Baseball is back, and so are the Hitter Power Rankings.
As we did last season, MLB.com will be checking in throughout the season on the sluggers who are grabbing our attention and making pitchers’ lives difficult. For this pre-Opening Day edition, our voters were tasked with picking the top 10 bats in the Majors, considering not only 2022 performance but also expected ’23 success.
No matter how much teams prepare as Opening Day nears, there’s always an unknown or two — or five — that remain. As we build up to the start of a new regular season, each MLB.com beat reporter highlights one great unknown for their club.
Hired as a hitting coach for the Guardians’ Arizona complex academy, Amanda Kamekona recognizes there aren’t a lot of women who have a position like hers.
As part of his orientation ahead of his July induction into the Hall of Fame, Fred McGriff toured the museum yesterday. “To be a part of this, it’s awesome,” he said. “It’s a blessing. It’s been great.”