Athletics Rumors & News

The Athletic "The Phillies, Blue Jays, Angels and Rangers must decide what to do with their interim managers. The Marlins need to find a replacement for Don Mattingly. The White Sox and Royals almost certainly will make changes in the dugout; and..." October 01

ESPN "This year's MLB playoff format will include the largest field ever for a full season, with 12 of the 30 teams (40%) retaining title hopes. For the other 60%, the start of the 2022 postseason means the start of the offseason. For these 18 clubs, the focus is now on 2023 and beyond...." October 01

CBS Sports "Aaron Judge launched his 61st home run of the year on Wednesday against the Toronto Blue Jays, meaning he's now tied Roger Maris' single-season records for both the New York Yankees franchise and the American League as a whole. Seeing as how Judge is also..." September 29

Bleacher Report "The 2022 MLB season is winding to a close, and for more than half the league the focus will shift to the offseason in a matter of days, as only 12 teams will punch tickets to the postseason. From legitimate World Series contenders to cellar-dwellers, every team has at least one..." September 29

The Score "The 2022 Major League Baseball season is heading toward the finish line, and there are a number of intriguing items that still haven't been resolved. From Aaron Judge's Triple Crown chase to some undetermined winners of baseball hardware, the campaign's final week should..." September 29

CBS Sports "Earlier this month, Major League Baseball's competition committee voted to implement several rule changes for the 2023 season, including the installation of a pitch clock. As part of commissioner Rob Manfred's latest attempt to combat the sport's perceived pace-of-play issues,..." September 29

The Athletic "You remember the hits, of course. You remember when a pitching model that attempts to take the noise out by focusing on stuff and locations alone helps you find players like Shane McClanahan, Dylan Cease, Sandy Alcantara, Spencer Strider, Zac Gallen, Adam..." September 29

CBS Sports "Less than one week remains in the 2022 MLB regular season and next Friday the postseason will begin with the best-of-three Wild Card Series. Baseball has a new 12-team postseason format and it remains to be seen whether it improves the product. I was skeptical of the Wild Card Game at first,..." September 29

The Athletic "One of the most important lessons I learned working in MLB front offices for more than a quarter century, including 16 years as a general manager, is that a team’s weaknesses will be exposed in the playoffs. Every team has weaknesses, even the heavyweights in this postseason’s..." September 28

MLB Trade Rumors "With the offseason drawing nearer, MLBTR will be breaking down the free-agent class on a position-by-position basis. MLBTR’s Anthony Franco already profiled this winter’s crop of catchers and first basemen. You can check out the full list of this..." September 28

Bleacher Report "With focus shifting to the MLB postseason in less than 10 days, the majority of fanbases are looking ahead to 2023 with hopes they can be in this position next year. This season was full of surprises, from the Baltimore Orioles emerging from worst in the AL to above .500 playoff..." September 28

Bleacher Report "It's only been a couple of days since Albert Pujols joined Babe Ruth, Henry Aaron and Barry Bonds in Major League Baseball's hallowed 700 home run club. You can expect the wait for the next new member to last not days, weeks, months or even years, but decades. Is this stating..." September 28

Bleacher Report "Major League Baseball's 2022 regular season will end in a little over a week on Oct. 5, so it's about time to get to know the playoff picture in depth. This is the part where everyone should take a deep breath, because suffice it to say, there's a heck of a lot that still..." September 27

Bleacher Report "Welcome to our final regular-season edition of the 2022 MLB hitter rankings, otherwise known as "Aaron Judge and the Mere Mortals." St. Louis' Paul Goldschmidt had been holding down our No. 1 spot for months, but while the Cardinals first baseman has faded in recent..." September 27

MLB Trade Rumors "As the offseason approaches, MLBTR is taking a position-by-position look at the upcoming free agent class. Today, we’ll focus on first base, a group with a few well-regarded veterans coming off quality seasons at the top.   Top of the..." September 27

ESPN "With the New York Yankees facing a surplus of starting pitching options heading into the postseason, manager Aaron Boone said it would be "tough" for the team to get pitcher Frankie Montas back in time for the playoff rotation. "I do think there's a chance..." September 26

