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 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...
There were streakers, kissers and wannabe prize fighters. There were arrests, threats and flying chairs. There were bruises, there was blood and there was beer. So,...
CLEVELAND, OH – MAY 20: Cleveland Guardians right fielder Johnathan Rodriguez (30) in the dugout … [+] during the first inning of the Major League Baseball...
Catching was a family tradition, so when Red Sox backstop Reese McGuire was 8 or 9, as he recalled, he tested out his new catching gear...
Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve seen enough to identify reasons for optimism and pessimism for...
So what do you know. We made it through April. What a bizarre month. Taylor Ward outhomered a guy who hit 54 homers last year (Matt...
CLEVELAND — Carlos Carrasco threw his first pitch as a big leaguer 5,352 days ago, a month after he was traded to Cleveland in 2009. He...
CLEVELAND, OH – APRIL 08: Cleveland Guardians second base Andrés Giménez (0) watches the eclipse … [+] prior to the Major League Baseball game between the...
Matt Blake texted Cleveland Guardians pitcher Shane Bieber a conciliatory message over the weekend. As a member of the Cleveland player-development system in the 2010s, Blake...