Mookie, Soto among those with week's most spectacular stats
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (April 12-18).
Crocheting: After his fourth start Saturday, Garrett Crochet is up to 31 strikeouts and four walks this season. That’s the most strikeouts in a pitcher’s first four career starts in White Sox franchise history,...
How Skubal learned one of baseball's nastiest pitches
Tarik Skubal's ascendance to an MLB ace began on April 30, 2021. That day was the genesis of what's become one of baseball's most unhittable pitches: Skubal's changeup.
Skubal enters Wednesday's start against the World Series champion Rangers as the most valuable pitcher in the Majors over the last 10...
Tarik Skubal
The certain Hall of Famer hitting like a GOAT again
Few players in MLB history have compiled a peak like Mike Trout had in the 2010s.
From 2012-19 (1,159 games), Trout slashed .308/.422/.587 with a 178 OPS+ that was far and away the best among hitters with at least 1,000 plate appearances (David Ortiz was next-closest at 154), while Trout's...
Mike Trout
The most interesting new pitches of 2024
It might not quite be “best shape of my life,” so far as annual Spring Training rites go, but “I’m working on a new pitch” is a close second.
Every year, it seems like dozens of pitchers show up to camp saying they’ve learned a new pitch that’s going to...
Cody Bolton
Carlos Rodon
Logan Gilbert
Garrett Crochet
Zack Wheeler
Bryce Miller
Dean Kremer
Dominic Leone
Zack Thompson
Yankees sluggers, Blanco, Elly posted stellar stats this week
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (April 5-11).
All that power: Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge homered in the same game Saturday for the first time this season and 36th time as teammates, including the postseason. The Yankees are now 32-4, including...
7 hot hitters who can keep sizzling into summer
A two-week hot streak in the middle of summer can get lost in the shuffle of a long baseball season. But a two-week hot streak to begin the season? Now that gets some attention.
Many of the best bats in the Majors early in 2024 have been the ones you...
Christopher Morel
CJ Abrams
Spencer Steer
MJ Melendez
Tyler O'Neill
Anthony Volpe
Ivan Herrera
Statcast metrics say to keep an eye on these 10 players
It's early in the 2024 season, but plenty of players stand out with hot starts.
In some cases, it's certainly no surprise -- we already know that Mookie Betts, Bobby Witt Jr., Jose Altuve and Zack Wheeler are some of the stars of the sport. In other cases, there's enough...
Maikel Garcia
Jung Hoo Lee
Shota Imanaga
Garrett Crochet
Jared Jones
Yainer Diaz
Victor Scott II
Logan O'Hoppe
Reid Detmers
Mason Miller
Yamamoto's multidimensional curveball already looks elite
Yoshinobu Yamamoto's yo-yo curveball has arrived.
We knew coming into Yamamoto's first season with the Dodgers that the curve was his signature pitch. We got a preview of how good that curveball could be in the World Baseball Classic and hoped Yamamoto could follow in the footsteps of longtime Dodgers...
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
1 week down, here are 7 things we've learned ... so far
A week into the season, it’s hard to make any grand sweeping proclamations. After all, some teams haven’t even played 5 percent of their schedule yet -- there’s so, so much more baseball to come. (Hooray!) That said, it doesn’t mean that we can’t make some takeaways about what’s happening...
Maikel Garcia
Seiya Suzuki
Willson Contreras
Fernando Tatis Jr.
How will ballpark factors affect players on new teams?
A change of scenery for a hitter can make a world of difference.
Many batters who trade one home park for another reap the benefits of their new environments. Others, of course, struggle to adjust to the change and can’t replicate their previous success.
Plenty of star hitters changed teams...
Shohei Ohtani
Juan Soto
J.D. Martinez
Teoscar Hernandez
Jorge Polanco
Jeimer Candelario
Tyler O'Neill
Justin Turner
Joc Pederson