Tim Kelly
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 14
- Latest publication
- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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MLB Playoffs 2026 Wild Card and Round-by-Round Bracket Picks and Predictions (opens the original)
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Ready or not, the MLB postseason will begin Tuesday with the NLWCS and ALWCS. Given the labor uncertainty in the sport, it's important to savor this final month of baseball. With that in mind, let's get to full predictions for the 2026 MLB postseason, starting with the Wild Card Series and going all the way to selecting a World Series champion. Schedule: 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock Tuesday-Thursday Regular-Season Series: Yankees 7, Red Sox 6 Matchup to Watch: Aroldis Chapman vs. Yankees Aroldis
Tier Rankings For MLB's 50 Best Hitters of 2026 Season (opens the original)
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Who have been the 50 best MLB hitters in 2026? We've broken it down into eight tiers to try to get to that answer. Evaluations were based not only on hitting but also on the ability to draw walks for this list. Stolen bases and fielding were not considered. It's all about what you do at the plate. With that acknowledged, here are our tier rankings for MLB's 50 best hitters of the 2026 season starting with Tier 8. Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 | Tier 6 | Tier 7 | Tier 8 Who: Players
Ranking MLB's Top 10 AL and NL MVP Candidates For 2026 (opens the original)
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For the past couple seasons, it's seemed like a competition to see who would be runner-up in both AL and NL MVP voting. In the AL, Aaron Judge won AL MVP in 2024 and 2025, his second and third AL MVP Awards, respectively. After Shohei Ohtani won AL MVP as a member of the Los Angeles Angels in 2021 and 2023, the two-way superstar joined the Dodgers on a 10-year, $700 million deal. All he did was win NL MVP in each of his first two seasons with the Dodgers, becoming just the second player in MLB h
New York Yankees and 5 MLB Teams Already Regretting Trade Deadline Moves (opens the original)
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Some executives want to move the trade deadline back a couple of weeks because it gives them more time to decide whether their team should be buyers or sellers. Here we are on Aug. 17, and a few teams already would (or should) like a mulligan. Granted, these are extremely short sample sizes, particularly for players who aren't rentals. Nonetheless, in the midst of a pennant chase, one or two bad moments can change the course of a season. With that in mind, here's a look at five teams already reg
A 1 Sentence Breakdown For Every MLB Team With 40 Games to Go (opens the original)
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With 40 games left in the regular season, an overwhelming majority of Major League Baseball's teams are still, at least to some degree, in the postseason race. That's a product of three wild-card spots in each league, and a particularly weak American League in 2026. Even the teams that don't have realistic hopes of playing in October still have plenty to figure out over the final month-plus of the season. So, here's a one-sentence breakdown for every MLB team with 40 games to go. Tampa Bay Rays:
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