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Yankees Facing Roster Decisions
Finding the Best Twenty-Six Men Opening Day is right around the corner. The New York Yankees play the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, March 30th, at Yankee Stadium, and difficult roster decisions are looming on the immediate horizon. The most difficult decision is the top-ranked Yankees prospect, Anthony Volpe. Volpe is a fan favorite to […]
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Mets Claim 26-Year-Old RHP From Twins
On March 17, the Mets claimed right-handed reliever Dennis Santana from the Minnesota Twins. Santana, who turns 27 next month, has pitched in five MLB seasons, including a career-high 63 games in 2022 for the Rangers. His basic stats–a 5.22 ERA and 76 ERA+–don’t show a particularly strong pitcher, but the underlying statistics show something […]
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Cincinnati Reds 2023 Opening Day Roster Predictions: Position Players
As the baseball world inches closer to Opening Day, rosters have begun to solidify around MLB. The Reds currently have 45 players in major league camp and have started making cuts about every other day. The team’s major top prospects in Elly De La Cruz, Matt McLain, and Christian Encarnacion-Strand, were optioned to the minor […]
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This Player Could Be on the Fast Track to the Detroit Tigers if…
Currently ranked the #2 prospect in the Detroit Tigers prospect pool, 2B/3B Jace Jung (pronounced Young) has the makings of a solid to good hitter. The question is with defensive limits, where will Jung wind up playing, 2B or 3B? Yet, that is a good problem for the organization to find and figure out. Jung’s […]
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Giants Sign Sergio Romo to a Minors Contract, Letting Him Pitch Once More in Front of the Fans He Loves
Sergio Romo beat all the odds. After bouncing around between three colleges, Romo was drafted as a 28th-round pick by the Giants in 2005. Not much is ever expected of such late-round picks, and Romo was only one of two 28th-rounders from that draft that even made it to the big leagues. But unlike the […]
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Red Sox Top Prospects 2023 Expectations
When Chaim Bloom took over the GM position in 2019, Boston’s farm system was ranked 30th (out of 30). Of course, coming off a World Series championship, nobody was complaining. The new directive from ownership was to build a farm system, promote home-grown talent, draft younger kids with higher upside, and of course, spend less […]
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Giants Reassign Top Prospect Kyle Harrison to Minors Camp
The Giants announced on Tuesday that they’d assigned top prospect LHP Kyle Harrison to minors camp. Harrison was a revelation in 2022 for an otherwise struggling Giants farm system, jumping from a fringe Top-100 prospect to a top-20 prospect and the best LHP prospect in baseball. Harrison split time between High-A and Double-A last season, […]
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The Red Sox Shortstop Conundrum
After trading away Nomar Garciaparra before the 2004 trade deadline, the shortstop position became a frustrating carousel of mediocrity in Boston. Pokey Reese, Orlando Cabrera, Edgar Renteria, Alex Gonzalez, Alex Cora, Julio Lugo, Nick Green (who I forgot completely), Marco Scutaro, and Mike Aviles….the plan at short every year was no plan at all. Of […]
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Forever in History: What Being in the WBC Means for British Baseball
When Great Britain started their qualifier against France last year, few would have expected them to qualify for the World Baseball Classic, let alone win a game if they ever made it. Yet here we are. For a country that has but a few baseball fields, no professional teams, and little history to speak of […]
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Predicting the Pittsburgh Pirates Team Awards Heading Into the 2023 Season
For the first time in a long time, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ offseason was viewed as a success. Despite not bringing in superstar talent, Pirates General Manager Ben Cherington addressed some serious team needs, strengthening the depth of the Major League roster. After bringing back franchise icon Andrew McCutchen and adding veterans like Carlos Santana and […]
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