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 Fame induction ceremony feels …
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 like 15 minutes. So …
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 — maximizing strikeouts at …
As a boy pitching on Little League fields in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Tyler Glasnow fixated on missing bats. “Ever since I was a child,” Glasnow said, “any time …
As the Minnesota Twins took the field last Friday, they became the 28th team to debut their City Connect uniforms, capping off the first round of Nike’s planned three-year cycle …
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 for the Los Angeles …
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 improve it — for …
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 in the backyard on …
Weeks before Opening Day this season, Major League Baseball sent a memo to all 30 clubs highlighting a rise in catcher’s interference. The instances of catchers being struck by the …
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 all 30 teams. Is …