Athletics

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...

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...