PASADENA, California (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is catching up with more legends. The baseball superstar ends 2025 by winning The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year award for the fourth time, tying him with Lance Armstrong, LeBron James and Tiger Woods for most male honorees. Advertisement “To receive this award multiple times is really…
New York Daily News | Gary Phillips: We’ve reached the eve of the Winter Meetings and we know what the stories are for the Yankees. New York wants to add one more outfielder, a starter, and shore up its relief depth, but no one knows how much Hal Steinbrenner is willing to spend to achieve…
For all the angst that comes with big nine-figure MLB contracts when they’re first signed (welcome to the club, Dylan Cease), they actually tend to be pretty good investments. Sometimes you get a paradigm-shifting superstar who elevates your franchise to the promised land (e.g. Shohei Ohtani, Corey Seager, Max Scherzer). Other times, you find a…
Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-Cast When Shohei Ohtani reached the 50-50 milestone last season in Miami, many thought it was one of the greatest individual performances in baseball history. What they didn’t know is that Ohtani would accomplish an even more impressive feat in a series-clinching game that sent his Los Angeles Dodgers back to the…
You might think this is hyperbolic, even after what we all just witnessed from Shohei Ohtani in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Game 4 victory to put them in a second straight World Series: just the best game ever played with Ohtani dominating on the mound and at the plate. But I don’t think this is…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It turns out the National League Championship Series was really a mismatch, just as Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy suggested. But not only in payroll and star power. Also on the baseball field. Where it really matters. Advertisement After compiling the majors’ best record during the regular season, the struggling Brewers…
We should never get used to Shohei Ohtani. Even as he is on the verge of a second World Series and a fourth MVP award, the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar found a way to do something again that seemed impossible before he came to the MLB. Like striking out three guys and then homering in…
Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a masterful complete-game victory and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers beat Milwaukee 5-1 on Tuesday to take command of their Major League Baseball playoff series. The 27-year-old Japanese right-hander, despite allowing a home run on his first pitch, posted the Dodgers’ first complete game in the playoffs since 2004, retiring the…
2025 season: 96-66, first in NL East, eliminated in NLDS With the Phillies eliminated by the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLDS, let’s take a look at the season spent in Philadelphia, the questions the team must address this winter, and early outlooks for next year. Advertisement Read more: 2025 MLB offseason previews: What’s…
