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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

The Mets haven't missed a beat since infielder Luisangel Acuña was promoted to the big leagues on Sept. 14 and replaced the injured Francisco Lindor at shortstop. Entering Tuesday’s action against the Braves, Acuña has a slash line of .379/.400/.828 through nine games. In a recent sit-down with MLB.com at

CINCINNATI -- Manager Derek Shelton has not been afraid to use his voice to endorse players he felt are award-worthy. He has championed David Bednar being the team’s Roberto Clemente Award nominee in the past. In 2020 and 2021, he argued that Jacob Stallings should win a Gold Glove. And

SAN DIEGO -- Their weekend sweep of the White Sox complete, the Padres were finishing their handshake line on the infield grass, when, unprompted, the record-breaking Petco Park crowd broke out in unison: “Beat L.A.” Indeed, that’s the objective now.

OAKLAND -- The Yankees punched their ticket into the postseason during a successful West Coast trip, including a wet and wild celebration that toasted their return to the playoffs following a one-year absence. They’re jetting home with another party on deck. Aaron Judge hit his Major League-leading 55th home run,

BOSTON -- Triston Casas put on a show at Fenway Park. And the entire Red Sox team followed suit. The lefty slugger's three-homer game set the tone, as the Red Sox swept their doubleheader against the Twins on Sunday to take the series at Fenway. The Sox got back to

NEW YORK -- Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor said Sunday that he’s unlikely to play without back pain again this season, but he continues to progress toward a return that could occur as soon as Tuesday in Atlanta. “If I play this year, I don’t think it’s going to be pain-free,”

MIAMI -- The Braves knew they needed to to win their series vs. the Marlins this weekend. In the hunt for a postseason berth, Atlanta entered the series opener on Friday two games back from the Mets and D-backs for the third National League Wild Card spot. Three games later,

First off, I want to thank the loyal readers who regularly grabbed two-start pitcher advice from this column throughout the season. The final week of the regular season is always a chaotic event. No team plays seven games this week and several squads have moved to a six-man rotation, which

BOSTON -- The Twins’ postseason chances became more tenuous on Sunday, as they were swept in their doubleheader at Fenway Park, dropping the nightcap 9-3 after an 8-1 loss in Game 1. The Twins started the day with a half-game lead for the third American League Wild Card spot, but