Bleacher Report "Don't worry about trying to slug through the final couple of weeks of the MLB regular season. Playoffs are around the corner, and we should have a good feel for who the top contenders will be in October. The NL East race is still compelling, with the New York Mets..." September 24

Clutch Points "The MLB offseason hasn’t even started, and the race for the top names in the league are on. One of the biggest names available in the offseason is Jacob deGrom, who has publicly stated that he will test free agency in 2023. Because of that, teams like the Atlanta Braves are already..." September 23

Bleacher Report "Over the course of a 162-game MLB season, the cream eventually rises to the top, and the bad teams lose roughly two out of every three games in the battle for draft position. But shrink the sample size down to a month, a week, a series or even a single game, and some truly weird..." September 23

Bleacher Report "There is something about heartbreak as a sports fan that sticks with you above almost anything else, even the ultimate success. As a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, the 2003 season is just as vivid a memory for me as the 2016 World Series title, and every fanbase has that missed..." September 23

The Athletic "Umpire Angel Hernandez responded to Major League Baseball in court Wednesday as part of his long-running discrimination lawsuit, accusing the league of a “hit piece” and “ad hominem attacks” for pointing out his three overturned calls in Game 3 of the..." September 23

Bleacher Report "For MLB fans of teams that have fallen out of the postseason race, the focus has already turned to the rapidly approaching offseason and what promises to be another exciting free-agency circus headlined by Aaron Judge and Trea Turner. As the regular season winds to a close and before..." September 22

The Athletic "We know the rules will be different next season. We don’t know which players will be hurt or helped the most, though. There will be a pitch clock, set at 15 seconds with nobody on base. The bases will be bigger. To combat excessive shifting, infielders will have to be..." September 22

Bleacher Report "The Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals and Arizona Diamondbacks have been playing for a whole lot of nothing over the second half of the 2022 MLB season, but try telling that to Nathaniel Lowe, Joey Meneses and Zac Gallen, who have been producing at an All-Star level for the past two..." September 22

Real GM Baseball "Oakland Athletics catcher Stephen Vogt will retire after 10 Major League seasons. Vogt broke into the Majors at 27 and endured an 0-for-32 hitless streak to start his career. " September 22

MLB.com "One of the most inevitable subplots of the 2022 Mets season reached its climax on Wednesday, when the club set a modern AL/NL record with its 106th hit batsman of the season. It’s a mark that no one on the Mets wished to achieve. “It’s like a broken record..." September 22

CBS Sports "Aaron Judge is having a season for the ages. We already knew that, but he went deep again Tuesday night and it was No. 60. He's now the sixth player in MLB history to hit 60 home runs in a single regular season.  One of the many topics on our minds is who..." September 21

The Athletic "The Reds have a shot at becoming the first team in the modern era of Major League Baseball to hit 100 batters, setting a new record with 99 in 2022 on Tuesday. Reds rookie starter Nick Lodolo hit three Red Sox batters in Tuesday’s game to..." September 21

The Athletic "Being a general manager is not a popularity contest. Sometimes, making an unpopular trade is the right decision for a franchise. To most Nationals fans, dealing superstar Juan Soto to the Padres at the trade deadline was the most unpopular trade of the..." September 20

MLB Trade Rumors "Six teams are set to pay penalties under the newly restructured competitive balance/luxury tax for their 2022 payrolls, per a report from the Associated Press. Each of the Mets, Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, Padres and Red Sox is currently over the threshold. That marks just the second time..." September 20

Clutch Points "The Los Angeles Dodgers are not just the class of the National League, but the best team in all of baseball. But is this Dodgers team destined to reach the World Series. As baseball fans know, the best team doesn’t always reach the Fall Classic… just ask the 2019..." September 20

ESPN "There have been 12 single-game tiebreakers in MLB history. Each of them brought the nerves and anticipation of a playoff matchup, even though they were played as regular-season games -- but game No. 163 is now a thing of the past. With an expanded playoff format launching this..." September 20

