With spring training in full swing and Opening Day three weeks away, it’s time for my annual offseason report card that includes a breakdown of every team’s major-league signings and…
It’s time for another round of the tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias MLB franchise rankings. First, a change: Rather than span the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) as…
If you ask FanGraphs for the greatest seasons by WAR for hitters aged 24 or younger, the stats machine spits out a leaderboard starting with six Hall of Famers: Lou…
When I rank prospects every offseason here at The Athletic, I’m considering the players’ eventual peaks and their long-term values, which is why you’ll see prospects who were just drafted…
By Chad Jennings, Aaron Gleeman and Tim Britton The semester was about to end, and too many of our students still hadn’t finished their homework, much less taken their final…
Here in the frozen north country, we feel more February heat from our toaster than from the sun. But that isn’t the kind of heat this column cares about right…
Pitchers and catchers have officially reported, full-squad workouts are almost here and spring training games start in a week. Although there are still some quality free agents on the market,…
It was just last spring, in this very space, that we wrote these fateful words: In recent years, the good old blockbuster spring training trade has become more rarified than…
It seems like only yesterday that some of us were wielding our largest snow shovels to burrow a path from the front door back to what passes for winter civilization…
With spring training finally here, I thought it would be fun to hand out MLB offseason awards to the teams, players, managers, front-office executives and agents who have defined this…
