The first major domino of free agency fell Monday, as the Seattle Mariners signed first baseman Josh Naylor to a five-year, $92.5 million deal through the 2030 season. “I’m going to be a Mariner again and I couldn’t be more excited,” Naylor said in a Mariners press release. “From the moment I arrived, everyone in […]
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Boston Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman has won the Mariano Rivera American League Reliever of the Year, and New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz has won the Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the year. Chapman’s 2025 There weren’t a lot of high hopes for Chapman going into 2025, considering his 3.79 earned run average […]
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The Baseball Writers Association of America awarded Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani with his second consecutive NL MVP. The award was given out Thursday at the MLB Awards Show in Las Vegas. Counting this year, Ohtani has four league MVP’s to his name. He won it twice in the AL and twice in […]
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Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal won the 2025 AL Cy Young Award. After winning the coveted title after a dominant 2024, he ran it back this year, picking up 26 of 30 votes. He’s become the 12th pitcher to win consecutive Cy Young Awards. Here is the elite company Skubal joins and their dominant runs. […]
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Cleveland Guardians manager Stephen Vogt is the 2025 AL Manager of the Year. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced the winner on Tuesday. This is Vogt’s second straight time winning the award. Vogt joins Bobby Cox, Kevin Cash and Pat Murphy as the only managers to win the award in consecutive seasons. Murphy won the […]
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Chicago Cubs legend Kyle Hendricks has retired from Major League Baseball at the age of 35. The MLBPA announced his retirement Tuesday in a social media post. Hendricks will hang up his cleats after playing 12 seasons in the majors, 11 of which were with the Cubs. “Kyle Hendricks’ competitiveness and resourceful approach to pitching […]
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Nick Kurtz Unanimously Wins AL Rookie of the Year Athletics first baseman Nick Kurtz added another trophy to his quickly growing case Monday night: AL Rookie of the Year. Of surprise to few, if anyone, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) announced Kurtz as the unanimous 2025 winner. He is the second player from […]
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