The trade deadline is when teams tell you what they really think. The optimistic palaver of the offseason has faded, replaced by real talk: Are we...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — It’s the biggest event of Induction Weekend that no one on the outside ever gets to see. It arrives on that Sunday night,...
With a week to go until the MLB trade deadline, we asked our writers to make a prediction about every team in the league. Some were...
This week serves as a sort of pause for the sport of baseball. The amateur draft, followed by the All-Star Game, followed by the Hall of...
We interrupt your mid-July search for your favorite tube of sunscreen for this important announcement: Somehow or other, the All-Star break is going to arrive in...
Missing Bats, a special series this week in The Athletic, explores how baseball’s profound metamorphosis over the last two decades traces back to one simple idea...
Editor’s note: This column has been updated to include the Los Angeles Dodgers’ second City Connect entry, which was introduced Monday afternoon. When the Minnesota Twins...
In last year’s edition of The Athletic’s annual MLB Player Poll, almost 60 percent of the players we spoke to predicted Shohei Ohtani would be playing...
The Cincinnati Reds plan to be baseball’s best bunting team The Cincinnati Reds are taking an aggressive approach toward a lost art in Major League Baseball....
The normal blueprint for MLB front offices is to spend the first two months of the season evaluating their team, the next two months trying to...