Zach Crizer

Texas is making the most out of what it can do with budget constraints. It might not matter without a lot of internal improvement and a splashy addition or two.

Pete Alonso, Cameron Winter and the limits of fan empathy

Tucker's free agency may be a referendum not on his talents, but on how much best available is worth when MVP candidates are no longer hitting the market.

Plus: Venezuelan baseball impact, head-scratching deals for Japanese stars and Kyle Tucker's market

They say you don't play the games on paper, but for several months a year, that's exactly what teams do.

Last year, we gazed upon the prospect of predicting winners of the major MLB awards and decided it couldn't be as simple as Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, rinse and repeat.

As much as the past two World Series results might beg to differ, baseball is nearly impossible to predict.

Sometimes timing is everything. In baseball, timing can transform a good swing from a couple points of batting average to a couple runs – a simple crack of the bat into the roar of a game won.

Texas is staying afloat in a muddled A.L. West, and its two best hitters are back in the lineup. Now it's time to bring in reinforcements.

The division isn’t out of reach yet, but Texas didn’t act like a team in hot pursuit of it.