MLB Standings Reveal a Way-Too-Early Look at Current Projected Playoff Bracket Some surprising teams are charting a course toward baseball's postseason. Sports Illustrated · May 21
MLB Standings Show Just How Quickly Phillies Have Come Back From the Dead And just like that, surging Philadelphia is over .500. Sports Illustrated · May 18
MLB Standings and Full Schedule for Rivalry Weekend It's time to settle some regional bragging rights. Sports Illustrated · May 15
MLB Power Rankings: One Player Disappointing for Every Team This week’s edition of SI’s MLB power rankings examines 30 players underperforming for their teams so far in 2026. Sports Illustrated · May 15
The Nine MLB Watchability Tiers for All 30 Teams From appointment viewing to hopeless endeavors, every franchise is going into one of nine buckets. Sports Illustrated · May 14
MLB Standings: Don't Look Now but the White Sox Are Playing .500 Baseball After losing a combined 326 games over the past three seasons, there is life on Chicago's South Side Sports Illustrated · May 14
MLB Standings: What If the Dodgers Aren’t What Everyone Expected Them to Be? The two-time defending champs aren't exactly lighting the world on fire. Sports Illustrated · May 13
MLB Standings Show Desperate Teams Are Suddenly Right Back In the Hunt The Red Sox and Phillies have been soaring since making drastic moves. Sports Illustrated · May 7
How Don Mattingly Became the Phillies' New Interim Manager The former Dodgers and Marlins skipper was ready to walk away from baseball after serving as Toronto's bench coach last season. Dave Dombrowski had other plans. Sports Illustrated · May 4
MLB Standings Show What It Takes to Lead Best Division in Baseball Cubs take control of NL Central amid a field of contenders. Sports Illustrated · May 4
Padres Sale to Kwanza Jones, José E. Feliciano Official, New Owners Say 'We Are All-In' The Padres sale to Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano is official. The new owners pledge to be all-in. Sports Illustrated · May 2
MLB Standings Reveal American and National Leagues Are Two Different Worlds Right Now One league is full of teams playing .500 or better ball. The other is not. Sports Illustrated · Apr 30
Mason Miller’s Scoreless Innings Streak Ends After One of the Worst Calls You’ll Ever See Padres closer Mason Miller saw his scoreless innings streak end at 34 2/3 innings after umpire Dan Merzel called a visibly foul ball fair, giving Matt Shaw an infield hit. Sports Illustrated · Apr 28
MLB Standings Show Just How Desperate the Red Sox Have Become Boston's April shakeup surprised everyone. Sports Illustrated · Apr 27
Sports Illustrated · Apr 26 Alex Cora’s Firing Is the Final Straw. John Henry Should Sell the Red Sox After the original sin of the Mookie Betts trade in 2020, Boston’s owner has overseen a number of missteps that have left the franchise in disarray.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 26 Red Sox’ Season Was Doomed From the Start—and Firing Alex Cora Won’t Change That Boston may have dismissed its manager Saturday, but the issues extend well beyond him and can’t be fixed at this point.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 25 Red Sox Fire Alex Cora, Five Coaches After Brutal Start to Season The Red Sox have fired manager Alex Cora, Jason Varitek and most of the team’s coaching staff after an awful start to the season.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 25 Mason Miller Sets Franchise Record as Padres Top Diamondbacks in Mexico City Mason Miller has now thrown 34 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, a Padres record. San Diego beat the Diamondbacks in Game 1 of the Mexico City Series.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 25 MLB Mexico City Series: How to Watch Padres-Diamondbacks Game MLB's World Tour returns to Mexico City this weekend with an NL West showdown between the Padres and Diamondbacks. Here's everything you need to know.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 24 MLB Weekend Schedule and Updated Standings: First Place Up for Grabs in Multiple Series Full standings and schedule as MLB enters the final weekend of April.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 24 Re-Drafting the Poorly Picked 2016 MLB Draft Zero first-round picks from the 2016 MLB draft have been selected to an All-Star Game to date. It’s ripe for a redraft.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 23 MLB Standings Show Just How Deep a Hole the Phillies and Mets Are In NL East cellar-dwellers are nowhere near contention at this early stage.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 22 Lucas Giolito’s Holdout Ends With a Humbling Whimper—and a Golden Opportunity The pitcher turned down a chance to earn $19 million this year and will instead earn a fraction of that. But the Padres represent a promising landing spot.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 21 MLB Standings Suggest Surprising Division Could Be in for Historic Year All five teams have been hot out of the gates and exceeding projections.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 21 What the Padres Sale Says About Other Small-Market Teams San Diego’s story could be a model for the rest of the league, if only those other teams wanted it to be.