MLB Trade Rumors "There’s only two weeks left in the regular season, and half the league is all but officially out of postseason contention at this point. All 30 teams are assuredly looking ahead to the offseason to some extent, and that’s all the more true for the clubs that are merely playing out..." September 20

ESPN "With the end of the season nearing, it's time to look back at some of the best performances of the season in the minors. I want to apply the way scouts grade specific players' tools -- for the bigger fans of the prospect game, you're well acquainted with the 20-80 scouting scale --..." September 19

The Athletic "There’s a thing I’ve noticed about sports: When you change the rules, stuff happens. So here we are, a week or so after baseball announced its three most tide-shifting rule changes in almost half a century — pitch clock, shift limits and bases the size of..." September 19

Bleacher Report "Pretty much every Major League Baseball team regrets something it did or did not do at the trade deadline on August 2. But some of those regrets are bigger than others. Could the New York Mets and Chicago White Sox have done more to improve their rosters ahead of the..." September 17

The Athletic "The photo is fuzzy, snapped in a surreptitious hurry, but its lack of focus does little to obscure what appears to be obvious: T.J. Friedl is straight up not having a good time. The outfielder stands in the middle distance, arms crossed and hips slightly forward, eye black on and his cap pulled..." September 17

Bleacher Report "With mere weeks standing between him and a date with Major League Baseball's free-agent market, Trea Turner just made it easier to speculate about where he'll end up. Though the Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop told Bill Plunkett of the Orange..." September 16

Bleacher Report "New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge is putting the finishing touches on one of the most impressive contract years in baseball history, and a massive payday awaits this offseason as he tests the free-agent waters for the first time in his career. That got us to thinking about some..." September 16

MLB.com "It's getting late in the day and Giants reliever John Brebbia has just finished his workout. He can already feel the soreness creeping in. He gathers up his glove and bags and begins heading home. There's an afternoon game tomorrow, so he has to get to bed early. But..." September 16

Bleacher Report "Two of the best players in baseball are set to reach free agency for the first time this winter as New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge and Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner will take their tremendous talent to the open market. Whether those two major market teams are able..." September 15

The Score "Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star shortstop Trea Turner will be one of this offseason's marquee free agents and he says he's keeping his options open. "I'm an East Coast guy. But with free agency, you get a chance to pick and control it as much as you can in..." September 15

CBS Sports "Throughout the season the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the future of baseball, all sorts of stuff. Last week we debated the NL East race. This week..." September 15

The Athletic "Only three more weeks remain in the MLB regular season and the postseason races are heating up. The Braves trail the Mets by only half a game in the National League East and the White Sox are just three back of the Guardians in the American..." September 15

Bleacher Report "Regardless of who faces whom, Major League Baseball's 2022 postseason will be a thrilling ride for 26-30 days. But there are a handful of possible matchups that would really move the proverbial needle. For this discussion, all forms of matchups are on the..." September 15

Bleacher Report "The Major League Baseball season is in its stretch run midway through September. It's the time of year when records are being chased and awards positioning is solidified. This season particularly is compelling with Aaron Judge chasing Roger Maris' home run record, Shohei..." September 15

CBS Sports "At long last, there will be a union for minor-league baseball players. The news has been building the last few weeks, and on Wednesday, an arbiter approved the MiLB players union authorization cards, which showed there was enough support from minor leaguers to join the MLB Players..." September 15

The Athletic "Is the battle against spin hopeless? Spin rates around baseball are climbing back up — almost back to where they were before baseball started to more actively enforce the foreign substance rules mid-season last year — and it’s probably due to some sort of evolution in the..." September 14

ESPN "Less than a month remains in baseball's regular season, and with October bound to breeze by as it always does, free agency is nearly upon Major League Baseball. The 2022-23 class is solid, headlined by a mix of MVP-caliber hitters and elite, wizened pitchers. If you need a..." September 14

Bleacher Report "If the New York Yankees don't at least make it to the World Series next month, will Aaron Boone return in 2023 as the manager of the pinstripes? Is the sixth losing season in seven years under Don Mattingly enough for the Miami Marlins to move on from Donnie..." September 13