Mike Petriello

For years, Luis Arraez rated as something like the weakest defensive second baseman in the game, an opinion the Padres validated when they moved him off the position to be primarily a first baseman/DH over the last two seasons. Despite that, Arraez bet on himself last winter, taking a one-year

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. just finished off the weakest full month of his career (.498 OPS), which might be written off as a slump, if not for the fact that it followed the third-weakest month of his career (May’s .623 OPS), which might itself be a minor concern if not for

Somewhat lost in all of Sunday’s drama about the Marlins lifting Eury Pérez after seven perfect innings was that it wasn’t just about pitch count, health, modern analytics, or whatever narrative you choose to apply. It’s exactly what manager Clayton McCullough said it was. It’s that the goal here isn’t

What makes for a successful evening in the Home Run Derby? It’s an incredibly difficult thing to prognosticate. That’s in part because it’s an annual exhibition of one single skill, with regularly changing rules and formats, but also because the eight participants each year have already been cherrypicked because they’re

Last winter, we raised a bit of an alarm, noting that the hardest player to find in the offseason was going to be a right-handed bat, specifically outfielders, as it had been decades since we’d had that few regular, righty outfielders with above-average bats. That mostly came to pass; almost

With so many metrics out there in the baseball world, sometimes the hardest thing to do is to collect them, to know where to look and to see what's changed over time -- to settle arguments, or create new ones. With the new Baseball Savant Statcast Player Comparison tool, maybe

In the midst of a wild 8-6 Cubs loss to Detroit on Monday, Pete Crow-Armstrong did something that he’s done so often that it almost feels routine: He made a truly great defensive play. Stunning, we know: The defending Gold Glover, who rates as the best non-catcher defender in baseball

For all the rumors flying ahead of the Trade Deadline about who will get traded, or not, and where, and for whom, there’s one name that stands out above all others as being the most interesting. OK, fine, there’s two names, but we’re not talking about Tarik Skubal today. We’re

All the rumors finally came to fruition Saturday night when the Tigers made a deal to send Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers ahead of Monday's Trade Deadline. There’s a reason that nearly all the conversation around this particular Deadline has swirled around one particular pitcher, and it’s for a very

The biggest name the Cubs acquired at the Trade Deadline is probably Kevin Gausman, who once was the No. 4 overall pick in the Draft, who has garnered Cy Young votes in three different seasons and who started two World Series games last year. Maybe you prefer Clay Holmes, a