Ranking Pitching Rotations for MLB’s 14 Postseason Contenders Yes, the Dodgers are No. 1. But the gap between them and the rest of the contenders isn’t as large as you might think. Sports Illustrated · Sep 25
SI:AM | Guardians Seize First Place Thanks to Petey Halpin’s Unlikely Heroics The Cleveland center fielder isn’t known for his bat, but he hit the biggest homer of his team’s season. Sports Illustrated · Sep 17
The Shoulders on Which Titles Are Built: Tarik Skubal Is Calibrated for October With Skubal in the mix, the Dodgers’ embarrassment-of-riches rotation is ready to recall the pitching giants of postseasons past. Sports Illustrated · Sep 17
Dodgers Made a Small Change to Tarik Skubal’s Strategy On the Mound Since Los Angeles acquired the ace before the trade deadline, his pitch selection has slightly changed. Sports Illustrated · Sep 16
2026 MLB Trade Deadline Superlatives, Five Weeks Later Who’s the best hitter, pitcher, prospect and under-the-radar pickup acquired during this year’s trade season? Sports Illustrated · Sep 11
Mets Rising in Tarik Skubal Next Team Market on Kalshi Kalshi's Tarik Skubal next team market has the Mets as a contender to sign him this offseason. Sports Illustrated · Sep 10
MLB Staff Roundtable: Predictions for September and Beyond There are only 30 days left in the regular season. How do we see it playing out? Sports Illustrated · Aug 28
Ranking MLB’s Five Best Potential Postseason Pitching Rotations The ability to pitch deep into games is often a difference maker in October. Sports Illustrated · Aug 28
Everything You Need to Know About World Series Kalshi Market in Final Week of August Kalshi's World Series market is telling in the final week of August in who its contenders are. Sports Illustrated · Aug 24
Ranking MLB’s 10 Best Starting Pitchers The Dodgers and Phillies roster half of the league’s 10 best starters, by our estimation. Sports Illustrated · Aug 24
Slumping Dodgers Hit Season Low in Kalshi World Series Prediction Market The Los Angeles Dodgers World Series price on Kalshi dropped with their recent struggles. Sports Illustrated · Aug 18
The Dodgers’ Fatal Flaws Are Finally Catching Up With Them The defending champions’ weaknesses were on full display in a sloppy, mistake-ridden series loss to the Brewers, raising serious questions about their bid for a three-peat. Sports Illustrated · Aug 17
SI:AM | The Weirdest Baseball Play You’ll See All Season The umps in the Red Sox-Blue Jays game had to apply the rarely used “fourth out” rule after a confusing sequence in the seventh inning. Sports Illustrated · Aug 11
The Concerning Numbers Behind the Dodgers' Midseason Malaise Los Angeles has lost eight of nine games for the first time since 2017 and wouldn’t receive a first-round bye if the playoffs started today. Sports Illustrated · Aug 10
Sports Illustrated · Aug 7 MLB Power Rankings: Grading Each Team’s Trade Deadline Four A’s, two F’s and a whole lot somewhere in between.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 Meet Jefry Yan, the Mets’ Rookie Pitcher Whose Strikeout Celebrations Are Already the Talk of MLB The 29-year-old right-hander made his MLB debut on Wednesday night, and immediately went viral.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 Why Cal Raleigh Can’t Catch Up to Fastballs This Season This article was originally published as part of Verducci’s View, a weekly baseball newsletter from Sports Illustrated senior writer Tom Verducci. Every Monday,
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 How the Brewers Could've Prevented the Dodgers From Acquiring Tarik Skubal Milwaukee had the pieces to outbid Los Angeles for the two-time Cy Young winner.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 5 SI:AM | How Tarik Skubal and George Lombard Jr. Fared in Their Debuts Skubal took the mound in a Dodgers uniform for the first time, while the Yankees called up the prospect they hope will be their shortstop of the future.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 5 MLB Trade Deadline: Six Farm Systems That Leveled Up the Most These six farm systems received the biggest influx of prospect talent at the MLB trade deadline.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 5 The Four Biggest Missed Opportunities of the MLB Trade Deadline Sometimes, it’s the moves a team doesn’t make that prove to be the most impactful.
Reason · Aug 4 Don't Hate the Dodgers for Dominating So Much, Hate the Bankruptcy Court That Helped Them Do It Plus: FIFA’s president doesn’t understand his own organization's politics; a solid new pickleball movie
Sports Illustrated · Aug 4 Tom Verducci’s 12 Most Interesting Takeaways From the MLB Trade Deadline A lesson in Dodger-nomics, multiple admissions of past mistakes and much more.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 4 These Players Must Adjust to New Roles After the MLB Trade Deadline We’re going to look at a handful of players, or position groups, that saw their roles suddenly change with new teammates coming aboard.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 4 Five Winners and Five Losers From the 2026 MLB Trade Deadline Baseball’s trade action picked up in a big way ahead of Monday’s deadline. Here’s how the dust settled.