Mike Petriello

Some top prospects are drafted. Others are made. This is a story about the latter, and about what you really can learn from the first few days of a long Major League season. Welcome to the path of Boston's Kristian Campbell. In his first weekend in the Majors, the 22-year-old

“You make your money when you hit the ball out front,” Twins outfielder Walker Jenkins, the No. 3 overall prospect in baseball, told FanGraphs recently. “That’s where you’re going to produce more damage, more power.” If that seems like accepted hitting strategy today – since so many batters are trying

For generations, baseball fans have loved talking about batting stances, the stranger the better – even if, as the 2024 Brewers reminded us, most of the stances aren’t quite so strange anymore. We’ve never really had a way to compare and contrast the various stances across the game, though, to

It’s very much that time of year again, which is to say that it’s time to prepare ourselves for the 2025 baseball season the same way we’ve done it for the last few years – by breaking down the 30 teams into a handful of nebulously defined tiers. The Tiers

If the Cubs are going to make some moves towards their first full-season division title since 2017, it’s not just going to be about new additions like Kyle Tucker, Ryan Pressly, Justin Turner and Matthew Boyd. It’s going to be about improvements from returning players, too. It’s going to be

Before the 2023 season, the Rangers signed Jacob deGrom to a five-year, $185 million deal. You might not have thought about him since. OK, that’s more than a little unfair. Then again, deGrom made just six starts for Texas in early 2023, then injured his elbow at the end of

You may not think about defense as being quite as important as a blazing fastball or a massive homer, but that doesn’t mean there’s not considerable value in it. After all, last year, five of the top eight fielding teams made the playoffs – and all of the eight weakest

The best team in the American League West is the Astros, who have made the postseason eight consecutive times. No, wait; the best team is the Rangers, who won the World Series merely 15 months ago. No, wait; the best team is actually the Mariners, who tied for the best

You don’t remember Stu Miller, but you should. In 1961, pitching in the All-Star Game at his own home field of Candlestick Park in San Francisco, the Giants righty was hit by a gust of wind so strong that the story goes that he was blown right off the mound

The Dodgers have had the "best" offseason of any team, full stop. It would be naive to try to convince anyone to the contrary. Not only did they add plenty of talent to their roster, they’ve also benefited their franchise in ways on and off the field that could continue