Dodgers recall Zach McKinstry and Ryan Meisinger as roster expands

Former Dodgers catcher Russell Martin is joining Team Canada’s coaching staff for this year’s World Baseball Classic (WBC), according to Mike Wilner at the Toronto Star. “It’s like I’m throwing myself into being a rookie again,” Martin said. “I’ll be doing something that I’ve never really done, but I get to share a little bit of the knowledge I’ve acquired and help out the future.”

Patrick Dubuque at Baseball Prospectus analyzed how we judge starting pitchers has shifted over time, and how that affects the Hall of Fame, using former Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton as an inflection point in the perception. Since Sutton’s election to Cooperstown in 1998, only nine starting pitchers have been voted into the Hall by the BBWAA in 25 years.

Two future all-time greats went at it in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday night. Patrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs to a 23-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday night, taking down Joe Burrow and Co.  Following the game, Mahomes and Burrow had a ...

Two words are trending late in the fourth quarter of the AFC Championship Game on Sunday night. NFL rigged. That's certainly not going to go over very well at the NFL offices in New York. Cincinnati and Kansas City are tied, 20-20, late in the fourth quarter. The Chiefs' most-recent drive had the ...