Russell Dorsey

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Russell Dorsey

If you can’t stand the sight of bad baseball, shield your eyes from the 2025 Colorado Rockies. Just one season after the Chicago White Sox set the modern MLB record for worst season in MLB history, a new contender for the infamous claim to baseball infamy has risen. The Rockies are swiftly heading down a tumultuous path to top what the White Sox did and they’re on pace to obliterate the not even year-old record. AdvertisementColorado’s 9-46 record entering Wednesday is the worst in baseball.

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Russell Dorsey

Generational players tend to make the spectacular look mundane. And whether it’s Aaron Judge hitting over .400 as we approach June or Shohei Ohtani being second in MLB in OPS after a quiet start to the year, the two best players in the world again look like they’re destined to finish as the AL and NL MVP Award winners, respectively. Judge and Ohtani are the easy frontrunners for MVP and in a year when they’re healthy, that will likely always be the case.

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Russell Dorsey

It’s never a surprise when Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are having great seasons and sitting atop the leaderboards in their respective leagues. That’s something we’ve come to expect from the two best baseball players in the world. But so far in 2025, there are some players doing special things that have been flying under the radar. Here are five underrated players off to hot starts this MLB season. Underrated stat: .983 OPS, sixth in MLB (min.

2 weeks ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Russell Dorsey

Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey looks at some of the players who have gotten off to hot starts this season and why the Nationals pitcher may be the biggest surprise of them all. There's several players around Major League Baseball having underrated starts of the season, whether that's Atlanta's Drake Baldwin, Dylan Moore of the Mariners, Jacob Wilson of the A's, or even Tyler Malley of the Texas Rangers.

2 weeks ago | ca.sports.yahoo.com | Russell Dorsey

Yahoo Sports national MLB insider Russell Dorsey breaks down the AL West standings and says the division is wide open for any team to come out on top. For nearly a decade, the Houston Astros ran the AL West, but this year the division is wide open. The Mariners, Astros, Rangers and A's each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Yet only two games separate the first place team, the Seattle Mariners, from the 4th place team, the Athletics.