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…

MLB world reacts to Willie Mays’ death: ‘He is a true giant, on and off the field’

Major League Baseball and San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays died Tuesday at age 93. The…

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…

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…

A 19-year-old Stanford phenom is blazing a new trail from Japan to the majors

STANFORD, Calif. — The dugout chatter for intrasquad games at the Sunken Diamond can be merciless.…