Juan Soto’s $765 million contract with the Mets is the largest deal in the history of professional sports. Not just MLB — all pro sports. The 15-year deal Soto signed in December 2024 surpassed Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting $700 million deal from just one year earlier, and capped a five-year stretch where the ceiling for elite … Read more
The “biggest” MLB stadium isn’t really a question of dimensions — it’s a question of what actually happens when hitters step in the box. Comerica Park has the deepest center field at 420 feet, but Oracle Park in San Francisco is consistently the hardest stadium to hit a home run in. Coors Field has fences … Read more
Babe Ruth’s 182.6 career Wins Above Replacement is the highest mark in MLB history, and like Cobb’s batting average and DiMaggio’s hitting streak, it’s not getting broken anytime soon. Ruth’s WAR total reflects both his dominance as a hitter (162.3 position player WAR — second only to Barry Bonds) and his early career as a … Read more
How far would your swing actually travel? Exit velocity tells you how hard you hit the ball off the bat, but on its own it doesn’t tell you whether that screaming line drive would clear the wall at Fenway or be a routine fly out at Comerica. The answer depends on launch angle as much … Read more
The 500 home run club is the most exclusive power-hitting milestone in baseball. In over 150 years of MLB and across more than 20,000 players who have ever stepped to the plate, only 28 have crossed the 500-homer threshold. Babe Ruth was the first to do it in 1929, and Miguel Cabrera was the most … Read more
Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak from 1941 is one of the most untouchable records in all of sports. To put it in perspective: in the 84 years since DiMaggio set the mark, only one player (Pete Rose in 1978) has come within 12 games of breaking it. The all-time hits leader, swinging in the prime … Read more
The average Major League Baseball umpire earns about $300,000 a year — more than NFL referees, NHL officials, and the median income of every single state in the US. Top crew chiefs clear $450,000, and an October trip to the World Series adds another $20,000 to the year. It’s a job most people couldn’t get … Read more
Buying a baseball glove sounds simple until you realize an 11-year-old shortstop, an 11-year-old pitcher, and an 11-year-old outfielder all need different sizes — and a catcher’s mitt isn’t measured the same way as any of them. Glove size affects everything from how quickly a fielder can transfer the ball to how easily a young … Read more
OPS stands for On-base Plus Slugging, and it might be the single most useful offensive stat in baseball. Add a hitter’s on-base percentage to their slugging percentage and you get one number that tells you almost everything about their offensive value: how often they reach base and how much damage they do when they hit … Read more
Here’s the single most important concept in the entire baseball card hobby: the same card can be worth $50 ungraded and $4,500 in PSA 10. Not because the card itself is different, but because Professional Sports Authenticator put a tiny number on a plastic slab. The 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. is the textbook … Read more