Our best (and worst) predictions of 2024

Plus: The Curse of the Bambino explained

Thursday, December 26 View In Browser  TOP NEWS Revisiting our best and worst 2024 predictions   Shohei Ohtani as MVP? Check. Aaron Judge as home run champ? Check. Before the season, a group of MLB.com writers, editors, researchers and analysts made 2024 predictions. Some, such as Ohtani and Judge, were on the easy side. Others were harder and more impressive. But we also are sharing some of our clunkers.    Each team's prospect whose stock improved most in '24 Judging 2025 HOF candidates by their peak years Twins add to depth with deal for versatile Gasper MORE TOP NEWS MLB MORNING LINEUP PODCAST PLAY A SPORCLE BASEBALL QUIZ! MORE FREE GAMES AT MLB PLAY STAFF PICKS The time Ted Williams almost became Yankees 'designated hitter' The Yankees' 1961 season already has a controversial asterisk attached to it. Imagine if Ted Williams were on that team? Mike Petriello does a deep dive back to '61, when the Yankees tried to lure their former Red Sox rival out of retirement to be a designated hitter of sorts long before the DH officially existed.   The Curse of the Bambino is now 105 years old On Dec. 26, 1919, the Red Sox made the fateful decision to trade the great Babe Ruth to, of all teams, the Yankees. It led to immediate greatness in New York and almost a century of despair in Boston. Here's what happened.  Every Hall of Fame class, ranked In less than a month, Cooperstown's Class of '25 will be announced. Where will it stand all-time? We ranked every Hall of Fame class by WAR, all 81 of them.  Ken Burns' 'Baseball': Jackie Robinson Take a look back at the life of Jackie Robinson, who crossed baseball's color line and became one of the most beloved and influential figures in American history, with Part 1 at 7 p.m. ET and Part 2 at 9:30 on MLB Network.  MORE STORIES © 2024 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. MLB trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball. Visit MLB.com. Any other marks used herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Please review our Privacy Policy. You (gahleexholly.hdhask@blogger.com) received this message because you registered to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com. Please add info@marketing.mlbemail.com to your address book to ensure our messages reach your inbox. If you no longer wish to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com, please unsubscribe  or log in and manage your email subscriptions. Postal Address: MLB.com, c/o MLB Advanced Media, L.P., 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.