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Randy Arozarena has been one of the best players in baseball, but it's not particularly easy to tell what he's doing differently this year.

A look at Jack Leiter’s splits this year reveals something quite unusual

share-square-762459 The Baseball Writers Association of America elected no new Hall of Famers for 2021. It seems pretty likely the same might happen in 2022, too. Maybe that says a lot about the flawed process, or the flaws of the men at the top of the ballot. Its probably both. But what that doesnt mean is that there arent Hall of Fame-level players on the field right now. There are dozens of them. But how many? Who are they, and where should you look in 2021 if you want to see a living legen...

share-square-687088 With George Springer off to Toronto for the next six years, the best free-agent center fielder is off the market. Actually, his move to Canada cuts the starting-caliber free-agent market for that position in half, because there were only ever two: Springer and Jackie Bradley Jr., who was probably waiting for exactly this moment. There are at least a half-dozen teams who could use a high-quality glove in center. Theres only one Bradley. After a cold winter, its finally his t...

share-square-575339 Prior to the 2014 season, the Tigers offered Max Scherzer, then 29 years old and fresh off an American League Cy Young win in 13, a six-year extension worth $144 million. Scherzer declined it, feeling he could do better, and after another good season in 2014 (this time finishing fifth in the Cy Young balloting), he did just that, signing a seven-year deal with the Nationals worth $210 million, though taking into account how much of it was deferred, the dollar value at the ti...

share-square-367485 Theres a handful of numbers throughout baseball history that are so important, so revered, so iconic that they require no additional explanation. 714 and .406 or 42 is part of that club too. You immediately know what all of those mean. For nearly 50 years, 660 has been one of those numbers, too. Willie Mays hit the 660th and final regular-season home run of his career on Aug. 17, 1973, at Shea Stadium as a member of the Mets off Cincinnatis Don Gullett. Sure, he hit one ...

share-square-805801 The Mets finally have a new general manager (Jared Porter), and wed like to say, "Its time to get started," except theyve So while this isnt exactly going to be a Porter solo show, hes clearly joining a team thats looking to be aggressive in an attempt to get back into the National League East race theyve been largely absent from over the past four seasons. What are they going to do? What should they do? (Aside from "invest in player development and analytics," which, whil...