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It’s December now. The cold days are ahead of us, the dreary ending to the baseball season behind us. Soon, we’ll have the hot stove set aflame with rumors from the Winter Meetings, things that will occupy us for days on end. For now, we have little. Except mailbag questions! Those are always fun! On […]
‘Tis the season for trade rumors, which are more fun than free agency rumors, IMO, because they’re about more than just money. And here’s one I didn’t see coming: the Diamondbacks are reportedly open to trading all-star second baseman Ketel Marte, with the Red Sox considered to be “on the radar.” The 32-year-old Marte, who […]
Today in our Season In Review series we take a look at one of the better pitching prospects in the organization and his first taste of the big leagues. Right-handed starter Mason Barnett has a high ceiling and could be a big contributor to a future A’s playoff squad, and we finally got to see […]
The Cincinnati Reds play in one of the smaller markets in all of Major League Baseball, something COO Phil Castellini will effectively tell you whilst introducing himself. Considering that for most of the last three decades the team itself has been terrible on the field, they’re also one perennially one of the lower-attended teams during […]
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 […]
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...
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Mariners news… Around the league…
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 […]