Alex Bregman

This week's mailbag gets into how long Paul Skenes will stay a Pirate, Alex Bregman opt-out scenarios, the NL East favorite, extensions for young Nationals players, potential Sandy Alcantara trade returns, the automated ball-strike system, and much more. John asks: I figure the Bucs' cheap owner will trade Skenes before his first arbitration year because…

This week's mailbag gets into how long Paul Skenes will stay a Pirate, Alex Bregman opt-out scenarios, the NL East favorite, extensions for young Nationals players, potential Sandy Alcantara trade returns, the automated ball-strike system, and much more. John asks: I figure the Bucs' cheap owner will trade Skenes before his first arbitration year because…

Opening Day is three weeks away and the spring training experiments are underway

Jose Altuve is expected to play mostly in left field this season even though the Astros didn't acquire a clear replacement at second base.

The concept of Jose Altuve moving from second base to left field first emerged when the Astros reengaged with Alex Bregman late in the offseason. USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reported at the time that there were talks of re-signing Bregman, sliding Isaac Paredes from third base to second base and shifting Altuve to the outfield.…