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The 2025 Rawlings Gold Glove winners highlight baseball's new defensive era. From Bobby Witt Jr. to Fernando Tatis Jr., nine first-time honorees and elite veterans proved that smart, data-backed defense drives today's game - and tomorrow's team-building.
Started in this 2025–26 season, NCAA Division I baseball enters a new phase: 34 scholarships for 34 roster spots, flexible aid stacking, shifting recruiting timelines, and direct athlete payments up to $20.5M. Here's how programs, families, and recruits can navigate the rules and the real impact.
The Los Angeles Dodgers made MLB history by repeating as World Series champions, outlasting the Toronto Blue Jays in a dramatic seven-game thriller. Fueled by a $416.9M payroll, clutch heroics, and unmatched resilience, L.A. became baseball's first repeat champ since 2000.
The 2026 World Baseball Classic returns with 20 teams, four global host cities, and a packed March 5-17 schedule. Here's your Back Office Sports breakdown of venues, pools, timelines, and the strategic implications shaping baseball's international stage and the fan, media, and revenue impact behind it.
The 2026 MLB qualifying offers are coming fast! Explore which free agents will accept or reject, key trends, deadlines, and potential roster impacts for the offseason. Track the top eligible players and join the baseball conversation with forty4 Talks Baseball.
Baseball's offseason Hot Stove League is back - where rumors fly and every fan dreams big. Learn when MLB free agency begins, key offseason dates, and how to decode the jargon like a front office pro. Stay smart, stay passionate, and stay tuned with forty4 Talks Baseball.
The Dodgers' $500M World Series win over the Blue Jays was more than a title - it was a global event. With Ohtani's brilliance, looming labor battles, Japanese stars rising, and robot umpires on deck, baseball's next era is bold, brilliant, and ready to evolve.
MLB has locked in new media rights deals with ESPN, NBC, and Netflix for 2026-28, shifting major events across top platforms. ESPN adds MLB.TV and midweek action, NBC takes Sunday nights and the Wild Card round, and Netflix lands the Home Run Derby. Here's what the changes mean for the sport's business future.