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...
By Rustin Dodd, Stephen J. Nesbitt and Cody Stavenhagen When Major League Baseball announced a lifetime ban for San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano on Tuesday,...
Major League Baseball declared San Diego Padres utility player Tucupita Marcano permanently ineligible on Monday, and disciplined four other minor league players, for gambling on 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...
On May 20 in Atlanta, in the evening game of a doubleheader, Fernando Tatis, Jr. sped 84 feet across the outfield grass in Atlanta and crashed...
San Diego second baseman Xander Bogaerts leaps to avoid sliding Luis Arraez, then with the Miami … [+] Marlins, earlier this season. (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty...
SAN DIEGO — Kyle Higashioka spent seven seasons crouching behind home plate for Aroldis Chapman, Gerrit Cole and other pitchers with rare arms and uncommon velocity,...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Teoscar Hernández hit a grand slam, James Paxton tossed six scoreless innings to remain undefeated and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the...