The second half of the 2024 MLB season is officially underway on Friday. The Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants are at the bottom of the National League West but the Giants are still in the hunt sitting just nine games back in the division and just three games back in the Wild Card. As… read more

There is a pretty good chance that for the rest of time, the MLB draft signing bonus record will be broken year after year. After all, that’s how money in sports works. Last season, Paul Skenes signed with the Pirates for a record $9.2 million after Pittsburgh made him the number-one overall pick in a… read more

Mike Tauchman has been activated from the injured list ahead of the Chicago Cubs series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Tauchman had been on the IL since June 17th because of a groin strain. Alexander Canario was sent back to AAA Iowa in the corresponding news. Canario only got three at bats in his most recent… read more

At this time last season, the Texas Rangers were 52-39 entering the second half of a season in which they would lose the division on the final day of the regular season before going on to win the World Series as a Wild Card team. Flash forward a year later and Texas is 46-50 as… read more

Continuing my 2 part series on major league baseball midseason awards and turning my attention to the National League. You can read part 1 here. The National League has what I believe to be some candidates that are a lock, and I will not have any disagreement (or not much). You can’t look at some… read more

It was announced today that the Chicago Cubs will open the 2025 Major League Baseball season against the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Tokyo Dome. Those games will take place on March 18th and 19th. It makes sense to feature these two teams in Japan with Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the Dodgers and… read more

With the All-Star game over and the season resuming soon, I thought I would take a minute to look at who impressed the first half of the Major League Baseball season. Awards are something everyone likes to hand out, especially when there is no active baseball happening at the moment. I’ll start in the American… read more

The 2024 Chicago Cubs were not supposed to enter the All-Star break trying to decide if they would be a buyer or a seller before the July 30th MLB trade deadline, but here they are. The combination of Jed Hoyer not doing enough to add to the team in the offseason, injuries, and underperformance across… read more