Remember when nobody wanted Munetaka Murakami? The Japanese slugger was the most sought-after foreign free agent, then statistics came out that he couldn’t hit velocity, and he had to settle for a two-year, $34 million contract with the White Sox. Well, Murakami is proving just about everyone wrong, and currently is tied with Yordan Alvarez for the major league lead in homers with 11. Oh,...
Baseball hasn’t been kind to the Big Apple. The Mets and Yankees both struggled mightily last week, costing the Bombers a few spots on the top 10 and the Mets to fall off the list. The Amazins’ have dropped nine games in a row after starting 7-4 and fundamentally look like one of the worst teams in baseball. And the Yankees got swept by the Rays, split a series with the Angels, and...
It’s easy to look at the Mets’ January blockbuster with Milwaukee and view it strictly as the “Freddy Peralta trade.” And to Peralta’s credit, that’s fair. But history shows that the secondary pieces in these deals often end up outplaying expectations. Think Trevor Williams in the Javier Báez trade back in 2021. That secondary piece here is Tobias Myers. To understand what the Mets actually...
Freddy Peralta, SP Position: SP B/T: R/R Age: 30 (6/4/1996) 2025 Traditional Stats: 33 G, 176.2 IP, 2.70 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 204 SO, 66 BB 2025 Advanced Stats: 154 ERA+, 28.2 K%, 9.1 BB%, 3.47 xERA, 3.63 FIP, 3.85 xFIP, 3.6 fWAR, 5.5. bWAR Contract Status: Free agent after 2026 Rundown Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns is very familiar with starting pitcher Freddy Peralta from his...
Trevor Megill Position: RP B/T: L/R Player Data: Age: 32 (12/05/1993) 2025 Traditional Stats: 50 G, 47 IP, 2.49 ERA, 1.128 WHIP, 6-3, 30 SV, 60 K, 17 BB 2025 Advanced Stats: 168 ERA+, 31.3% K%, 8.9% BB%, 3.19 xERA, 2.50 FIP, 3.08 xFIP, 1.5 bWAR, 1.6 fWAR Rundown Trevor Megill is the definition of a late bloomer. A seventh-round pick by the Padres in 2015, the towering righty didn’t debut...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Dodgers won the National League pennant, sweeping the Brewers in four games to advance to the World Series. Shohei Ohtani delivered one of the best individual performances the game has ever seen in Game 4, hitting three home runs and throwing six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts. The Dodgers will defend their title against either the Blue Jays or Mariners. The...
Milwaukee Brewers @ Los Angeles Dodgers Aaron Ashby (0-0, 4.26 ERA) vs. RHP Tyler Glasnow (0-0, 0.00 ERA) Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Dodger Stadium – 3:08 PM PDT (6:08 PM EDT) TV – TBS, HBO MAX RADIO – ESPN Radio The Dodgers took firm control of the NLCS on Tuesday, as Yoshinobu Yamamoto hurled the first playoff complete game in eight years in a 5-1 victory at American Family Field. Now, the...
With the wild card series over, the playoff format is finally locked in for the 2025 postseason. The Yanks and Tigers sent their division rivals packing, the best bullpen in the field lost in a three-game set at Wrigley Field to the Cubs, and the Dodgers won the most lopsided wild-card series this era of playoffs has ever seen. Now, with both leagues kicking off their division series, the only...
The final Saturday of the 2025 season marks one last power rankings. Unfortunately for most the readers involved, the penultimate day of the season will be filled with anxiety and potentially disappointment. The Mets, who had the best record in baseball in mid-June, and the second wild card spot in August, are on the verge of completing their collapse. They are “tied” with the Reds...
Last week in baseball featured our first glimpses of clinches. The Phillies won their second consecutive National League East title Monday with an extra-innings win, the Brewers clinched a spot in October with a win Sunday that featured a made-up letter from Bob Uecker, and the Cubs also clinched a spot with their 88th win of the season Wednesday in Pittsburgh. So far, these three NL teams have...
With only a handful of series left to go, the wild-card races are heating up toward the middle of September. In the National League, the third wild card is up for grabs. The Mets’ free fall has been generational, and they dropped Friday night’s game to the Rangers for their seventh straight loss. The Giants, meanwhile, won again, and only trail the Amazins’ by half a game. The...
The first week of September did not disappoint. The Blue Jays took two of three against the Reds and a massive Game 1 in the Bronx to impact both leagues’ wild card races, the Giants swept the Rockies and took two of three from the Orioles, storming back in the National League wild card race, and the Rangers beat the Astros Friday night and have gone 10-3 in their last 13. No one is safe...
