Baseball

11/29/2025 |  Four MLB free agents who could be Black Friday-level bargains, including hitter who had a brutal 2025 (CBS Sports) If there's one thing everyone loves, it's finding a bargain. It's true of you, it's true of me, it's true of front offices across MLB. So, on this blessed day when consumerism runs amok, I'm here to continue a longstanding tradition at CBS Sports by identifying four discounted MLB free agents who I believe could offer a lot more to teams next season than you'd expect.

11/29/2025 |  Why the Baseball Hall of Fame Might Welcome Zero Players This Year (DEADSPIN) What if they gave a Hall of Fame induction ceremony and nobody came?
It would be boring for us, bad for local business and abysmal for Major League Baseball, but it just might happen in Cooperstown, N.Y. in late July. Looking at both ballots, one in the hands of baseball writers, the other to be considered by a 16-person committee examining the "Contemporary Baseball Era," the Hall faces a nonzero chance that zero new players make it in. 

11/29/2025 |  Angels reportedly set to be rid of MLB's worst contract (Yardbarker) Third baseman Anthony Rendon has become a punchline to a joke the Los Angeles Angels are not laughing at. That joke may be over soon.
ESPN's Alden Gonzalez reported that the Angels are in talks to buy out the final year of Rendon's contract. The expectation is that Rendon would retire once a settlement is reached.

11/29/2025 |  Hal Steinbrenner’s comments on Yankees’ profits point to a larger issue (Yardbarker) Over Thanksgiving week, New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner provided fans with plenty of news to digest.
Among notable items that are circulating, four things stand out: his resolve to lower the payroll below $300 million, the insinuation that the Yankees are not a profitable ballclub, the assumption that the Los Angeles Dodgers’ astronomical payroll played no part in their dominance and his purported support for a salary cap. 

11/26/2025 |  Alex Rodriguez calls out 'hypocrisy' over Bud Selig's Hall of Fame induction -- and he's mostly right to do so (CBS Sports) Alex Rodriguez is on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot again this year. It's his fifth time on the ballot, and he has yet to get to 40% of the vote in his previous four tries. The threshold for induction is 75%, so it doesn't look like he'll make it. Like Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds before him, A-Rod is statistically one of the greatest players in MLB history. But his ties to PEDs are keeping him out of Cooperstown.