These days, every season seems to have a trendy new pitch: the high-spin four-seamer a while back, the sweeper two years ago, the splitter last year, the kick change this year ... presumably some kind of knuckle-fastball next year, if Justin Martinez has anything to say about it. That tells

NEW YORK -- Francisco Lindor’s reaction, if it can be called that, was one of pure stoicism. Lindor swung his bat and dropped it in an eyeblink, giving the ball a token glance as it soared upward. He didn’t bother watching it land in the second deck in right. Instead,

ARLINGTON -- With the way Yoshinobu Yamamoto has looked early on this season, the Dodgers are already envisioning him adding some hardware to a trophy case that's already pretty full. "There's a lot of time, but I do think that right now, he's the best pitcher in the National League,"

You truly never know what you’re going to see on any given day at the ballpark. That mantra was on full display at Wrigley Field on Friday afternoon in front of 39,109 fans and all of us watching at home. The Cubs entered the top of the eighth up 7-1.

Is Hunter Greene reaching his full potential? The early returns in 2025 are encouraging. Long on the baseball radar -- he was a two-way star at a California high school before the Reds took him No. 2 overall in the 2017 Draft -- Greene broke out last season with a

The “Grandson of the Wind” is blowing through MLB this season. Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee descends from Korean baseball royalty. His father, Jong Beom Lee, called the “Son of the Wind,” was a Korean Baseball Organization MVP, six-time Golden Glove winner, 13-time All-Star and two-time Korean Series MVP

TAMPA – All offseason, the Yankees quietly bristled as their defensive shortcomings were re-examined, a frequent topic in dissecting why a long-awaited return to the World Series didn’t go their way. Run prevention was a buzzy topic among decision-makers, along with a promise that efforts would be more buttoned-up in

PHILADELPHIA -- Nobody knows Bryce Harper's swing better than himself. In the visitors’ clubhouse on Sunday in St. Louis, he talked about the Phillies’ offensive struggles on a 2-4 road trip, when the conversation turned to his own play. Harper was hitting .250 with a .766 OPS, but he had

BOSTON -- For the past three seasons, the Red Sox pondered what life could have been like with a healthy Trevor Story. Could the club have made the postseason in at least one of those years?

ATLANTA -- Braves manager Brian Snitker wasn’t willing to commit to Drake Baldwin staying at the big league level as a backup catcher for an extended period. But he appreciated having the chance to bring his team’s top prospect off the bench during the thrilling five-run eighth that provided an

HOUSTON -- The Astros have been wanting, and waiting for, rookie right fielder Cam Smith to start pulling the ball more. Of his first nine hits in the big leagues, only two were hit to left field, including his first career home run a week ago. Smith clearly has shown

TORONTO -- Seven pitchers combined to throw the ball 230 times on Friday night at Rogers Centre, but none of them touched Addison Barger's fastest throw on the radar gun. Barger completely took over the Blue Jays’ 3-1 win over the Mariners with his cannon from right field, and that

BALTIMORE – Elly De La Cruz and the Reds were walking, talking, homer-hitting examples of why the daily grind of a Major League Baseball schedule can also be restorative. One night after a disastrous, error-filled loss to the Mariners that featured blowing a lead in the ninth inning, the Reds

ARLINGTON -- It was an old school pitchers’ duel in the Rangers' 3-0 loss to the Dodgers at Globe Life Field on Friday night, with two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom taking the mound opposite one of baseball’s most electrifying young pitchers in Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

ARLINGTON -- Nothing, it seemed, went right for the Rangers on Friday night in a 3-0 loss to the Dodgers.

You're seeing double, eh? No, you're seeing Double-A. Thursday night's game between Boston's Portland Sea Dogs and Colorado's Hartford Yard Goats produced a glitch-in-the-matrix moment so surreal you won't believe it until you see it. And even then, you're going to do a double take. With one out in the

DETROIT -- The 10th pitch of Friday night from Jackson Jobe registered at 99.1 miles per hour to Royals slugger Vinnie Pasquantino, according to Statcast. It was the kind of power fastball Tigers fans have come to anticipate from Detroit’s top prospect ever since he hit triple digits in his

TAMPA -- Jazz Chisholm Jr. lost his cool after being rung up on a called third strike in the seventh inning on Thursday evening, prompting an on-field outburst that resulted in an ejection. Ushered toward the Yankees’ clubhouse, the infielder still had more to say. Chisholm tapped out a social

CHICAGO -- After the baseball caromed off a video board beyond Wrigley Field’s famous brick wall in right field and bounced back into the outfield, delirium took over in the stands as Kyle Tucker settled into his home run trot. The decibel level remained on the edge of deafening when

ARLINGTON -- Shohei Ohtani wasn't with the Dodgers when they opened their road trip against the Rangers at Globe Life Field on Friday night, and for good reason: He stayed back in Southern California with his wife, Mamiko, who is due to give birth to the couple's first child in

TAMPA -- The fastest man in baseball had to hurry to George M. Steinbrenner Field on Friday night.

PITTSBURGH -- Luis L. Ortiz acknowledged he dealt with “a lot of emotions” on Friday, ahead of his start against the Pirates. But by the time he took the mound for the Guardians’ series opener at PNC Park, the right-hander’s focus was on one thing. “I'm pretty sure [the Pirates]

ANAHEIM -- After a grueling stretch that saw the Angels play 15 of their first 18 games on the road, they received a major boost on Friday with shortstop Zach Neto activated from the 10-day injured list.

DETROIT -- Lucas Erceg seems to have avoided the worst-case scenario after a 109.1 mph liner hit the bottom of his left foot on Friday night, exiting the game with a contusion and not a fracture after X-rays came back negative.

ATLANTA – Luke Keaschall broke into the big leagues in a big way in the Twins' 6-4 loss to the Braves on Friday night at Truist Park. The Twins’ No. 3 prospect (MLB Pipeline No. 57 overall) – whose contract was selected from Triple-A St. Paul prior to the game