From stunning comebacks to thrilling walk-offs to dominant pitching performances, every team had its share of memorable triumphs in 2024. But what was each club’s signature win of the season?

2024 was a thrilling, downright giddy year of baseball, with historic individual seasons, riveting playoff chases, hair-raising postseason games and a World Series with the biggest stars in the sport. But to our eyes, there were 10 players who made their mark on the sport more than any other, 10

There was no shortage of storylines in the 2024 season, which featured some of the best individual seasons and performances that baseball has ever seen -- we're looking at you Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge. Which single-game performances were the best? We asked each of our 30 beat writers which

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We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

DALLAS -- Three days went by without the Royals making a move at the Winter Meetings this week, but that doesn’t mean talks weren’t happening behind the scenes about what comes next in their offseason agenda. In reality, the Royals had already made a big chunk of their moves entering

DALLAS – Arms were on the menu during Wednesday afternoon’s Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings. A total of 15 players were taken in the Major League phase of this year’s Rule 5 and 11 of them were pitchers. It started when the White Sox took right-hander Shane Smith

DALLAS -- General manager J.J. Picollo categorized the Royals’ day at the Winter Meetings on Tuesday as quiet and slow. But seeing the free-agent market heat up after Juan Soto became a Met is a good thing for the Royals – because it could trigger a move for them with

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The 2025 Draft may still be seven months away but it's also in the news. MLB Pipeline released its initial Draft Top 100 late last week and MLB staged the Draft Lottery on Tuesday evening at the Winter Meetings.

DALLAS -- A year ago at the Winter Meetings, the Royals were aggressively pursuing their free-agent targets, and although it was a quiet few days in Nashville, their flurry of activity came quickly after as they rebuilt and revamped their roster. This year at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, the

Major League Baseball’s Draft Lottery will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ET. It’s time to get to know who the 16 teams eligible for the lottery are hoping to get a chance to select. MLB Pipeline’s new 2025 Top 100 Draft Prospects

DALLAS -- Willie Mays’ legacy was celebrated heavily in 2024, and in 2025, Major League Baseball will continue to honor his life by focusing on the very field where he started his baseball journey. Since 2012, MLB has held a charity auction at the Winter Meetings that raises funds for

Al Fitzmorris, an original Royal who compiled one of the best winning percentages in club history and also owns a franchise hitting first, died Wednesday evening after a months-long battle with cancer, his family announced. He was 78. “It’s by the grace of God my Pops went peacefully to heaven

KANSAS CITY – While the Royals’ front office has been busy in the first part of the offseason finding ways to upgrade the team on the field for 2025, the business operations group has been busy finding a way to help as many fans as possible watch that team. The

DALLAS -- The Rule 5 Draft has been the unofficial final act of the annual Winter Meetings. This year’s edition will take place on Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET to close things out, and as always, there will be players who will get the chance to make Opening Day rosters

While a solid percentage of picks in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft get at least some big league time the season following their selection, it’s not so easy to stick around for an entire year.

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KANSAS CITY -- The Royals announced their team awards for 2024 on Monday, with shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and pitchers Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans taking home honors. Witt is the unanimous Les Milgram Player of the Year, an award named in honor of the late Kansas City businessman, community

A year ago, we provided one Rookie of the Year candidate for every team. How’d we do? We nailed the NL top rookie (Paul Skenes) and also picked out two others who received votes (Jackson Chourio and Mason Miller). That’s a good enough success rate to try the whole exercise

Teams protected 59 prospects on 40-man rosters two weeks ago but left several others up for grabs in the annual Rule 5 Draft. That draft will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. ET at the Winter Meetings in Dallas. Any player who turned pro at age 18