Archives for December 2025

Goodbye to a Threat: Why Devin Williams Leaving the Bronx Feels Like Relief in Pinstripes Every city has a noise it fears. In the Bronx, it is the quiet. That hush that falls when a closer walks in and the game begins to shrink. For years, Devin Williams represented that silence to every lineup he […]

Power Shift in the National League: How Pete Alonso Changes Everything in Atlanta The moment the news surfaced, Atlanta felt heavier. Not in weight. In expectation. The Atlanta Braves had landed one of baseball’s most intimidating bats in Pete Alonso, and the reaction across the National League was immediate. This was not a tweak. This […]

Why Ron Washington Feels Like a Culture Shift, Not Just Another Coaching Hire in San Francisco When the San Francisco Giants add a coach, they usually add experience. This time, they added expectation. The arrival of Ron Washington is being felt less as a transaction and more as a temperature change inside the San Francisco […]

Guardians Could Tap Non-Tender Market to Bolster Weak Offense CLEVELAND — As the 2025 non-tender deadline passed, dozens of formerly controlled players ballooned the free-agent market — and the Guardians may have a real opportunity to use it. With the club’s offense sputtering in recent years and payroll flexibility constrained, non-tendered players offer a potentially […]

CLEVELAND — Major League Baseball is set to debut the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in 2026, shaking up how balls and strikes are determined by placing final judgement in the hands of camera technology rather than human umpires. With the upcoming shift casting uncertainty over traditional pitcher techniques like pitch-framing, one prospect in the Cleveland […]