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1 dark horse candidate to be the best player in each division
If you'd been told at the start of last season that Cal Raleigh would be the most valuable player in the American League West, you'd have been surprised. But it was the Mariners catcher, not Yordan Alvarez or Corey Seager or Mike Trout or Julio Rodríguez, who led the division...
Jackson Holliday
Luis Robert Jr.
Wyatt Langford
James Wood
Oneil Cruz
Patrick Bailey
How 3 Dodgers have cornered the market on baseball's nastiest pitch
The splitter is on the rise in Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers are cornering the market.
Splitters were thrown more often in 2024 than in any other season of the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008. And entering the 2025 season, the Dodgers might have the three...
Roki Sasaki
Shohei Ohtani
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Keep an eye out for these 10 breakout candidates in 2025
Every season has its share of players who provide a glimpse at their potential, turning heads in small sample sizes and leaving us eager to see more.
The 10 players below did just that in 2024, positioning themselves to take on bigger roles in the upcoming campaign.
We'll be watching...
James Wood
Jonathan Aranda
Cody Bradford
Osvaldo Bido
Matt Wallner
DJ Herz
Ivan Herrera
Garrett Mitchell
Pavin Smith
Joey Bart
MLB's most extreme ballpark isn't in Colorado
Ask a dozen baseball fans which stadium they think created the most extreme park effects in 2024, and invariably most or all of them will give you the same answer: Coors Field. Colorado's ballpark is famous for the high altitude that affects how pitches move and the huge outfield that’s...
10 eye-popping player projections for 2025
Before every season, we like to take a look at player projections just to see what numbers pop. It's time for the 2025 editions.
These are some of the players who stand out this year, looking at the Steamer projections over at FanGraphs.
Here are 10 players with eye-opening projections...
Shohei Ohtani
Juan Soto
Paul Skenes
Roki Sasaki
Jacob deGrom
Julio Rodriguez
Jackson Chourio
Mark Vientos
Max Fried
Felix Bautista
Roki is here. This superstar slugger could be next
Roki Sasaki is here. Munetaka Murakami could be next.
From Shohei Ohtani to Yoshinobu Yamamoto to Sasaki, there's been a wave of young Japanese superstars coming to MLB from Nippon Professional Baseball over the last few seasons. And there could be another big one coming next year.
The superstar slugger...
Munetaka Murakami
What's the hold-up for the best SP still on the market?
If there’s been a theme of this baseball offseason … well, OK, it’s the Dodgers signing every member of your extended family. But if there’s another theme, it’s that starting pitchers have been doing quite well in free agency. In a sport desperate for pitching, the starting pitching market got...
Jack Flaherty
What to make of Profar's 2024 ... and his free agency case
One of the starting outfielders from the 2024 All-Star Game is out there available in free agency, yet you’ve barely heard a peep about him all winter. In fact, it’s been nearly a month since his last rumor entry on MLBTradeRumors popped up. If not for the obvious name atop...
Jurickson Profar
3 reasons Alonso can be a 40-homer hitter again
Pete Alonso, the biggest bat still on the free-agent market, remains a bit of a conundrum.
He's been one of MLB's top power hitters for his whole career, of course -- Alonso's 226 home runs since he debuted in 2019, an average of 43 per 162 games, rank second only...
Pete Alonso
Is the 6-man rotation a trend or a phase?
The Dodgers in 2025 plan to use a six-man rotation, both because of how many of their pitchers are coming off injuries, and because that’s how Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto operated in Japan.
The Red Sox may do the same – though Lucas Giolito doesn’t sound like he cares...
