Hanshin Tigers shut out Cubs, Dodgers for back-to-back wins - ESPN
TOKYO — For two days in Japan, it's the Hanshin Tigers who have looked like the class of the National League.
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Final 2025 offseason grades for all 30 MLB teams - ESPN
Spring training is here. Games have started. The offseason is mostly over, although a few significant free agents remain unsigned and we might yet see a couple of final big preseason trades — maybe Nolan Arenado or Dylan Cease.
Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki are just the start: All of Dodgers' 2025 starting rotation options
"There are rich teams, and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap, and then there's us."
2025 MLB strikeout leader odds: Paul Skenes favored
The big arms are nearly ready to take the mound.
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.