The New York Mets have re-signed outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to a four-year, $110M deal. The deal comes as a bit of a surprise, as the two sides were expected to wait until the Winter Meetings to get a deal done. This signing was the opposite of last winter’s, which was ...

Remember when the New York Yankees used to spend and at times, overspend for players in free agency? Those days appear to be over. It’s been well documented and reported that they want to re-sign Aroldis Chapman and make him the closer again, and it’s also been reported that Chapman ...

Veteran catcher Yadier Molina has formally committed to Team Puerto Rico for the upcoming World Baseball Classic. This is the guy for Puerto Rico, as Yadi has played in all three Classics. The Molina family are well-known in Puerto Rican baseball, as his father Benjamin Sr. is the all-time hits ...

Growing up, baseball was everything to me. I started t-ball at the age of five and continued the baseball journey through high school. I played the sport in organized venues, and I played pick-up games with groups of kids from around the neighborhood. I played catch with my brother and ...

Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is making another splash in Major League Baseball news. In early September, the New York Mets announced that they signed Tebow to a minor league deal, that included a signing bonus of $100,000. At the time, the former Heisman Trophy winner hadn’t played any real ...

Let me ask you, the reader, a very simple baseball question. How many times have you heard the “that’s a record that will never be broken” phrase? I assume that is something you hear quite often, especially when it comes to the individual records of Joe DiMaggio’s 56 consecutive games hitting streak, ...

“Say it ain’t so, Joe.” It is one of the most gut-wrenching lines to ever be uttered in baseball lore. The line that made fans in Chicago hope that one of their heroes did not do the unthinkable, bet on baseball and throw away the 1919 World Series. The “Black ...

The sport of baseball has always been tightly coupled with pranks and practical jokes. Maybe it’s because players spend 162 games together, live in close quarters for nearly half a year, or that the flow of the game allows for the shenanigans of the clown. Regardless of why it happens, ...

Today should be a momentous day as every player on every team in Major League Baseball should be wearing No. 21. Now you may wonder why I say such a thing. It’s because today is the great Roberto Clemente’s birthday. Everyone knows that there is only one player whose number has ...

The 2015 MLB trade deadline as come and gone, and there was a whirlwind of movement made. Over the course of the last few weeks, leading up to and including the deadline date of July 31, there were a total of 43 trades made, with 29 of the 30 teams ...