MLB futures betting 2025: Odds, expert picks, predictions including Aaron Judge AL home run leader  —  After dropping a handful of best bets for the futures market ahead of Opening Day, here is another player prop in the futures market worth adding to your bet slip.

Red Sox' surprise deal has different ‘risk;’ ‘Best days are ahead of him’  —  BALTIMORE — The Red Sox gave Garrett Crochet a six-year, $170 million extension despite him logging only 151 innings total as a major league starting pitcher to date.  —  Most contracts this lucrative are given based on past production.

Yankees bring back reliever Adam Ottavino on one-year deal  —  NEW YORK — Right-handed reliever Adam Ottavino agreed to a one-year contract with the New York Yankees on Tuesday.  —  Ottavino, who pitched for the Yankees in 2019 and 2020, gets $1 million while in the major leagues and $150,000 while in the minors.

Jokes abound as Dodgers' Freddie Freeman misses 2nd game while recovering from shower slip and fall  —  LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman is hearing it after he slipped and fell in the shower, injuring his surgically repaired right ankle and missing his second straight game for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

MLB Uses Tech to Shorten Food Lines While Game Time Shrinks  —  Major League Baseball updated its rulebook in 2023 to increase the pace of action on the field.  But the changes put concessionaires on the clock, too.  —  Rishav Dash, senior director of analytics for Delaware North's sports business …

Mets pitcher Sean Manaea shut down from throwing after setback in recovery from oblique injury  —  MIAMI — New York Mets left-hander Sean Manaea had a setback in his recovery from a right oblique strain and won't throw for two weeks.  —  “He experienced some discomfort a couple of days ago …

Lance Lynn, World Series champion and 2-time All-Star pitcher, says he's retiring  —  World Series champion and two-time All-Star pitcher Lance Lynn is retiring from Major League Baseball.  —  Lynn announced his decision on the “Dymin in the Rough” podcast.  —  He was 7-4 with a 3.84 ERA in 23 starts last season with St. Louis.

What is a torpedo bat?  Inside MLB's next big thing  —  EARLY IN THE 2023 season, Aaron Leanhardt started asking New York Yankees hitters what they needed to perform better.  He was a minor league hitting coordinator for the team, and with league-wide batting average the previous year …