Baseball

6/29/2026 |  Philadelphia Phillies Must Go All-In Before Their Championship Window Closes (DEADSPIN) Championship windows don't close all at once. They start to crack. They splinter. And one day you realize they're gone. For the Philadelphia Phillies, their window isn’t closing one day.
It’s closing now.
Looking into the past, the team has made the playoffs in each of the last four years – but the postseason results continue to trend in the wrong direction.

6/26/2026 |  MLBPA: Owners’ Aggressive Labor Proposals Unite Players (Front Office Sports) The initial trio of labor proposals from MLB team owners has been so extreme in the intended impact that it’s had a unifying effect on players, the MLB Players Association said. 
Management’s latest offer, which would radically redefine the sport’s reserve system and limit free-agent contracts, completes an overarching set of starting bids from its side of the bargaining table.

6/26/2026 |  MCWS among most-watched on record despite low for OU-UNC Final (Sports Media Watch) The Men’s College World Series finished among the most-watched on record, but that did not extend to the Final.
The complete NCAA Men’s College World Series averaged 1.5 million viewers across the ESPN family of networks, up 24% from last year and the third-highest average on record behind 2023 and 2024, but the three-game Oklahoma-North Carolina MCWS Final was the least-watched in four years with an average of 2.0 million — down 21% from last year’s two-game Final between LSU and Coastal Carolina.

6/26/2026 |  In an Era of $1,000 Tickets, $10 Watch Parties Bring Die-Hard Fans Together (Front Office Sports) Last October, several hours before Game 7 of the ALCS between the Mariners and the Blue Jays, Abraham McCormick piled his wife and three kids into their RV and made the drive from Whatcom County, Washington, to T-Mobile Park buzzing with anticipation.

6/25/2026 |  2026 MLB All-Star Team Picks: Full 32-Player Rosters For American & National Leagues (Fox Sports) Obviously, every MLB All-Star Game is filled with star players. However, the 2026 MLB All-Star Game might feature the greatest collection of pitchers that a league has ever assembled.
Nine starting pitchers in the National League have a sub-3.00 ERA entering Tuesday's slate (among pitchers with enough innings to qualify), and that doesn't include the likes of Shohei Ohtani (1.47 ERA), Kyle Harrison (2.50 ERA) and Zack Wheeler (2.11 ERA). Which begs the question: Who will be the 12 pitchers selected in the National League?