Major League Baseball All-Star voting is officially open. Yeah, the season is flying by. It’s June and the usual suspects are cementing their names as among pennant chasers. The Dodgers, Braves, Yankees, and Brewers are all at the top of the league again. There are some newbies coming into their own as well. The Pirates are competitive as of the first week of June. And the White Sox would...
Cristopher Sánchez and the Phillies have been dominating under Don Mattingly. The club has jumped to a 25-26 record, going 16-7 under their new skipper to put Philadelphia back in the playoff hunt. Sánchez has been an important cog in the machine, and is currently trying to make history for the Phillies. After pitching eight scoreless innings Friday against Cleveland, Sánchez has increased his...
The 2026 MLB season could be defined by one word: Injury. Numerous teams have seen stars hit the injury list mid-way through May — and as a Mets website, you readers don’t need to be reminded of that. The Tigers have seen players such as Tarik Skubal, Javier Baez, Kerry Carpenter, and Gleyber Torres go down, the Yankees have seen Max Fried, Jasson Dominguez, and José...
Remember everything I said about the National League East? Trash that and reapply it to the NL Central. That division through April looks like the real deal. Every single team is above .500 and chock full of talent. The Pirates have finally put together a competent offense behind their rotation, the Reds have finally developed a rotation behind their star-studded infield, the Cubs are mashing...
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,...
Saturday, April 18, 2026 • 2:20 PM Wrigley Field • Chicago, IL RHP Freddy Peralta (1-1, 3.86) vs. RHP Jameson Taillon (0-1, 4.86) SNY The Mets are currently on their longest losing streak since 2004. They still have to lose two more games to tie that streak, three more to break it. Or the Mets could end all of that talk with a win this afternoon in Chicago. Yesterday, the Mets were able to rack...
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...
Friday, April 16, 2026 • 2:20 PM Wrigley Field • Chicago, IL RHP Kodai Senga (0-2, 7.07) vs. RHP Edward Cabrera (1-0, 1.62) WPIX It has been a bad week-and-a-half for the New York Mets. They enter play today last place in the NL East, five games out of first place with a 7-12 record and on an eight-game losing streak. The Mets desperately need to snap out of their funk. They are facing a Chicago...
Could it get any worse? I sure hope not. The New York Mets (7-12) are in the midst of an eight-game losing streak. After being swept by the Athletics at home, the Mets were outmatched by the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this week. Their lineup scored a total of three runs over the three games, which looks very thin without Juan Soto. Through 19 games, the Mets are averaging 3.42 runs per game,...
The first week of the 2026 season is already in the books. And lots of rookies made impacts with their teams. JJ Wetherholt has looked comfortable with St. Louis so far, taking his walks and holding second base defensively for a young and upcoming Cardinals team. Konnor Griffin signed a 9-year, $140 million extension at 19 and then promptly hit an RBI double in his first major league at-bat...
Winter is officially in the books. Even if the weather on the East Coast is still in the 40s. Baseball began Wednesday night with the Yankees defeating the Giants 7-0, kicking off an exciting 2026 season. The Dodgers still have a target on their heads coming off back-to-back World Series rings, and will look to be the first team to three-peat since the Yankees from 1998-2000. Meanwhile, the...
The Cubs have signed free agent third baseman Alex Bregman to a five-year, $175 million contract, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Much like former Met Pete Alonso, Bregman signs a long-term contract with a new team after settling for an option-laden contract ahead of the 2025 season. The righty opted out of his deal before this season, and now Bregman will move to the National League...
