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Baseball is the best. At times, baseball is also kooky. The 14 newcomers on the 2025 Hall of Fame ballot can testify to that. In celebration of these Cooperstown candidates, let’s look back at one fun moment from each player’s career.

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Next season will bring about a first for the Rays: Regular-season home games in the Tampa Bay area … outdoors. Forced out of their home ballpark at Tropicana Field due to the damage caused by Hurricane Milton, the Rays will host games in 2025 at George M.

Part of what makes baseball the best are the feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. We chronicle them throughout the year, but there’s no better time than before the calendar flips to take a look back. It’s hard to pick just one per team after

How do you make a big home run even more memorable? With an epic bat flip. As part of its year-end countdown highlighting the top moments of 2024, MLB Network took a look at the best bat flips we saw this past season. There were plenty to choose from as

At the end of the day, a home run's distance has no impact on its usefulness. From the shortest (which, in 2024, traveled 318 feet) to the longest (480 feet), it's still just a run on the board, give or take a few baserunners. But let's be real -- moonshots

Kristian Campbell entered 2024 as a supplemental fourth-round pick the previous July who had fashioned a nice pro debut. He ended it as the No. 10 prospect on MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list, not to mention its Hitting Prospect of the Year and the MiLB Breakout Player of the

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There is no singular established path to farm system improvement. The best organizations do it internally. They take the players already in the pipeline and help them get the most out of their tools or, in a best-case scenario, improve the tools already in their profiles. That takes a good

From stunning comebacks to thrilling walk-offs to dominant pitching performances, every team had its share of memorable triumphs in 2024. But what was each club’s signature win of the season?

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Looking to bounce back after a tough season at the plate, designated hitter Eloy Jiménez has agreed to a Minor League deal with the Rays, multiple sources told MLB.com on Monday. The club has not announced the deal, which was first reported by ESPN, and terms of

There was no shortage of storylines in the 2024 season, which featured some of the best individual seasons and performances that baseball has ever seen -- we're looking at you Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge. Which single-game performances were the best? We asked each of our 30 beat writers which

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We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

The Tampa Bay Rays have announced the following promotions and title changes impacting multiple departments within Baseball Operations. Additional promotions and changes will be announced later this offseason: BASEBALL OPERATIONS Name Updated Title (Previous Title) Hamilton Marx Vice President, Baseball Process & Strategy (Director, Baseball Operations) Simon Rosenbaum Director, Baseball

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TAMPA, Fla. -- With starting pitching to spare, the Rays swung a trade Saturday that brought their rotation into clearer focus and further fortified their highly regarded Minor League system. The Rays dealt starter Jeffrey Springs and left-hander Jacob Lopez to the Athletics for high-ceiling/MLB-ready starter Joe Boyle, first base

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Without mentioning Danny Jansen by name at the Winter Meetings in Dallas, president of baseball operations Erik Neander described the veteran backstop as the Rays’ “perfect catcher” for next season. Jansen sees it as an ideal pairing for both sides. “I definitely just felt like it was

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Pinellas County Commission voted Tuesday to approve bonds that will finance its share of a new Rays ballpark in St. Petersburg, but the club said the county’s previous delays would force them to push back the planned opening of the ballpark by a year and makes

DALLAS -- It was a busy week for the American League East. Over three days at the Winter Meetings, the Yankees lost Juan Soto but added Max Fried. The Blue Jays swung a deal for Andrés Giménez. The Orioles officially signed slugging outfielder Tyler O’Neill and catcher Gary Sánchez. And

DALLAS -- The way manager Kevin Cash sees it, the Rays’ rotation is “probably the most exciting part” of their team heading into next year. They’re set to bring back steady veteran Zack Littell and the young trio of Ryan Pepiot, Shane Baz and Taj Bradley. Jeffrey Springs returned from

DALLAS – In the 2009 and ‘10 MLB Drafts, the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 pick and turned those selections into a pair of franchise-changing players, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper. At Tuesday’s Draft Lottery during the 2024 Winter Meetings, Washington earned another shot at the very top of