Immediately after the Cubs signed Alex Bregman to a five-year, $175M deal on Saturday night, the Nico Hoerner rumors resurfaced. Jeff Passan said it. Keith Law said it. Jon Morosi said it. Media outlets in New York started drumming up the Yankees’ interest. The Giants had been teased. And so on.
Whether we like it or not (we do not), we can’t keep denying the existence of Nico Hoerner trade rumors. And unfortunately, today, they’re getting a little louder, with a more specific note from a...
The Arizona Cardinals continue to do their due diligence as they interview for their next head coach. A new name has appeared, as the team has interviewed Los Angeles Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter. Mintere is a soon to be 43-year old defensive wizard, who has had two impressive seasons as a defensive coordinator in […]
When Atlanta Braves catcher Sean Murphy underwent season-ending surgery last September, there were questions as to how the issue with his hip had gotten so bad without being addressed. Throughout this off-season, Murphy’s availability for Opening Day 2026 was hinted at being in question. This weekend, MLB’s Mark Bowman published an article previewing the Spring […]
I’ve never viewed myself as a Miles Mastrobuoni truther. With all due respect, I’m not sure that many people have. If I started this article by asking if we’re underappreciating Miles Mastrobuoni, I don’t even know if you’d keep reading. The majority of his plate appearances, on the surface, seem to back up these claims. […]
For ten days, Jeff McNeil was the longest-tenured Met. After an offseason purge which saw Brandon Nimmo traded to Texas while Pete Alonso and Edwin Díaz departed in free agency, it appeared for a brief moment that McNeil may have survived to play another season in Queens. But on December 22, the Squirrel was traded […]
Welcome back to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. Next up, a former top prospect. Who is he and where does he come from? He’s old friend Yoan Moncada, […]
Good morning, baseball fans! The San Francisco Giants will be kicking off their 2026 Fan Fest Tour this Saturday, and each Saturday for the rest of the month. The first stop will be San Jose on January 17th, followed by San Ramon on January 24th, and then Sacramento on January 31st. The Open House will […]
It seems like a lifetime ago, but once upon a time, recent Yankee teams of yesteryear trotted out a succession of consistent, even terrifying, offensive threats at first base. Donnie Baseball paved the way for Tino Martinez, who held down the fort admirably during the dynasty years. The last time the Yanks reached the mountaintop, […]
Alfredo Duno took home the honors of being ranked 2nd in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings, and now we move on to the candidates for spot #3. There’s an embedded Google Form with polling that should show up at the bottom of this post, but if you’ve found this through a search engine that strips […]
The Royals announced via press release today that they will be shortening the Kauffman Stadium outfield fences as well as moving them in for the start of the 2026 season. The Royals’ analytics department has performed an analysis over the last three years that has shown that bringing the fences in would have benefited the […]
Chris Suero’s family emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States when he was a child, settling down in the Bronx. He initially attended All Hallows High School, an all-boys Catholic high school in the shadow of Yankee Stadium but took advantage of his Dominican heritage and the rules around signing international players, moving […]
It’s been widely reported that the Phillies are interested in Bo Bichette and met with him on Monday, according to Jon Heyman of the New York Post. Maybe he signed with them (or someone else) by the time you read this. There are good reasons to like Bichette as a player. He hit .311 with […]
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that the Nationals are launching a Minor League development camp in West Palm Beach that will open later this month. This camp will host about 60 minor leaguers and will run from January 20th until the start of Spring Training. The Nats have never done anything like this before, so […]
The Arizona Cardinals are now knee deep in trying to find the right guy to lead the franchise going forward. No more promises of three-year plans. RELATED: CARDINALS COACHING SEARCH ROTB Managing Editor Seth Cox has assembled a current list of candidates: One of the interviews that the Cardinals have requested is Thomas Brown, the […]
After years of the transfer portal being a net negative, Coach Swinney finally acquiesced to the changing nature of college football and hit a home run in the portal by adding a slew of immediate starters who change the outlook for 2026 in a big way. In the video and article below, we give a […]
Casey Stengel called him the “strangest man ever to play baseball,” which, coming from “The Old Perfessor”, is notable. His career somehow spanned 15 seasons, even though he was just a career .243 hitter and only accrued six home runs in 1,962 plate appearances. He spoke seven languages and would often confer with his Princeton […]
Just last week, I took a “way too early” look at a possible Cubs Opening Day roster. Today, we stand 72 days from that (hopefully not too cold) Opening Day game Thursday, March 26 against the Nationals at Wrigley Field — and two significant changes have happened since then. So let’s take another look at […]
When the Mets traded for Huascar Brazobán in the summer of 2024, it was seen as a minor, but craft move. Brazobán, a late bloomer in terms of big league appearances, was under team control through 2028, had two options remaining, and had some interesting facets of his game just below the surface. That didn’t […]
The mid 2000s were a pretty brutal period in Yankees’ history when it comes to one specific facet of the team: pitching. Andy Pettitte left the team in free agency after 2003, having not felt wanted enough by the Yankees, and almost every notable pitching move the team made until his return in 2007 didn’t […]
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Welcome to Tuesday guys! Yesterday evening we got word that the Athletics have named former big league pitcher Barry Enright as the organization’s new pitching coordinator: That job also comes with the title of director of pitching. While Enright has spent the past two years in the big leagues with the division-rival Los Angeles Angels, […]
After revealing the players who appeared on a single ballot yesterday, it’s time to write about some players that were named on multiple ballots but who fell short from Honorable Mention Purple Row Prospect (PuRP) status in the pre-season 2026 voting. Today, I’ll reveal the first six names in this category and tomorrow the other five […]
The New York Rangers are having another bad season and the team has the worst points percentage in the Eastern Conference. They are also the only team under .500 in the East and have lost eight of their last 10 games. It makes too much sense for the Rangers to sell and they have the means to change things up and bring in helpful pieces. The big trade candidate is Artemi Panarin, who had reportedly rejected a big contract extension and isn't going to take a team-friendly deal to stick around. T...
By the time the final whistle blew on Monday night’s Third Round FA Cup tie, Liverpool had secured a quite comfortable looking 4-1 victory over League One’s Barnsley. For those watching the match play out, though, it perhaps hadn’t seemed quite so comfortable. After scoring on a pair of quite spectacular—and quite unlikely to lead […]
Freddy Fermin came to the San Diego Padres from the Kansas City Royals at the trade deadline last season. He was the backup to Salvador Perez in Kansas City but immediately took over and upgraded the catching position in San Diego. The Padres gave the Royals starting pitchers Ryan Bergert and Stephen Kolek, which was […]