NEW YORK — Craig Breslow made several significant moves to retool the Boston Red Sox roster this offseason, chief among them the high-profile additions of left-hander Garrett Crochet, third baseman Alex Bregman, and closer Aroldis Chapman. Though all three players made enormous impacts all season, battling in pressure-packed environments tends to be their specialty. For…
“If it was easy, it would’ve been done long ago.” Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten wasn’t describing the goal of winning back-to-back World Series titles, something the club is aiming to do for the first time ever this October. Rather, he was referencing a different franchise first. In their final home game of the…
Chances are good that, at the end of the 2025 MLB postseason, a team that hasn’t won a championship for a very long time is going to hoist the Commissioner’s Trophy. That’s because, of the 14 teams that haven’t won a World Series for at least 25 years now, seven of them are in this…
In betting, there are the favorites and then there are trendy choices. And ahead of this MLB postseason, it’s possible you can find a team that is both. At BetMGM, the Milwaukee Brewers‘ opened the regular season with +3500 odds to win the World Series. But after finishing the regular season with the best overall…
Each of the 12 MLB playoff teams can win the World Series, right? Some are expected to, while others are just relieved to reach October. Each team has plenty of reasons as to why they’ll be hoisting the Commissioner’s Trophy in five weeks’ time – and several for why they’ll fall short. FOX Sports MLB…
For all the problems the Mets had in their disappointing season, falling one win short of the playoffs after being 21 games above .500 in June, David Stearns believes a lack of leadership was not one of them. “I think we have leaders in our clubhouse,” the Mets president of baseball operations said on Monday…
The Minnesota Twins fired manager Rocco Baldelli on Monday, ending his seven-year tenure that included three AL Central titles but only one playoff appearance over his final five seasons. Baldelli’s dismissal came after a second straight dispiriting finish by the Twins, this one marked by a major selloff leading up to the trade deadline. The…
The 2025 season is over. Mercifully so, for the Rockies. When September kicked off, Colorado looked as if they had a genuine chance at avoiding not just tying or breaking the modern loss record of 121 that the 2024 White Sox set, but might even manage to avoid being one of the 10-worst teams of…
MIAMI – In the final weeks of the regular season, as toothless as they were playing, there was just no way the New York Mets and their $340 million payroll would miss the playoffs, right? After all, they entered the final day of the season with the second-best offense in the National League, behind only the…
After seeing the season end earlier than expected, Mets first baseman Pete Alonso will have to make a choice about his future. The first baseman said after the Mets’ season-ending 4-0 loss to the Marlins that he will opt out of his contract and re-enter free agency. The Mets entered Sunday’s regular-season finale with hopes…
