Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Let’s go Mets! Good morning, baseball fans! The 2024 playoffs move on to the next round today as the National League Championship Series begins. The visiting New York Mets will be taking the Los Angeles Dodgers. So you know what that means, we’re all now the biggest Mets fans in the world. (What could possibly go wrong with trusting the Mets?) Today’s game takes place at Dodger Stadium, with first pitch scheduled for 5:15 p.m. PT. The game will be broadcast on Fox. Taking the mound for the Mets will be right-hander Kodai Senga, who only pitched five innings in t ..read more

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images A scientist couldn’t figure it out, but maybe we internet posters can? These are trying times for a baseball blogger. We live in a suppositional interspace now that the San Francisco Giants have installed a new dude at the top of their Baseball Operations. Sure, that dude is literally Buster Posey, but that doesn’t make it any easier to imagine how the team will go about improving the roster heading into 2025. It’s not that Farhan Zaidi was easy to predict but you could filter out certain players pretty easily just given some basic markers like strike ..read more

Photo by Harry How/Getty Images BEAT LA. Good morning, baseball fans! Tonight, we all become the world’s biggest San Diego Padres fans as they take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the final game of the National League Division Series. The winner of tonight’s game will go on to face the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series on Sunday. As of the time this is being written on Thursday, the Dodgers had not announced a starting pitcher. Whoever it ends up being will be facing off against Padres right-hander Yu Darvish, who ended the 2024 regular season with a 3.31 ERA, 4.09 FIP, wi ..read more

Photo by New York Yankees/Getty Images Here’s everything you need to know for today’s American League Division Series action. Good morning, baseball fans! First and foremost, for any members of our community who are dealing with the effects of the recent hurricanes, please let us know in the comments how we can help. We’ve got you all in our hearts. Yesterday, the New York Mets became the first team to make it to their league’s Championship Series. As the best friend of a Mets fan, I cannot overstate how bad that is for the health of Mets fans everywhere. But congrats nonetheless. Today, the A ..read more

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images Pete Alonso just helped the Mets get to the National League Championship Series... Could his bat help power the Giants in 2025 and beyond? As Pete Alonso stepped into the batter’s box in the 9th inning of the decisive game three of the Wild Card series against the Brewers, my brother-in-law commented that if Alonso didn’t do anything in this at-bat he would go down as “the most hated Met of all time.” An extreme statement, but that’s where New York sports fans reside—the extremes. It was October after all. Every trip to the plate prior, Alonso ..read more

Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images We’ve got four games on deck for today’s playoff action. Here’s everything you need to know to follow along. Good morning, baseball fans! We’ve got a jam-packed day of playoff baseball on deck for today. For the first time since Saturday, all four division series will have games, so we’re looking at baseball from noon until bed time. First up, we have the visiting Cleveland Guardians taking on the Detroit Tigers in game three of their series, which is currently tied at one game each. Old friend and Guardians right-ha ..read more

Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images Here’s everything you need to know for today’s NLDS games. Good morning, baseball fans! The American League gets the day off again today, meaning the National League Division Series will be continuing on to their third games. Both series are tied at one game each. First up today will be the visiting Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Mets. The game will start at 2:08 p.m. PT and will be broadcast on FS1. Taking the mound for the Phillies will be right-hander Aaron Nola, facing off against old friend and Mets ..read more

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images 2024 was a career year for the veteran San Diego outfielder, and he continues to make headlines in the postseason. Should San Francisco try to get in on the fun and sign Profar when he becomes a free agent in the off-season'? Three weeks into February, Jurickson Profar didn’t have a Major League contract. Not a particularly unique predicament given the off-season’s market, but Profar’s situation was fundamentally different from the marquee free agents like Matt Chapman or Blake Snell. There were no multi-year deals, player friendly clauses, or crooked number figu ..read more

Photo by Andy Kuno/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images More questions, and maybe even more answers. On Saturday, I fielded a whole bunch of mailbag questions about the San Francisco Giants. There was an overflow, so here we are with some more. Thanks for the questions, everyone. According to recent MLB farm system rankings, the San Francisco Giants farm system is considered one of the worst in baseball. Is that true? If so, what will it take to make it great again? — Bill Scheinman (@BillScheinman) October 4, 2024 Well, at the risk of hedging right out of the gates, I’d say that it’s neither ..read more

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images The American League Division Series continue today. Here’s what you need to know to catch the action. Good morning, baseball fans! We’ve seen the first two games of the National League Division Series, with both series tied at one game a piece. Now we move on to the American League Division Series games two. First up will be the visiting Detroit Tigers against the Cleveland Guardians, who have a one-game lead in the series thus far. Today’s game will start at 1:08 p.m. PT and will be broadcast on TBS. Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal will get the start against ..read more