Bryan Baker’s New Recipe With the Rays Has Made Him a Sneaky All-Star Candidate Tampa Bay’s 31-year-old closer was acquired from the Orioles last July in a trade that hardly anyone noticed. Sports Illustrated · Jul 1
Six Decisions That Sunk Perry Minasian—and What’s Next for the Angels The Angels are heading in a new direction after parting ways with Minasian, but history shows that this remains a rudderless franchise. Sports Illustrated · Jun 30
Perry Minasian Made a Hapless Angels Organization Even Worse Los Angeles fired its GM after a tenure that spanned six seasons, five managers, five top-13 draft picks, 108 more losses than wins and zero playoff berths. Sports Illustrated · Jun 30
The AL MVP Race Is Wide Open and Full of Flawed Candidates This season will mark the first time since 2019 that Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani won’t be named the American League MVP. Sports Illustrated · Jun 30
Inside the Numbers Behind the Braves’ June Swoon It’s been a month to forget for Atlanta, whose lead in the NL East has rapidly shrunk. Sports Illustrated · Jun 30
After Firing Carlos Mendoza, Mets Should Sell at Trade Deadline. But Who Can They Realistically Move? Languishing in last place and fresh off of firing their manager, the Mets’ next logical step is selling at the trade deadline. But it may not be that easy. Sports Illustrated · Jun 27
David Stearns’s Six Biggest Mistakes That Have Sunk the Mets New York fired manager Carlos Mendoza on Friday, but the team’s lead baseball executive arguably deserves more of the blame for their current malaise. Sports Illustrated · Jun 26
Miami Marlins track down viral ‘very good boy’ who watched as rival pup enjoyed a hot dog at a game ‘Everyone's always said he's like the greatest dog,’ the pup’s proud owner said after his new-found fame The Independent UK · Jun 26
Pope gets ball from final out of 2005 White Sox World Series game that he attended The future Pope Leo XIV was famously caught on camera in 2005, cheering from the stands during the game The Independent UK · Jun 26
The 10 Biggest Snubs From Phase 1 of MLB All-Star Voting There were some big misses from the fans in Phase 1 of MLB All-Star voting. Sports Illustrated · Jun 26
Evaluating MLB’s Most Overdue All-Star Hopefuls These players have all had accomplished careers, but have never earned an invite to the Midsummer Classic. Sports Illustrated · Jun 26
'It Was God': Ex-Mets Pitcher Jenrry Mejia Survives Venezuela Earthquake After Elevator Refused to Go to His Floor The former New York Mets pitcher says an elevator refused to take him to his hotel room moments before the building collapsed during Venezuela's devastating earthquake. International Business Times UK · Jun 26
I will show you fear in a rainbow baseball cap: the right’s culture wars come to MLB The right’s verdict is in: white, heterosexual, Christian men face the most discrimination in the US. The Giants don’t want to push back The Guardian - US · Jun 26
Pope Leo XIV receives World Series baseball from former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski Pope Leo XIV has received a special gift from former Chicago White Sox catcher A The Independent UK · Jun 25
Sports Illustrated · Jun 25 It May Be Time for the Dodgers to Give Dalton Rushing a Reset The young catcher has repeatedly let his emotions get the best of him lately.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 25 Inside the Numbers of the Ill-Fated Rafael Devers Trade, One Year Later Somehow, both the Red Sox and Giants lost last summer’s big blockbuster deal. But who has it worse?
Sports Illustrated · Jun 25 Tom Verducci’s 25-and-Under MLB All-Star Team Young players have never been performing better in the majors, where rule changes and pitch velocity increases are favoring the youth.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 24 Rafael Devers Clarifies What He Was Thinking During His Bad-Look Wave-Off Moment in Giants-Marlins Devers explained why he waved off his pinch-runner in the ninth inning of the game.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 24 Tarik Skubal Isn’t the Only Tigers Starter Throwing Gems Troy Melton’s 2.56 ERA is even better than Skubal’s. The righthander is on the track to stardom, even if his path there hasn’t been glamorous.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 24 The Phillies Have the Greatest Need of Any Contender—and Two Obvious Trade Fits This article was originally published as part of Verducci’s View, a new weekly baseball newsletter from Sports Illustrated senior writer Tom Verducci. Every Mon
Sports Illustrated · Jun 23 Jazz Chisholm’s In-Game Lollipop Is Both a Bad Look and Completely Overblown Lollipop-gate feels like a convenient way for Chisholm to be made a scapegoat and fall guy amid a poor stretch for the Yankees.
The National (Scotland) · Jun 23 Commentators left in hysterics after Tartan Army celebrations take over baseball game THOUSANDS of Tartan Army members took over a baseball game in Florida last night, where their celebrations inadvertently held up play after a…
Sports Illustrated · Jun 23 ABS All-Stars: MLB's Best Challengers at Each Position With the All-Star Game around the corner, let's assemble an All-Star team based on the best ABS challengers at each position.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 23 How Otto Lopez Radically Transformed Into MLB’s Best Pure Hitter The Marlins shortstop leads the majors in both hits and batting average after retooling his plate approach during the offseason.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 23 Five Potential Targets for the Braves at 2026 MLB Trade Deadline The Braves could look to make some big moves at this year’s trade deadline.