Sports Illustrated - USA (2020 - Spring)

41 20 Because... BROWN IS THE NEW BLACK The Padres made their biggest winter splash by rummaging in the back of their closet. Mo ...

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SCOUTING REPORTS TEAM PREVIEWS A top-to-bottom evaluation of where each club stands as Opening Day approaches by JOE SHEEHAN 203 ...

BRONX BREAKOUT Infielder D.J. LeMahieu, signed before last season, hit .327 with 26 home runs and finished fourth in AL MVP voti ...

EVERY FEW YEARS the Yankees decide to flex their financial muscles. In 2009 they signed CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burn ...

46 IT SOMETIMES FEELS as if the thrifty Rays, trading and trading and trading in an endless quest for incremental improvements, ...

47 IF THERE’S A pattern to the 21st-century Red Sox, it’s that titles follow turmoil. The team was sold in 2002, turned over its ...

48 IT WASN’T SO long ago that the Blue Jays reached the ALCS in consecutive years (2015 and ’16) and were playing to huge crowds ...

49 THERE ARE A handful of teams—the Royals, Tigers and Pirates join the Orioles on this list—that have fallen on hard times afte ...

MINNESOTA NICE The Twins won the Central last year for the first time since 2010, and thanks to ace José Berríos and a punishing ...

THE TWINS SHOCKED MLB not just by winning 101 games and the AL Central, but also by how they did it: shattering the all-time rec ...

52 THE WHITE SOX were one of just four teams that failed to make the playoffs in the 2010s. GM Rick Hahn spent the winter workin ...

53 IT WAS ANOTHER frustrating winter for Cleveland fans, who watched their club spend more time fielding trade offers for supers ...

54 IT WAS A difficult winter in Kansas City. Fans watched manager Ned Yost retire, then saw David Glass sell the team to Indians ...

55 THE TIGERS MADE history in 2019, joining the Pirates, the original Senators, the Orioles and the Mets as the only franchises ...

A TIME TO HEEL George Springer and Houston have the talent for a fourth straight AL West crown. But now that their cheating has ...

THE ASTROS OPEN the year having been semi-punished for perhaps the most elaborate cheating scheme in baseball history. The playe ...

58 THE A’S HAVE made the playoffs each of the last two seasons and five of the last eight, but failed to advance each time. In 2 ...

59 BEFORE LAST SEASON, the Angels played small ball rather than sign Bryce Harper or Manny Machado. They wound up spending more ...

60 THE LAST TIME the Rangers inaugurated a stadium, they finished atop the AL West. Then again, that 1994 season ended in August ...