For Mike Baumann, it started the same way as his first seven seasons in professional baseball. He was, as always, employed by the Baltimore Orioles, the team that drafted him …
Who doesn’t love a good what-if question, so let’s ask this one: What if this baseball season had started in the middle of July instead of the last week of …
ATLANTA — Whit Merrifield has had enough of control-challenged pitchers hitting batters with pitches. The veteran infielder became the latest in a string of Atlanta Braves players hit by fastballs …
After five months of slow and steady, baseball is about to shift into fast and furious mode. It’s almost September, which means the annual all-out sprint to the postseason is …
By Grant Brisbee, Kaitlyn McGrath and Stephen J. Nesbitt Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first …
By Grant Brisbee, Tim Britton and Chad Jennings Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to …
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 in or 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, far from the induction …
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 bolder than others. Prediction: …
Major-league front offices have completed the amateur draft and All-Star week and now can turn their full attention to the July 30 trade deadline. Contending teams are trying to find …