Fernando Tatis Jr. is arguably the best young player in baseball. The 21-year-old shortstop for the San Diego Padres is posting a .305/.383/.726 slash line at the plate and leads MLB in home runs with 11 in the first 23 games of the new season. Tatis’ greatness was on full display against the Texas Rangers on Monday night, and it led to the type of non-sensical controversy that only baseball...Read More
TrackMan Baseball has provided ESPN with tons of data to use on the broadcast of the Major League Baseball draft on Wednesday and Thursday, so you’ll see it peppered throughout both visually and verbally. I wanted to take a chance to include lots of those notes you’ll see and hear and also throw in a bunch of other stuff, to illustrate the sort of data that until now only teams...Read More
It’s the best kind of recurring dream. The baseball kind. The MLB Dream Bracket is back with a Dream Seasons edition, as 64 of the greatest single-season teams in history will compete in a simulated tournament that begins Thursday, May 21, and runs through Tuesday, June 9. • Team-by-team Dream Bracket 2 rosters Whereas the original Dream Bracket involved each franchise’s all-time team — commingling legends of yore with prominent...Read More
The American League Champions, Kansas City Royals announced today that their #1 Prospect, SS Raul Mondesi will be making his way to the biggest stage in all of baseball. Mondesi will be making his highly anticipated debut in the 2015 World Series. Mondesi has performed as expected throughout his career. As an amateur, scouts projected that he would be an impact player at the MLB level, and a potential All-Star...Read More
The Dominican Prospect League (DPL) has established itself as the largest player in the international signing period over its six years of existence, producing the most prospect to sign professional baseball contracts of any entity in the world. The DPL, who have helped close to 60 prospects reach agreements since July 2nd 2015, also shattered the record for total bonuses awarded to 16 year old players in the first week...Read More
