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For more than a decade, Jose Altuve didn’t just occupy second base. Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve (27) hits an RBI single | Brad Penner-Imagn Images He owned it. At 5-foot-6, Altuve built one of the most improbable superstar careers in modern baseball, stacking MVP awards, batting titles, postseason moments, and championships while redefining what durability and consistency look like at his position. As ... Read more

The Blue Jays didn’t treat 2025 like a peak. Toronto Blue Jays Kazuma Okamoto poses for a photo with general manager Ross Atkins and attorney Scott Boras. | Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images They treated it like a warning. Toronto came close to winning the World Series last season, close enough to taste it—but not close enough to forget what it felt like to fall short. And instead of doing what so many teams do after ... Read more

The Blue Jays didn’t treat 2025 like a peak. Toronto Blue Jays Kazuma Okamoto poses for a photo with general manager Ross Atkins and attorney Scott Boras. | Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images They treated it like a warning. Toronto came close to winning the World Series last season, close enough to taste it—but not close enough to forget what it felt like to fall short. And instead of doing what so many teams do after ... Read more

It’s late January. Ballparks are buried under snow. Opening Day still feels distant. And yet, one of the loudest battles in baseball isn’t happening on a field at all—it’s happening in a conference room, with two numbers that refuse to meet in the middle. Tarik Skubal, the Tigers’ ace and back-to-back AL Cy Young winner, is locked in an arbitration standoff that has quietly become bigger than Detroit. The gap is almost ... Read more

It’s late January. Ballparks are buried under snow. Opening Day still feels distant. And yet, one of the loudest battles in baseball isn’t happening on a field at all—it’s happening in a conference room, with two numbers that refuse to meet in the middle. Tarik Skubal, the Tigers’ ace and back-to-back AL Cy Young winner, is locked in an arbitration standoff that has quietly become bigger than Detroit. The gap is almost ... Read more