As team-building tactics go, having the two best players in a particular sport on the same roster would seem to be a pretty good one. Surely you’d expect that lucky team to, at the very least, have some winning seasons under its belt — or perhaps even win a championship or two. But such a […]
UPDATE (Dec. 21, 2022, 9:16 a.m.): As it turned out, the Mets were even bigger winners than we thought. In addition to all of the moves detailed below, it was reported early Wednesday morning that Carlos Correa would not be heading to the San Francisco Giants after all, instead signing with the New York Mets […]
In the NBA, any talk of building a superteam usually centers around the notion of a Big Three: a trio of stars so daunting that it can carry just about any roster to a championship. In the past 15 years, we’ve seen that model work for the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat and Golden State Warriors. […]
Back in May, it seemed like the Los Angeles Angels were headed for big things. But life, somehow, is never that simple for this team. Just as the Halos were looking like they’d finally deliver on their long-promised potential, the team promptly lost 14 straight games. Then-manager Joe Maddon, who expressed little concern for what […]
As of this week, there are now two instances in MLB history of a player making the All-Star Game as both a pitcher and a batter — and both belong to Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels. Ohtani became the first-ever double-duty All-Star last season, during a year that was unlike anything we had […]