MLB midseason awards 2024: MVP and LVP, Cy Young and Cy Yuk, top rookies and more

We interrupt your mid-July search for your favorite tube of sunscreen for this important announcement: Somehow…

Missing Bats: How an obsession with strikeouts upended the balance of baseball

As a boy pitching on Little League fields in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Tyler Glasnow…

Five years after Tyler Skaggs’ death, his loved ones’ grief remains raw

LOS ANGELES — Without even noticing, Debbie Skaggs, the mother of the late Angels pitcher Tyler…

MLB City Connect: All 28 uniforms ranked, from the so-so to the sublime

As the Minnesota Twins took the field last Friday, they became the 28th team to debut…

MLB Player Poll 2024: Worst organizations, the most overrated peer, best vibes guy and more

In last year’s edition of The Athletic’s annual MLB Player Poll, almost 60 percent of the…

MLB trade deadline tiers: Buyers, sellers and those in between — plus needs for all 30 teams

The normal blueprint for MLB front offices is to spend the first two months of the…

From Dairy Daddies to Trash Pandas: How branding creates fans for lower-league baseball teams

Maybe you’ve seen him. Perhaps his sideways glance and piercing blue eyes have crossed your timeline.…

Mr. Angel? Mike Trout’s chance of ever escaping the franchise now seems even less likely

No player is untradeable, not even an aging, broken-down, signed-through-2030 Mike Trout. But with Trout’s latest…

Reasons for each MLB team to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about the rest of the season

Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve…