This Great Game Comebacker Archive: 2024

A monthly look back at the baseball stories that made the news—or perhaps slipped through the media’s cracks and didn’t quite earn the attention we thought it would warrant.

January 2024

MLB GMs hop aboard the Orient Express; The Angeloses sell; Bally Sports gets a lifeline, but will that foil MLB’s streaming aspirations?

February 2024

What new ballparks for the Royals and White Sox aim to look like; Las Vegas’ mayor tells the A’s to build that new ballpark—in Oakland; There’s a uniform controversy, and we can all see right through it.

March 2024

Shohei Ohtani’s translator gets criminally greedy; Scott Boras’ wait-it-out approach backfires; The Best and Worst players and teams from Spring Training.

April 2024

The Tommy John epidemic continues—what’s to blame?; Jackson Holliday needs a major league mulligan; Before Vegas, it’s Sacramento, Baby for the A’s.

May 2024

Paul Skenes’ fabulous debut; Angel Hernandez’s long-awaited exit; Negro Leagues stats now count—at least those we can find.

June 2024

Baseball suffers two Giant losses with the passing of Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda; The game’s trouble with legal gambling grows more worrisome; A game won on a walk-off pitch violation.

July 2024

The MLB Draft is spiced with international flavor; Paul Skenes is not letting up; The White Sox lose, lose and lose again.

August 2024

Shohei Ohtani achieves 40-40 vision; More historic misery for the White Sox; How did Danny Jansen end up playing for both teams in the same game?

September 2024

Farewell to the all-time hit king; Farewell to the A’s in Oakland; Shohei Ohtani goes 50-50 on history.

October 2024

The top seeds rule as the Dodgers and Yankees meet again in the World Series; Tropicana Field goes topless—will it be ready for 2025?; Saying goodbye to Fernando Valenzuela.

November 2024

The Rays and St. Petersburg get confrontational over their proposed new ballpark; The Yankees call Gerrit Cole’s bluff; An awards season with no surprises.