MLB

I’m so tired of hearing, “Well, every owner is a billionaire, tell yours to spend like the Dodgers.” Okay.. HOW? Because this Dodgers competitive advantage goes WAY beyond one billionaire simply caring more than another. The Dodgers are expected to shield more than $1.3 BILLION from revenue sharing over the 25-year life of their local-TV...

Pittsburgh’s mayor is not hiding the ball on this one. Acrisure Stadium and PNC Park both need work, and Corey O’Connor says Pittsburgh stadium public funding belongs in the conversation. His logic is simple enough. The city pulls tax money out of those two buildings, so keeping them standing is good for everybody. Fine. Both...

Cal Raleigh hit 60 home runs last season. Right now he is hitting .159, and that number still does not look real. Line him up next to a couple of other guys and the World Baseball Classic hangover stops sounding like an excuse and starts sounding like the only answer anybody has. Start with Raleigh,...

A Shohei Ohtani opt out is the single most powerful card anyone could hold in professional baseball, and we found out this week he is never going to play it. The Athletic reported that even if Mark Walter sells the Dodgers, Ohtani isn’t going anywhere.. and look, I get it. I just don’t respect it....

Tarik Skubal is a Dodger and I am out on this sport. Not the season, the sport. There is no reason to watch this anymore and I’m not going to sit here and pretend otherwise for four more months. Every Skubal trade salary cap argument you’re going to read this week is going to get...

34,406 people in Detroit stood up twice on Wednesday for a guy their own team spent February telling an arbitration panel was overpaid. If you want to know why the Tigers are trading Tarik Skubal, and it sure looks like they are, stop looking at the standings. Look at February. Why the Tigers are trading...

MLB owners are ready to cancel the whole 2027 season and I hope they do it. I’m a Pirates fan. What the hell are you threatening me with? This is what baseball needs, a cap and a floor. A real MLB salary floor, not the soft one these guys just put on paper. Some of...

There’s no way this is a serious team. That’s the only conclusion I’ve got after reading Bob Nightengale’s report on the Pirates trade deadline plan, which is apparently to be aggressive, as long as being aggressive costs zero extra dollars. What do you mean you want to be aggressive at the deadline but you’re not...

Ernie Clement almost beat Shohei Ohtani in the MLB All-Star fan vote this year and I need you to actually sit with that for a second, because it explains every single thing wrong with how this whole thing gets decided. The MLB All-Star Fan Vote Just Handed Ernie Clement Ohtani’s Spotlight Clement’s a good story,...

The World Baseball Classic curse talk is back, and this time it’s not even a stretch, because the actual tournament MVP is out here having a worse year than the guy who just got shredded for seven runs in four innings. That’s not a joke. That’s just where the sport is right now in July....

The 2026 MLB trade deadline is August 3rd, and the market is actually good this year. There’s a two-time Cy Young winner sitting on a 32-44 team with no path back. A franchise gave up two top-30 prospects six months ago for a rental pitcher and is now 34-42. A front office in San Francisco...

So I’m sitting there watching Canada hang six on Qatar yesterday and somewhere around the second red card, when Qatar’s down to nine guys defending a World Cup match with two fewer humans than everybody else on the grass, all I could think was damn, that sucks, and then about four seconds later the better...

I’m not sitting here and watching five teams waste this. The White Sox are leading the AL Central, the A’s are at the Wild Card cut line, the Marlins are on a nine-game win streak, the Cubs are half a game out of a playoff spot, and the Pittsburgh Pirates are right there with Paul...

Every Tarik Skubal trade conversation in baseball is about to get very real, because the man has back-to-back Cy Young awards, the best single-season K-to-walk ratio in the history of Major League Baseball at 13.14, went 18-4 with a 2.39 ERA in 2024 to win the AL pitching Triple Crown, then posted a 2.21 ERA...

Bryce Harper sat in a chair holding a bat last July while Rob Manfred talked to the Phillies about baseball’s economics. Harper sat quiet for most of the hour. Then he stood up, walked toward the middle of the room, and told the commissioner to get out of his clubhouse if the MLB salary cap...

Tatsuya Imai walked three of his first four batters tonight, loaded the bases in the first inning against the Texas Rangers, and got bailed out when someone hit into a double play. He then pitched five more hitless innings, walked a fourth batter, and got pulled. Steven Okert came in, walked a fifth Rangers batter,...

Juan Soto’s team is in last place. The small market teams in 2026 are the best story in baseball right now, and the New York Mets, who have spent something approaching half a billion dollars on payroll and luxury tax over the last two years, are doing more to make the case for them than...

FIFA just tripled the price of a World Cup final ticket to $32,970, for a tournament they promised would top out at $1,550, and Donald Trump told the press he wouldn’t pay $1,000 to watch a group stage match at the same tournament he spent two years championing. WWE cut nearly 30 wrestlers two days...