21+ hour, 30+ min ago (915+ words) NEW YORK, NY " When you flip on your television in 2026, baseball games may be a bit confusing to find at first as Major League Baseball and several streaming platforms/networks announced a new series of broadcast rights which will run through 2028." Image Credit: Ernesto Diaz/Latino Sports NBC will be inheriting the Sunday night games ESPN is giving up, and its revived cable arm, NBC Sports Network, will show eighteen late Sunday morning games. NBC will also broadcast some Wildcard playoff games and the Futures Games featuring top minor leaguers which takes place the Saturday before the All-Star Game. Mets release RHP Frankie Montas The Mets bit the financial bullet and released Frankie Montas last week. Montas was Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns" big pitching free agent signing last winter. Many were scratching their heads since Montas was…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago (459+ words) Fifteen-year veteran left-handed starting pitcher Cole Hamels leads the list of twelve first-time candidates on the ballot. Hamels was a four-time All-Star, plus the NLCS and World Series MVP in 2008 for the Phillies. He had a win-loss record of 163-122, a lifetime ERA of 3.43, 2,698 innings pitched, and 2,560 strikeouts. By today's standards, that is a significant accomplishment. So here is the question: are those stats good enough to get him in on the first ballot? Are we comparing players on the ballot now to former ballplayers from their era? Or do we take it back 20, 30, or 40 years of stats? It is impossible to compare Hamels to Bob Gibson, Dizzy Dean, and Sandy Koufax. The game has changed too much over the years. Consider this: Gibson pitched for 17 years, finishing with a record of 251 wins and 174 losses as well as a lifetime ERA…...