Mike Petriello

After a big trade for Sonny Gray, the next NL Central righty the Red Sox have added might seem considerably less interesting, given that new addition Johan Oviedo has spent most of five seasons for St. Louis and Pittsburgh being decidedly unremarkable. You wouldn’t look at a career 4.24 ERA

Nolan Arenado, potential future Hall of Famer, is going to get traded this winter. Probably. We say probably, because both sides have indicated it’s time for a change, with new Cardinals president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom going so far as to say “we all feel like it’s best to

Nolan Arenado, un potencial futuro miembro del Salón de la Fama, será cambiado este invierno. Probablemente. Decimos probablemente, porque ambas partes han indicado que es momento de un cambio. Chaim Bloom, el nuevo presidente del departamento de operaciones de béisbol de los Cardenales, llegó a decir este mes que “todos

Buscando recalibrar sus rosters para el 2026 y más allá, los Mets y los Rangers acordaron un mega cambio la noche del domingo, moviendo a un par de jugadores firmados con acuerdos a largo plazo. El jardinero Brandon Nimmo se dirige a Arlington. El segunda base Marcus Semien está en

El béisbol puede ser un deporte de imitación, y muchos parecen querer aprender de la sorprendente carrera de Toronto hasta el Juego 7 de la Serie Mundial con una lección aparentemente simple: hacer más contacto lleva a más victorias. Suena bien, en teoría. Pero esa puede no ser la lección

There’s simply no shortage of incredibly clutch moments in baseball postseason history, and many of them are so famous that you don’t even need to name the players involved to know what we’re referring to. Game 6, 1986? Boston fans will run speeding in the opposite direction. Game 6, 1993?

So you’re a team on the free-agent market, looking to add the next massive piece of what you hope can be a contending team, or maybe just that final complementary part to help get you over the line. Who’s out there – and what kind of help can they offer?

Where does each team start the 2025-26 offseason? It’s not necessarily the exact same place where they ended the 2025 regular season (or postseason). Even though it’s only been a few days since the conclusion of a thrilling World Series, roster machinations are already in full swing. Players have become

The 2025 World Series only just ended, but baseball doesn't really stop. The 2026 MLB season starts immediately, believe it or not, with decisions to be made about which free agents will receive a qualifying offer – and which, of those who do, will choose to accept or reject it.

What is it with the Dodgers and being involved in the most pivotal plays in World Series history? It’s not that hard to rank every single play that’s ever happened in the Fall Classic by using Win Probability Added, which looks at the context of each moment in a game

Game 7 of the 2025 World Series was one of the wildest, and to some extent that’s expressed as easily as “a deciding World Series game went to extra innings,” which had happened just twice before in baseball history. When you’re talking about things like “was that the best Game

The biggest names in the 2025 World Series need no introduction, and really don’t even need to be identified by their full name – merely saying “Shohei, Vladdy, Mookie, and Mad Max” tells you about all you need to know. But as we’ve long learned by now, the main characters

In the regular season, no team's batters had a lower strikeout rate than the Blue Jays, and no team's pitchers struck out more batters than the Dodgers. Sometimes, the World Series narratives write themselves: Can the Blue Jays make enough contact against a pitching staff specifically designed to eliminate contact?

One month ago Tuesday, Roki Sasaki was in Tacoma, Wash., warming for his second career Triple-A relief outing. He entered in the sixth inning, getting two grounders and a strikeout as he retired a prospect and a pair of hitters who’d combined to hit .234/.268/.308 in the Majors this year

The Blue Jays make a ton of contact. They put the ball in play. It’s what they do. No team had a lower strikeout rate this season. No team has a lower strikeout rate this postseason. They scored the fourth-most runs in the regular season, and so far have the

Think about what you know about ballparks and which ones are conducive to hitting home runs. Then think about how that might affect the NLDS between the Dodgers and Phillies when it moves to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday, with the home team looking to complete a sweep.

“We’ve capitalized on pretty much every error, every defensive mistake and every pitching mistake,” Brewers hitting coach Connor Dawson said this summer. “That is our philosophy. That is our identity.” “We want to make people play the game and we want to drag them through hell doing it.”

Over the last two seasons, two teams are tied for the most victories in baseball: • 191, Dodgers • 191, Phillies OK, then! This might not be the World Series, or even the National League Championship Series, but it might be as good of a “matchup between the two best

For the first time since 1984, somehow, the Cubs and Padres are set to square off in the National League playoffs. It hasn't been quite that long since they've seen each other this season, but it might feel like it; while the two clubs split their six games in 2025,

The Dodgers are in the postseason, once again. They’ll have Shohei Ohtani atop the lineup, once again. But: How will they use him? In what role? Or roles? Baseball’s most interesting man – and only official “two-way player” – offers so many options for Dave Roberts to choose from, now