Anthony Castrovince

It’s been a minute since strangers have yelled at me on the internet, so it must be time to post my top 10 lineups for 2025! As always, this is an inexact science, because baseball, despite all the incredible data readily available to us, remains an inexact science. I don’t

Hate to go all Grampa Simpson on you, but back in my day, children, we had something called “rotations” and “bullpens,” and I would use this space to rank them separately. Ah, but baseball has changed. And knowing what we know about the attrition rate and how pitchers are utilized,

There are so many bold predictions out in the sporting atmosphere that I’ve lost track of what qualifies as truly bold anymore. But in an annual exercise in fun and futility, I’m going to forecast some outcomes for the 2025 MLB season that I think would catch most observers off-guard.

Roy Hobbs, the fabled swinger of his beloved “Wonderboy,” might disagree. But there really is no such thing as a “magic bat.” When MLB hitters select their sticks, they must make certain compromises. The longer a bat, for instance, the more difficult it is to control through the zone. The

The “Grandson of the Wind” is blowing through MLB this season. Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee descends from Korean baseball royalty. His father, Jong Beom Lee, called the “Son of the Wind,” was a Korean Baseball Organization MVP, six-time Golden Glove winner, 13-time All-Star and two-time Korean Series MVP

When he struggles on the diamond, when the strikeouts mount and the pressure ramps up, young Nationals outfielder Dylan Crews thinks about his friend Aubrey White.

It seems like Ben Rice was born for this. As a Massachusetts boy surrounded by Red Sox fans, he was no Fenway fanatic but, rather, a disciple of Derek Jeter. No. 2 was his No. 1, giving him a passion for the pinstripes. That made for some awkward encounters in

Mike Hazen had just hung up the phone, having spoken with me about the Diamondbacks' upcoming “Brain Tumor Awareness Night,” a pregame event Tuesday night at Chase Field in which the Ivy Brain Tumor Center that treated his late wife's fatal glioblastoma will receive a donation from the

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