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So how much does Shohei Ohtani really improve the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024?Much like Susie Izzard (Drink!) says chiropractors “LIVE FOR THE NOISE!” I too live for the noise of the offseason. We can’t get much more than Shohei Ohtani and his reps donated to us, or at least their methods of sending the baseball press into orbit did. There should be much more to come, but the...

Shohei Ohtani's most likely landing spot is the NL WestWe’ve come to the end of our tour of the islands of every MLB team’s offseason outlook. We wrap up in the NL West, still the favorite landing place for Shohei Ohtani, as two of the rivals here are going to duke it out to bring him either slightly up the coast or six hours up it. One more time…...

2023 MLB NL runs batted in leadersThis article is based on data from Sportradar. Text was compiled by an AI engine that was then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff....

Here are all the 40+ Home Run Seasons, by franchise, in MLB history

Immaculate Grid has been a hit with baseball stat geeks since its launch in April. While the stats puzzle has since expanded to basketball, football, and hockey, it’s still baseball that makes the game what it is. So if you need help filling out your daily grid, give these stats a look....

2023 MLB RBI leaders

This article is based on data from Sportradar. Text was compiled by an AI engine that was then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff....

2023 MLB HR leaders

This article is based on data from Sportradar. Text was compiled by an AI engine that was then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff....

What was Chaim Bloom supposed to do?

Just how well is a GM/executive reign supposed to go when the first task given to them is to trade the best player in baseball? That was the road set out for Chaim Bloom, who came to Fenway from Tampa, probably with hopes that he could set up a Rays-with-money set-up like Andrew Friedman in Los Ange...

Mookie Betts, not Ronald Acuña Jr., is the NL MVP

We’d all be better off if every MVP award was simply renamed, “Player Of The Year,” as it would save us a very annoying and tiresome debate about what “valuable” means. It gets doubly so in baseball, where we still haven’t quite escaped what numbers people should pay attention to, and what is overbl...