Plus: Arbitration deadline passes
With the decline of Black baseball players at the amateur level in recent years, the number of starting pitchers has decreased along with it. But the DREAM Series is looking to remedy that. Hosted in Tempe, Ariz., during Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend, the event provides an avenue specifically geared to diversify the talent pool of pitchers and catchers -- two positions that lack Black representation at the Major League level. | |
| The party started late on New Year's Eve for Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom and Rafael Devers' agent, Nelson Montes de Oca. | | |
| Mike Petriello examines how Jeff McNeil has been so successful at beating the shift and how he could respond to this year's positioning rule changes. | | |
| MLB Pipeline highlights the best prospects in this year's DREAM Series, including three members of the Draft Top 100 list. | | |
| Sunday marks the opening of this year's international signing period, which will bring a new group of phenoms into the ranks. So let's look back at how last year's signees fared in their first seasons. | | |
| Andrew McCutchen could reach 2,000 hits, 300 home runs, 400 doubles and 1,000 walks this season. Who are the two active players who have already passed those thresholds? | |
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