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The Athletics finished the 2025 season with a hard-to-swallow number: a team ERA of 4.71, ranking 27th in MLB. This offseason, their efforts to rectify that problem have been rather modest. Sean Newcomb—who contributed 1.75 ERA to the Athletics—left the free agency. His replacement is Mark Leiter Jr., with an ERA of 4.84 last season (although a FIP of 3.55 suggests better performance than the surface). In short: the ... Read more

The Athletics finished the 2025 season with a hard-to-swallow number: a team ERA of 4.71, ranking 27th in MLB. This offseason, their efforts to rectify that problem have been rather modest. Sean Newcomb—who contributed 1.75 ERA to the Athletics—left the free agency. His replacement is Mark Leiter Jr., with an ERA of 4.84 last season (although a FIP of 3.55 suggests better performance than the surface). In short: the ... Read more

Sam Darnold didn’t celebrate wildly when the Seahawks punched their ticket to the Super Bowl. He hugged teammates. He took a breath. He shared a quiet kiss with his fiancée on the field at Lumen Field as confetti fell around them. For a quarterback whose career once felt defined by doubt, the calm almost felt deliberate. The emotion came later — and it didn’t come from him. Shortly after Seattle’s 31–27 NFC ... Read more

Sam Darnold didn’t scream.He didn’t spike the ball.He didn’t soak in the moment the way cameras usually expect. Instead, after leading the Seattle Seahawks to a 31–27 NFC Championship win and a Super Bowl LX berth, Darnold looked almost… grounded. The emotion showed up somewhere else. It showed up on Instagram. Moments after the Seahawks eliminated the Los Angeles Chargers at Lumen Field, Darnold’s fiancée, Katie ... Read more

Kazuma Okamoto hasn’t played a single regular-season game for the Toronto Blue Jays yet. And already, the weight on his shoulders has quietly doubled. According to reports out of the World Baseball Classic circle, Okamoto is officially confirmed to suit up for Team Japan when the tournament begins in early March. The news itself isn’t shocking — Okamoto represented Japan in 2023, and few doubted his ... Read more