When the Mets are playing well -- and the Mets are playing very well right now -- no fanbase loves their team more, or is more aggrieved when the rest of the baseball world does not take appropriate notice. It’s actually wonderful: Fandom is meant to be experienced in the

One of the most famous, if amusing, images in baseball history is George Brett sprinting out of the Yankee Stadium dugout screaming at anyone resembling an umpire after they called him out for having too much pine tar on his bat in 1983. (Imagine if that happened today. The GIFs

Whew! It has been 10 days since Opening Day, and has it ever been a whirlwind. There are teams off to torrid starts, there are teams that haven’t really gotten out of the starting gate yet and there is Juan Soto … well, being Juan Soto. If you had trouble

There is a baseball game on Wednesday. Wednesday! Sure, the 28 Major League Baseball teams that aren’t in South Korea right now don’t get to play for another 10 days or so, but nevertheless: The Dodgers and Padres are playing some baseball on Wednesday. Which means it’s time for Power

Congratulations, you’ve made it to 2024. Baseball is that rare professional sport that takes place entirely in one calendar year. So, if you were unhappy with how 2023 went for your team, that’s all in the past. And if you were happy … well, now you get to cheer for

All right, so the Hot Stove is just now starting to warm up, and none of the big dominos have fallen. We don’t know where any of the top free agents are going, or what trades teams are going to make, or even, in some cases, who is going to

As much fun as the Power Rankings have been to be a part of this year, it must be said that there is a certain excitement to have reached the final installment of the regular season -- and, thus, the first installment of the postseason. You will notice that there

The time has come for our final edition of Power Rankings in 2023, as we embark on the final week of the regular season. We have a slight shakeup in the top five this week, with a National League power moving up and a perennial World Series contender dropping out

Four teams punched their ticket to the 2023 postseason over the past week, and fittingly, those four teams sit atop our Power Rankings. But much like many of the other postseason races, things get pretty crowded after that. It was a tight battle for the No. 5 spot – and

With approximately 20 games remaining in the regular season, plenty of races are still yet to be decided. The NL East and NL West races are all but over, with the Braves and Dodgers leading their respective divisions by double digits. You could make an argument that the Twins, with

We have reached the point in the season when, even with an extra day added to the week because of the Labor Day holiday, it’s difficult for teams to make too much of a leap in our weekly Power Rankings. Teams that have gotten hot recently have made their push

A few postseason races have been decided, but there is still plenty to pay attention to as baseball’s schedule enters its final month. Of all the still-undetermined positioning, the NL Wild Card race is arguably the most compelling. The Phillies have a 3 1/2-game cushion in the top spot, but

The very top of our Power Rankings this week hasn’t changed all that much, but that doesn’t mean some big moves aren’t being made throughout the remainder of the list. In particular, the latest rankings feature a pair of American League teams moving rapidly in opposite directions -- one is

It is one thing to make (or not to make) moves at the Trade Deadline, but until games start up again with new rosters and major players in new cities nobody actually knows how it will all play out. We’ve now had a full 11 days of baseball since our

The Trade Deadline is but one mere day on the calendar, but all you have to do is take a look at how much every team’s rosters have changed since you last checked to understand how much of a difference the Deadline can make. Buyers, sellers, holders, hedgers -- they

Some lengthy streaks – of both the winning and losing variety – led to quite the shakeup in this week’s Power Rankings. Well, except for the top spot. The Braves remained the unanimous No. 1 team, but there is a new team nipping at their heels this week. There was

We all had a fun time with the All-Star Game festivities, as we always do. We hope you are enjoying your breather, because break time is almost over: It’s time to get revved up again. In many ways, these are the most pivotal weeks of the season coming up, when

The final Power Rankings before next week’s All-Star break feature a new No. 1 team for the first time in two and a half months. Though the Rays set the pace for nearly the entire first half, the red-hot Braves returned to No. 1 for the first time since April

While there were no changes within the Top 5 this week, things are certainly tightening up atop the Power Rankings. A team other than the Rays received a first-place vote for the first time in months, and eight teams earned Top 5 consideration -- including three NL West clubs that

The Reds made the playoffs in 2020, which, even with the expanded format, is not nothing. But still: They haven’t won a postseason game since 2012, when Dusty Baker was their manager, and they haven’t won a postseason series since ... would you believe, 1995? The winning pitcher in the

The Dodgers have won the National League West every single season but one since 2013, and the one season they didn’t, they won 106 games and beat the division champion Giants in the NL Division Series. The D-backs, meanwhile, have reached the playoffs only once in that span (2017), and

A pair of clubs that started the season strong before hitting a rough patch last month made big moves in this week’s Power Rankings thanks to wins in five of six games last week. Meanwhile, a postseason club from last fall with high expectations this year saw a significant drop

Contrary to what your memory might tell you, the Rangers have in fact made the postseason since their crushing loss in the 2011 World Series, during which they were one strike away from winning their first championship. One strike away, twice. They’ve reached the playoffs three times since then: A

The season is a little more than one-quarter complete, and while a few teams have risen to the top of their division standings with commanding leads, no one has separated themselves from the competition with a double-digit advantage. Even the Rays, who, if they keep this up, could threaten the

While the Rays continue to hold down the top spot in this week's Power Rankings, a familiar National League powerhouse is charging up the standings -- and a new contender has seemingly emerged in the American League West. Though the top two spots remained the same, there was plenty of