt doesn’t fit the billing of a burgeoning superstar or promising rookie that suffers a long-term injury, he was emerging as an above-average, consistent homegrown […]
From Pinstripe Alley | 3 days ago | 0 reads
There are few things more cruel in professional sports than a promising player getting injured. It’s part of the game, but it’s demoralizing for a multitude of reasons. While Clarke Schmidt doesn’t fit the billing of a burgeoning superstar or promising rookie that suffers a long-term injury, he was emerging as an above-average, consistent homegrown […]
From Pinstripe Alley | 3 days ago | 0 reads
The Lookies are Lookout Landing’s most prestigious awards. They are presented annually to honor the Seattle Mariners’ best players, most memorable moments, and goldenest retrievers. The staff collaborated to determine the categories and nominees, and a reader vote was held to determine the winners. The winners were announced and discussed at length on the November […]
From Lookout Landing | 3 days ago | 0 reads
It’s tough to think of a better way to cap off the official start of the holiday season than with a convincing Monday Night win over the New York Giants to move to 11-2. In a league year where every team in the league has some massive flaws, wins are the only thing that matters, […]
From Pats Pulpit | 3 days ago | 1 read
With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025. Today we are looking at pitcher Jon Gray. What a frustrating and disappointing season for the […]
From Lone Star Ball | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Landon Knack’s second major league season saw rougher terrain as he slid further down the Dodgers depth chart, and regression on the mound. Knack had four stints in the majors in 2025, including making the opening day roster for the first two games against the Cubs in Tokyo. He pitched two scoreless innings of relief […]
From True Blue LA | 3 days ago | 1 read
With Adam Fox on LTIR, the Rangers’ blue line just hit crisis mode—can Schneider or Morrow rise, or does Drury have to find outside help?
From Blueshirt Banter | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Major League Baseball has not released its prospect rankings for its 30 teams for the 2026 season. The minor league evaluations will come out before the new season begins and the current rankings came after the trade deadline. Baseball America, the biggest evaluator of baseball prospects, is releasing its new rankings, team by team. They […]
From Gaslamp Ball | 3 days ago | 1 read
There have been rumblings about the Nationals potentially making big moves to shake up their core this offseason. The two names that are mentioned most often as trade candidates are MacKenzie Gore and CJ Abrams. Jeff Passan, the top MLB insider, put both on his most recent trade board and gave some interesting information about […]
From Federal Baseball | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Marcus Jones is one of the most electric players in football, and the New York Giants are the latest team to find out: in the first quarter of their Monday night game in New England, they saw him return a punt 94 yards for a touchdown. The score was Jones’ third of the season after […]
From Pats Pulpit | 3 days ago | 1 read
In 2019, the Phillies traded relatively unknown prospect Curtis Mead to the Rays in exchange for relatively unknown prospect Cristopher Sanchez. Wanting to know as much as I could about this kid at the time, I looked up his minor league stats and was thrilled to see he’d spent time with the Bowling Green Hotrods […]
From The Good Phight | 3 days ago | 0 reads
The reliever market is starting to move after a very slow month of November. The New York Mets got on the ball quickly, adding long-time Brewers closer Devin Williams on Monday, while the Baltimore Orioles signed Ryan Helsley last week after the Tigers had been linked as one of many teams interested in the hard-throwing […]
From Bless You Boys | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Things the Braves love: 1) reunions; 2) relievers with roster flexibility. On Tuesday morning, the Braves were able to, if not outright kill two birds with one stone, at least lightly wound them, or something. Let’s get the main thing out of the way, first: Danny Young had Tommy John Surgery in May, so this […]
From Talking Chop | 3 days ago | 0 reads
1937 It was a deal met with outrage from Detroit fans, as the Tigers sent outfielder Gee Walker, catcher Mike Tresh and third baseman Marv Owen to the White Sox for starting pitcher Vern Kennedy, outfielder Dixie Walker and third baseman Tony Piet. Dixie was still a promising youngster, but put up just 2.8 total […]
From South Side Sox | 3 days ago | 1 read
The 2025 MLB Winter Meetings kick off this weekend in Orlando, Florida. While the General Manager (GM) Meetings often lay the groundwork for deals, there tends to be much more actual activity at the Winter meetings which brings together player agents, team execs, general managers and baseball media from all markets. With just six of […]
From Athletics Nation | 3 days ago | 1 read
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From Lookout Landing | 3 days ago | 1 read
It’s no secret that the Royals need help in their lineup. Most people assume the Royals have the pitching depth to trade from to improve their roster, but there’s some question about that. What if the Royals could make a trade to improve their hitting and, if not improve their pitching, then at least increase […]
From Royals Review | 3 days ago | 0 reads
The offseason is in full swing and the Winter Meetings are about to begin, so it’s time to take another look at the Yankees farm system and consider a new ranking of Baby Bombers on the rise within the organization. There was a lot of movement in 2025, as a few arms made huge strides […]
From Pinstripe Alley | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Welcome to the 2025 edition of Ranking the Rockies, where we take a look back at every player to log playing time for the Rockies in 2025. The purpose of this list is to provide a snapshot of the player in context. The “Ranking” is an organizing principle that’s drawn from Baseball Reference’s WAR (rWAR). […]
From Purple Row | 3 days ago | 1 read
Here is another Twins right-hander (in addition to Joe Ryan, who I profiled in this series last week) who could help the Cubs. It seems clear that the Twins are in rebuild mode and would likely be happy to trade Pablo López. There are caveats with López. He missed quite a bit of time in […]
From Bleed Cubbie Blue | 3 days ago | 0 reads
Diamondbacks News How Devin Williams’ Huge Mets Deal Hurts D-backs’ Closer Pursuit by Alex D’Agostino [SI] Arizona’s hopes to land a down-season discount for any of the top-tier arms available is all but gone, and the continuously-inflating free agent market may force Arizona to turn to bargain signings or the trade market in order to […]
From AZ Snake Pit | 3 days ago | 0 reads