Two months into the 2024 season, no MLB team can say it’s truly at full strength. Every club deals with injuries, and all 30 teams have at least one Major League player on the injured list. Some players are out for the rest of the season, while some are
And don’t look past the emotional factor of having Andrew McCutchen, not to mention the on-field boost: He's still a good hitter (especially against lefties), after all. A lot of this may rely on what Oneil Cruz can turn into: He’s an otherworldly talent, albeit one who is not...
but Bieber is a strike-throwing machine who had a nearly 20 percent strikeout-minus-walk rate as a rookie. He throws hard enough at 92-94 mph, but he will have to improve his changeup to fare better against lefties (who slugged .547 off him). He's another guy who had a great sp...
The switch-hitting Bell figures to step right into regular first base duty in Arizona. Though his splits are pretty even this season, Bell has performed better against lefties than against righties in recent years, so the D’Backs might look to use him in something of a platoon with a lef...
The news doesn’t come as a shock. Teams generally don’t like to have managers operating in a lame-duck position. The Yankees did it with Boone once before, in 2021, though that was a rare occurrence. He originally joined the Yankees via a three-year deal going into 2018, with a cl...
David Ortiz will be 40 years old as he enters the final year of his career, and last season it took him awhile to get started against lefties. But the lineup depth should help the Red Sox overcome some of these problems, given the presence of Xander Bogaerts, Mookie Betts, Dustin ...
Given the team's struggles against lefties, adding some right-handed pop to the lineup is also high on Boston's to-do list this winter. Where they fit that righty into the mix is a big conundrum for Breslow, but anything should be on the table. ...
(31.3). Every player in the team’sgo-to lineupwas in the organization by last July, and most long before that. For the bench and a platooning role, the Mets signed outfielder Tommy Pham, who has played mostly against lefties so far, and outfielder Tim Locastro, who has never hit ...
MLB totals, or over/unders, are popular wagers that can swing in a hurry. No total bet is safe until the very end. Teams down to their final out can still rip off two or three-run rallies to swing totals bets. Paying attention to hitter-friendly parks, weather, trends and especially ...
He’s also a perfectly reasonable hitter against righties, which is the exact kind of platoon player you want; he can get natural and infrequent rest days against lefties, killing two birds with one stone. There are certainly risks in Kiermaier’s profile. He’s entering his age-34 season...