New Team Rumors Functionality On MLBTR Mobile Website

In early March, we rolled out improvements to MLBTR’s search functionality.  As I mentioned at the time, in the process we eliminated a somewhat inconvenient Teams menu that had been in the navigation bar on the mobile website.  To review, the new way to get to the team page is to type a few letters of that team name into the search box. You can start with the city name or the team name. Usually about three or four letters does the trick:

That’ll bring you to our team archive, with all posts tagged with that club in chronological order:

Based on reader suggestions, we have created two additional ways to access team rumors.  The first utilizes the favorite teams you have selected in your MLBTR account.  Here’s how to select your favorite teams.

First, create a free commenter account on MLBTR if you don’t already have one.  Then, once you’re logged in (assuming you’re on a mobile device), tap the three lines icon in the upper right, then the dropdown for My Account, and then Choose Your Favorite Teams:

We’re going to make some improvements to simplify the Favorite Team picker, which currently shows NFL teams by default.  But for now, on the left you’ll see MLB, so tap that.  Scroll to the team(s) you want and select them.  Then hit Save:

After you save your favorite teams, navigate back to mlbtraderumors.com in your browser.  Go to the flame menu up top.  You’ll see that the first entry is now a link to the team rumors pages of your favorites.  This will show up to three favorite teams for a given sport.

So those are two options to reach a team’s rumor page: type it into the search bar, or favorite it and access it via the flame menu.  We have also brought back the original way: choosing a team from a list of all of them.  To do so, go to the three lines icon in the upper right, then hit the dropdown for Teams.  You’ll see all 30 teams listed by division, with minimal need for scrolling.  Tap a team and you’ll go to its rumor page.

After you land on a team rumor page, you can also hit your browser’s Back button to return to this list of all 30 and select a different team.

If you’re on the MLBTR mobile website, you now have three different ways to navigate to a team’s rumor page.  Enjoy!