2025 MLB strikeout leader odds: Paul Skenes favored
The big arms are nearly ready to take the mound.
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MLB Stock Watch: Win projections, 2025 expectations - ESPN
Baseball is back. Or, to put it another way, the players are back on the fields grouped by their respective teams, frolicking on green grass in temperate climates — all the earmarks of the annual spring training rite. But in a sense, baseball never left.
MLB's Manfred: Blame system, not Dodgers for payroll disparity - ESPN
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday called payroll disparity a principal concern throughout the industry but would not necessarily commit to a salary cap as a central point of negotiations leading up to the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement.
MLB's 5 best under-the-radar pickups from the 2025 offseason
This offseason will be remembered as the winter of Juan Soto, when the Mets emerged victorious over the Yankees for the most expensive player in the sport's history on one side of the country while the Dodgers (supposedly) broke the game with their spending on the other. Top free-agent pitchers Blake Snell, Corbin Burnes and Max Fried all found new teams, the Astros traded away Kyle Tucker and another pitching sensation out of Japan landed in Los Angeles.
Dodgers 'hungrier than ever,' view 2025 as 'unique challenge' - ESPN
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Five years ago, Mookie Betts stood in the middle of a clubhouse here and introduced himself to new Los Angeles Dodgers teammates by basically telling them they needed to master the details in February if they wanted to hoist the trophy in October.
Yankees' Hal Steinbrenner - Spending like Dodgers 'difficult for most' owners - ESPN
New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner weighed in on the Los Angeles Dodgers' offseason spending spree, saying it will be even more «difficult» to keep up with the reigning World Series champions.
Sources - Dodgers agree to $13M deal with reliever Kirby Yates - ESPN
Right-handed reliever Kirby Yates and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a one-year, $13 million contract, sources told ESPN, continuing the Dodgers' construction of a superteam that will enter the 2025 season as heavy World Series favorites.
No, A Salary Cap Would Not Fix Major League Baseball
The response from fans of Major League Baseball to this year's offseason has been absurd, to say the least.