MLB 2025 season preview: Rankings, every team's playoff odds  —  Welcome to MLB Opening Week, baseball fans!  —  After a chaotic offseason, one thing is clear heading into the new season: Everyone else is chasing the reigning World Series champions at the top of our initial 2025 rankings.

Sources: Arizona Diamondbacks agree to deal with veteran lefty  —  The Diamondbacks and left-hander Jalen Beeks are in agreement on a major league deal, pending a physical, sources said, giving the club a veteran reliever to occupy a bullpen spot after the unit suffered a pair of late-spring injuries.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans  —  U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen.  I didn't think it could be real.  Then the bombs started falling.  —  The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern …

Brewers at Yankees Prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends and stats for March 27  —  The Milwaukee Brewers and the New York Yankees open the baseball season Thursday at Yankee Stadium.  —  Freddy Peralta is slated to take the mound for Milwaukee against Carlos Rodón for New York.

MLB Opening Day 2025 Betting: Picks, Trends, Best Bets, Predictions, Ohtani home run prop, Dodgers win total  —  The 2025 MLB season begins Thursday, March 27th and Vaughn Dalzell has got you covered with his favorite future props for MVP and CY Young, plus home run leader and a play on the Dodgers win total!

25 MLB predictions for 2025 season: Vlad Jr. extended?  Cease to O's?  Phillies sign Tucker?  —  The Dodgers and Cubs opened the MLB season last week in Japan, but with the rest of the league set to begin play on Thursday, it's time for me to again go on record with predictions for the 2025 season and subsequent offseason.

Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk finalizes $58 million contract for 2026-30  —  TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk has finalized a five-year, $58 million contract covering 2026-30.  —  Kirk agreed in January to a one-year, $4.6 million contract and would have been eligible …

There's no easy answers for slowing down rising level of pitching injuries at all levels of baseball  —  GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Figuring out a cause for the skyrocketing number of arm injuries among pitchers is easy.  —  Finding a solution could prove much more challenging.

Cal Raleigh reportedly signs six year, $105m contract extension with the Seattle Mariners  —  The Big Dumper has landed for the long haul.  —  The Big Dumper is locked in.  The Seattle Mariners and Cal Raleigh have agreed upon a six year, $105 million contract extension that buys out three years …

Nationals' DJ Herz goes on the injured list with a sprained ligament in his pitching elbow  —  WASHINGTON — Washington Nationals left-hander DJ Herz was placed on the 15-day major league injured list because of a sprained ligament in his pitching elbow.  —  Herz was optioned down to Triple …

Wells to hit leadoff for Yankees on opening day, a team first  —  The New York Yankees have never had a catcher hit leadoff in a regular-season game in their long history.  —  That is slated to change Thursday.  —  Austin Wells, the team's starting catcher, will lead off on Opening …