Edwin Díaz’s Dodgers Struggles Are Even Worse Than They Look The Dodgers’ highly paid closer has been awful this season. A look inside his numbers reveals some troubling trends. Sports Illustrated · Aug 17
The Dodgers’ Fatal Flaws Are Finally Catching Up With Them The defending champions’ weaknesses were on full display in a sloppy, mistake-ridden series loss to the Brewers, raising serious questions about their bid for a three-peat. Sports Illustrated · Aug 17
Tommy John, the Man Behind Baseball’s Most Famous Surgery, Dies at 83 Tommy John, an All-Star pitcher whose name is tied to the most famous surgery in sports, died at 83 on Sunday. Sports Illustrated · Aug 16
Tommy John Cause of Death Update: Yankees Pitcher Dies at 83, Days After Emotional Farewell Letter to Fans Tommy John, former MLB pitcher and namesake of the groundbreaking surgery, has died at 83. His farewell letter reflects on his career and the medical breakthrough that saved countless athletes. International Business Times UK · Aug 16
Karma Strikes As 13-Year-Old Faces Charges After Dodgeball Incident Leaves Ex-Girlfriend Hospitalized “You have to choose somebody, throw the ball, then try to get them out.” Bored Panda · Aug 15
Seven Pending Free Agents Who Have Raised Their Stock This Season These MLB players have stepped it up during their contract year. Sports Illustrated · Aug 14
Hunter Greene Was Baseball’s Next Big Thing. Now His Career Is in Jeopardy. The Reds’ ace has undergone a second Tommy John surgery, sidelining him through 2027. It wasn’t supposed to go this way for the former two-way star. Sports Illustrated · Aug 13
The White Sox's ‘Pope Hat’ Night Looked Like Heaven on Earth And it really was, according to the fans we asked. Sports Illustrated · Aug 12
Five MLB Trade Deadline Moves That Are Already Paying Off Several players acquired at the trade deadline have gotten off to fast starts for their new teams. Sports Illustrated · Aug 12
SI:AM | The Numbers Behind Paul Skenes’s Stunning Dropoff There’s one glaring difference that might explain why the Pirates star has declined sharply this season after a historically great start to his career. Sports Illustrated · Aug 12
Cal Raleigh's Season-Long Slump Is Far From the Mariners’ Only Problem Raleigh’s drop-off has been historic, but his co-stars in Seattle’s lineup have largely disappointed, too. Sports Illustrated · Aug 12
Paul Skenes’s Struggles Can Be Traced to a Slight Windup Change The Pirates ace hasn’t looked like himself since early June, when a mechanical shift took hold. Sports Illustrated · Aug 11
Apollo Backs the Yankees With $2.6 Billion in Financing Apollo Sports Capital is providing $2.6 billion in debt and equity financing to Yankee Global Enterprises, bringing the private-equity firm in as a new strategic backer of the New York Yankees’ holding company. Benzinga · Aug 11
SI:AM | The Weirdest Baseball Play You’ll See All Season The umps in the Red Sox-Blue Jays game had to apply the rarely used “fourth out” rule after a confusing sequence in the seventh inning. Sports Illustrated · Aug 11
Sports Illustrated · Aug 11 How Pete Crow-Armstrong Overtook Shohei Ohtani As the NL MVP Favorite The Cubs’ center fielder is the league’s best defender and has been red-hot at the plate all summer. His improvement could be enough to unseat Ohtani as MVP.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 11 A Peculiar Left Side Story in Boston The Red Sox boast a pair of southpaw pitchers who have some odd similarities. Plus, thoughts on A’s shortstop Jacob Wilson’s errorless record.
The Independent UK · Aug 11 How did the Red Sox score a run without tagging up on a sacrifice fly? The unusual score represented Boston’s only run during a 2-1 defeat to the Blue Jays
Sports Illustrated · Aug 10 The Concerning Numbers Behind the Dodgers' Midseason Malaise Los Angeles has lost eight of nine games for the first time since 2017 and wouldn’t receive a first-round bye if the playoffs started today.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 10 Pitching Longevity Has Officially Hit an All-Time Low Starters are bringing traditional closers’ stuff to the mound, but at a cost.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 George Lombard Jr. Has What It Takes to Succeed Where Anthony Volpe Faltered The Yankees’ 21-year-old shortstop has shot out of the gate in the majors—just as Volpe did at the same age. But Lombard’s profile portends a brighter future.
The Independent UK · Aug 6 Yankees fan sues team for $10M after stray bat flew into stands and hit her in the head Stephanie Duluc was left with a traumatic brain injury after a stray bat flew into the stands and knocked her over during a June 2 Yankees game
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 Meet Jefry Yan, the Mets’ Rookie Pitcher Whose Strikeout Celebrations Are Already the Talk of MLB The 29-year-old right-hander made his MLB debut on Wednesday night, and immediately went viral.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 How the Brewers Could've Prevented the Dodgers From Acquiring Tarik Skubal Milwaukee had the pieces to outbid Los Angeles for the two-time Cy Young winner.
Latin Times · Aug 5 Scared, But Legal: MLB's Venezuelan Stars Open Up About a Season Shadowed by ICE Venezuelan MLB stars Eugenio Suárez and Miguel Rojas open up about immigration fear despite legal status, as ICE tension reaches the clubhouse.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 5 SI:AM | How Tarik Skubal and George Lombard Jr. Fared in Their Debuts Skubal took the mound in a Dodgers uniform for the first time, while the Yankees called up the prospect they hope will be their shortstop of the future.