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Let’s poke around some of these minor league signings

Each and every season, teams need to sign players to minor league contracts for two reasons. First, they need to stock their upper minors with players that can fill in if the major league roster finds itself in a bind. Second, if that player is good enough during spring training, he can possibly fill a […]

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Bears Get New EDGE, Love To Kansas City, Giants Win Big

Let’s hit another 2026 NFL mock draft. As long as the Giants hold onto the top pick, I still think that someone will end up moving up for it, and they’d be wise to trade back a few spots. Plus, the Bears add a different EDGE, and the Chiefs pick up the most dangerous offensive player in the draft class . 2026 NFL Mock Draft 1. New York Jets (via NYG): QB Fernando Mendoza – Indiana If the Giants end up with the top pick, they will almost certainly deal it. I’m sure they’d ra...

2025 Season in Review: Dustin Harris

With the 2025 Texas Rangers season having come to an end, we shall be, over the course of the offseason, taking a look at every player who appeared in a major league game for the Texas Rangers in 2025. Today we are looking at outfielder Dustin Harris. Dustin Harris had a weirdly memorable time in the […]

Today In Jays History: Jays Trade For Varsho

It was three years ago today that the Jays traded Lourdes Gurriel and Gabriel Moreno to the Diamondbacks for Daulton Varsho. I think it is fair to say the trade wasn’t universally loved at the time. Moreno was one of our top prospects and wearer of the ‘Catcher of the Future’ medalion, which was passed […]

Pirates tied to Kazuma Okamoto in MLB Free Agency

The Pittsburgh Pirates are looking to continue to add quality hitters to their lineup this offseason and have been tied to yet another high profile free-agent. The organization has been tied to the signings of the top two Japanese free-agents this winter, in Munetaka Murakami and Kazuma Okamoto. The former just signed a very team […]

Trey Sweeney needs a big offseason

Heading toward the 2026 season, the shortstop position remains the biggest long-term question mark on the Tigers’ roster. Sure, they’ll have plenty of work to do in regards to the starting rotation once, and assuming, Tarik Skubal leaves in free agency. But the position group is fairly well set up for the future with the […]

Ten of the best Cubs photos of 2025

As we approach the end of 2025, it’s time to post various year-end reviews. So as has been my practice in previous years, I am today posting 10 of what I think are the best Cubs photos of the past season. The Cubs in Japan Here, the Cubs (first-base side) and Dodgers (third-base side) lineup […]

2025 Season in Review: Brent Rooker

Next up in our look back at the A’s players in 2025, we turn back to the position player side of things by remembering the season with Brent Rooker. How did the former All-Star and Silver Slugger fare in 2025? How was he acquired? Brent was drafted twice by the Minnesota Twins. He was originally […]

2025 Atlanta Braves Player Review: Matt Olson

Not a whole lot went right for the Atlanta Braves as a whole in 2025, as evidenced by the fact that they ended up missing the Postseason for the first time since 2017. However, despite all of the muck and mire that this team had to trudge through during the past season, one thing that […]

This Week in Happy Valley: Bowl Week

Alex Tatsch will not play in the Pinstripe Bowl due to injury. Penn State’s Pinstripe Bowl uniforms will feature the white collars on the jersey. Guy Gadowsky talked about bringing his club players up to D1 hockey when he came to Penn State. Former Penn State goaltender Arsenii Sergeev made 52 saves in his AHL […]

2025 Dodgers season review: Dalton Rushing

Dalton Rushing got his chance to earn some time in the big leagues in 2025, serving as the understudy to Will Smith after the Dodgers released Austin Barnes and platooning with Ben Rortvedt while Smith dealt with a hand injury. Rushing was ranked as the Dodgers’ no. 1 prospect entering the 2025 season, and it […]

2025 Player Review: Max Kepler

What started out as a highly confusing free agent signing by the Phillies turned into something resembling a disaster at the end of the season. No one really can pinpoint why the team targeted Max Kepler as a way to spend free agent dollars, but spend they did. It just didn’t work. 2025 stats: 474 […]

Trey McBride and Budda Baker elected to 2026 Pro Bowl

In what as been an incredibly disappointing season, the Arizona Cardinals still have two Pro Bowl players. Trey McBride and Budda Baker were both once again selected to represent the Arizona Cardinals in the Pro Bowl. From the team: S Budda Baker Baker was named to his eighth Pro Bowl and seventh consecutive selection at […]

Chicago Cubs Named Among Possible Kazuma Okamoto Destinations

Japanese slugging corner infielder Kazuma Okamoto is available to MLB teams until January 4, at which time his posting period ends. Either he’s signed a contract by then, or he hasn’t, and that’s now less than two weeks away. I’d say things have to start heating up soon, but then again, we didn’t really hear much of anything on Munetaka Murakami until a few days before his posting concluded, and he ultimately signed a two-year, $34 million deal with the White Sox this weekend. Jon Heyman ...

The Montgomery to Murakami Pipeline

Let’s take a moment and remember the Colson Montgomery of just nine months ago. His year started with a prospect report from FanGraphs in which the very first sentence was, “Montgomery is in a free fall.” It was more scathing than a Pitchfork review of Raffi’s “Bananaphone.” Things got worse when the season started.  Montgomery […]

J.J. McCarthy Injured Again: Durability Concerns Rise After Vikings’ Gritty Win

Is J.J. McCarthy’s season (and future) over after another injury? In this explosive Vikings vs Giants post-game analysis, Tyler Forness and Dave Stefano dive deep into McCarthy’s hand injury, the ongoing drop issues, Max Brosmer’s relief performance, and what it means for Minnesota’s final two games. The Real Forno Show delivers the ultimate Minnesota Vikings […]

Grading the Mets’ Luke Weaver signing

The Mets continued both their bullpen revamp and their seemingly endless conquest to steal good players from the Yankees, signing Luke Weaver to a two-year, $22M deal. Weaver, a 32-year-old right hander, has been a key member of the Yankees’ bullpen the past two seasons and actually took the closer’s job from Devin Williams at […]

2025 Mets Minor League In Memoriam: Infielders

In this four-part series, we look back on the minor leaguers that the Mets released or traded over 2025. Today, we focus on the infielders. 02/01/25: DSL Mets Orange released SS Starling Fernandez. 02/01/25: DSL Mets Orange released SS Leiner Ramirez. 02/04/25: DSL Mets Orange released C Yerlin Garcia. 06/16/25: Syracuse Mets released 1B Jon […]

Yankees Potential Free Agent Target: Tyler Mahle

Christmas is coming, and while the goose continues to get fat, the Yankees are submitting their final wishes. Among those wishes is likely for some security in the starting rotation to begin the 2026 season. As we’ve mentioned before, the Yankees could have a potentially great group of starters, but with Gerrit Cole and Carlos […]

Elephant Rumblings: McNeil Addition Solidifies Lineup

Happy Tuesday A’s fans! We have a new starting second baseman after yesterday’s trade for Jeff McNeil from the New York Mets. The acquisition of the longtime Met finally gives the A’s a quality contributor at the keystone, something the A’s have lacked for the past couple of seasons. After the weekend trade of Brandon […]