No matter what happens during the regular season, the postseason is a clean slate. For players whose seasons haven’t gone as expected, that means an opportunity at redemption. The eight players below have all underperformed in 2024, but they’ll have a chance to flip the script on the postseason stage

DETROIT -- The Tigers’ postseason chances, which have soared from less than 1 percent just over a month ago to 71 percent, according to FanGraphs, are about to get another boost: baseball’s top pitching prospect. Right-hander Jackson Jobe, baseball’s No. 6 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, is being called up

The final week of the regular season has arrived and there is plenty at stake. From a team perspective, there is still a battle for the final Wild Card spots in both leagues and the top teams trying to secure a first-round bye and home-field advantage. As enticing as these

The 2024 postseason is approaching. As you keep an eye on the standings, here is everything you need to know about how the playoff field is shaping up, as well as info about potential tiebreakers and clinch scenarios for each contender.

We have come to the final week of the MLB regular season, which means, after Sunday, we will say goodbye to 18 of the 30 teams in these rankings. Most of them have already been eliminated; the rest will fall away as the week goes along. But they all still

There’s one week left in the 2024 season and much is still undecided. That means there’s a good chance of at least a little chaos -- beautiful, beautiful baseball chaos. With some division titles still unclaimed and Wild Card races that could very well go down to the final day,

ATLANTA -- From Chipper Jones to Freddie Freeman to Matt Olson, the Braves have spent the past three decades or so serving as the Mets’ chief tormentors. For even the best New York teams over that time, the Braves have been the final boss. It was just two years ago

Maybe this is a season when the Yankees have once again saved their best ball until the end -- the way they used to -- and are finally ready to make it back to the World Series, and maybe even win one. It would mean that the third and final

With the regular season drawing to a close, Major League Baseball is set to achieve its second consecutive year of rising attendance. On the year, MLB games have drawn a total of 68,440,732 fans, up 0.7% compared to the same point in 2023, the first season after a number of

LOS ANGELES -- The Padres staged a dramatic eighth-inning comeback on Sunday afternoon. The Dodgers upstaged them with a wild ninth-inning rally, featuring back-to-back home runs from Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts. And now, the stage is set. The two fierce Southern California rivals begin a three-game series in Los

CINCINNATI -- Poor baserunning, poor defense and a young roster that didn't do enough to take the next step to make the Reds a playoff team in 2024 -- there wasn't one specific reason that president of baseball operations Nick Krall decided to fire manager David Bell on Sunday, but

With his team one win from clinching its seventh AL West title in the last eight seasons, Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez was out of the starting lineup for the series opener against the Mariners on Monday, a day after he exited a loss to the Angels with a right knee

LOS ANGELES -- There are a lot of things the Dodgers could -- and need to -- fix before the start of their postseason run. Those are all pretty obvious, starting with their starting pitching. But in the end, the Dodgers also have something no other team in the field

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BALTIMORE -- Amid the buzz of a jubilant Tigers clubhouse after Sunday’s 4-3 win over the Orioles, Jace Jung pointed to his neighbor, Parker Meadows, and smiled. “That guy’s Superman,” the rookie third baseman said of his former Triple-A Toledo teammate. “He flies through the air.”

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Every so often, Ichiro Suzuki pops up to show that he’s still got it. Last year, the baseball legend took the mound in his annual All-Star Game against the best high school girls players in Japan and threw a complete-game shutout on 116 pitches, striking out nine batters.

OAKLAND -- There will be no more A’s baseball at the Coliseum by the end of this week. It is a reality that has not quite set in for players, coaches or fans of the A’s. Generations of green and gold royalty have played a huge role in making this

NEW YORK -- As soon as Edwin Díaz walked off the Citi Field mound in the eighth inning Sunday night, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza approached him to say he wanted Díaz to pitch the ninth, as well. “We’ve been protecting him the whole year,” Mendoza explained afterward. “And now it’s

SAN DIEGO -- White Sox interim manager Grady Sizemore understands the interest in his 2024 squad reaching 120 losses, which it did with a 4-2 setback against the Padres on Sunday afternoon at Petco Park. That defeat tied the South Siders with the 1962 Mets for the most losses in

Now that the Tigers have put themselves above the line in the American League Wild Card standings, they aim to keep themselves there with six games remaining. So they’re bringing up a major reinforcement -- the top pitching prospect in baseball. Detroit is calling up No. 6 overall prospect Jackson

It was hardly a shocker by the time assistant general manager Kevan Graves announced on 93.7 The Fan Sunday afternoon that Ke'Bryan Hayes would not be able to return to game action in 2024, but that doesn’t make the blow much easier for the Pirates’ third baseman.

MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers are still the only team in Major League Baseball that hasn't suffered a four-game losing streak, and it took their biggest comeback in 20 years to keep it that way. Down eight runs by the middle of the third inning and still down three in the

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