Read our story on the balloting format, which includes two phases of fan voting to determine the All-Star starters. Ad With nearly 7 million ballots cast, superstar sluggers Aaron Judge of the Yankees and Bryce Harper of the Phillies are the leading vote-getters for their respective leagues...
The catcher position has been a revolving door for the Tampa Bay Rays since their inception as a franchise in 1998, with 11 different Opening Day starters over 26 seasons. That number will grow to 12 starters in 27 seasons with René Pinto penciled into the starting lineup, and the ...
Earlier this week, we looked at six players who were off to pleasantly surprising starts so far. But, alas, not everyone is feeling so wonderful about how their 2023 has begun. For all the stories that are positive, there is at least someone on every tea
The Dodgers just added James Paxton to the rotation, so it's all pointing to the Dodgers using a six-man rotation to save on the wear and tear of all their starters, including the injury-prone Glasnow and Yamamoto, who is used to starting just once a week in Japan. Perez and Gray...
There is a relative dearth of dual-start options this coming week of fantasy (and real MLB, for that matter) baseball. There are just eight starters to grace the top tier in Week Twelve, although there are nearly equal numbers of middle tier and bottom tier pitchers to either consider ...
Burnes ranks fifth among qualified MLB starters in innings pitched, second in fWAR, fourth in ERA, sixth in FIP, and third in strikeouts. Of course, much of that is due to a dominant 2021 season that saw Burnes lead the sport in ERA (2.43), FIP (1.69), and strikeout rate (35.6%...
“Braves plan to be cautious following the three and one half month layoff and have most starters work only two or three innings per outing early in the season.” When using pitchers in this rotation for fantasy, knowing how many innings or pitches each logs in intrasquad scrimmages or simu...
Both were just added to the 40-man roster and have off-speed stuff that plays around average at the moment, so the clock is ticking on being able to stash them in the minors to try to develop them as starters.New York Yankees 6th overall 2nd in quality depth (prospects over 40...
San Francisco had roughly $208MM in luxury tax obligations coming into today, as calculated byRosterResource. This will push them to around $223MM, a little less than $20MM shy of the $241MM base threshold. Verlander’s deal matches the $15MM salaries which veteran startersAlex CobbandCharl...
Now that we’ve discussed fivehittersandstartersto keep an eye on this coming winter, let’s turn our attention to bullpen arms. Though this offseason’s crop of free agent relievers has plenty of interesting options, headlined by relief aceJosh Hader, all 30 clubs are constantly on the loo...