TORONTO -- Daulton Varsho, are you serious? In his 2025 debut, fresh off the IL Tuesday in Toronto, Varsho made a catch we’ll be talking about all season long.

Time sure flies, doesn’t it? We’re already a month into the 2025 season and, while it’s still early, plenty of important developments have taken place with the playoff picture. What’s made the early playoff outlook fascinating is the difference between the two leagues, with more clarity about who the good

The Washington Nationals are on the clock. OK, not quite yet, but they do have the No. 1 pick in this year’s Draft, and MLB Pipeline has an updated and expanded Draft Top 150, ranking the players all 30 teams are criss-crossing the country to see to line up their

BALTIMORE – As Yogi Berra might have said, it was déjà vu all over again. The Yankees became the first team in AL/NL history to open multiple games with three consecutive homers in a single season, repeating their feat one month to the date. Trent Grisham, Aaron Judge and Ben

TORONTO -- Clearly, the Boston bats had no trouble clearing customs. And to say Jarren Duran was a tone-setter when he belted the third pitch of Tuesday night’s game at Rogers Centre over the wall in right field would be an understatement.

LOS ANGELES -- One night after needing to grind out a comeback victory in a game where they’d had the chance to win comfortably, the Dodgers kept their foot on the gas and cruised to a series win. Shohei Ohtani led off the bottom of the first inning with a

NEW YORK -- Somewhere between the offense scoring eight more runs and the defense completing three straight noteworthy plays and Pete Alonso making history and the team running its home winning streak to eight, an undeniable truth became clear. This Mets club is pretty darn good.

Could the AL East have five teams finish .500 or better? Is the NL East a two-way tussle between the Mets and Phillies or will the Braves find a way to make it a three-legged race? And in the NL West, the Dodgers are the favorites to win the division,

PITTSBURGH -- It’s safe to say Cubs starting pitcher Shota Imanaga has laid to rest any idea of a sophomore slump.

ARLINGTON -- Entering Tuesday’s matchup with the A’s, Jacob deGrom had received nine total runs of support in his five starts (27 IP) in 2025, good for a 3.00 run support average that would rank tied for 12th-lowest in the American League if he qualified with enough innings. deGrom’s 4.20

The first two games in Houston this week somewhat aside, there aren’t many more fun teams to be right now than the Detroit Tigers. They’re fresh off a wild late-2024 run that got them into the playoffs and, ultimately, the American League Division Series. They’ve got one of the most

Last week against the Dodgers, Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong made one of the finest defensive plays of the young season. Unfortunately for him, he performed his job a little too well. Even if you were watching the game in real time, you likely neither noticed nor cared that he

The NHL playoffs are underway, with plenty of goalies logging standout performances on a nightly basis. Those netminders are focused on stopping projectiles, but Tuesday night's top save may have come courtesy of Jonah Hurney for the Reds' High-A affiliate Dayton at Parkview Field.

CLEVELAND -- With how much the Guardians have been forced to lean on their bullpen over the past few days, and considering the grueling stretch of schedule they’re currently in, they desperately needed Tanner Bibee to step up on Tuesday. Bibee understood the assignment. Following a three-hour, 10-minute rain delay,

SEATTLE -- Nobody in baseball is slugging like Jorge Polanco right now, and as the sample size continues to grow as the calendar progresses toward May, so too does the veteran’s impact within the Mariners’ beleaguered lineup.

PHILADELPHIA -- A win is a win … but some wins are certainly wilder than others. That was certainly the case in the Phillies’ 7-6 walk-off victory over the Nationals. It was Philadelphia’s first walk-off wild pitch win since April 26, 1993 -- and that was far from the craziest

SAN DIEGO -- Xander Bogaerts couldn’t help but smile as he rounded first base during his home run trot on Tuesday night. “Haven’t had one of those in a while,” Bogaerts would later say. “It was good to feel that.”

HOUSTON -- Slowly but surely, Christian Walker’s bat appears to be rounding into form following a slow start with the Astros. Yordan Alvarez hasn’t slugged anywhere close to his normal level yet, but there’s no reason to believe it’s not coming, considering his track record. So what about Yainer Diaz?

BALTIMORE – The official announcement over the public-address system in the Camden Yards press box prompted more than a few quizzical stares, sharing that Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. had exited Tuesday’s game with “right flank discomfort.” The concern was, as manager Aaron Boone would later reveal, in the area

DENVER -- Braves starting pitcher AJ Smith-Shawver left Tuesday’s 8-2 win vs. the Rockies at Coors Field in the sixth inning after being hit in the right arm by a 105.3 mph line drive off the bat of Ryan McMahon. Smith-Shawver recovered to field the ball and throw McMahon out

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CHICAGO -- A pair of four-seam fastballs from Freddy Peralta in the bottom of the first Tuesday night turned into back-to-back homers from White Sox hitters Andrew Benintendi and Luis Robert Jr.

TAMPA -- A similar storyline followed the Royals on the road to begin their series in Tampa this week: A whole lot of good pitching -- and just enough offense. Michael Lorenzen tossed six innings of one-run ball, while the Kansas City bullpen continued its strong stretch of games by

DENVER -- You can pick and choose why the Braves have been so effective over the last 11 games, going 9-2 over the stretch and securing their fourth straight series with a pair of wins over the Rockies on Monday and Tuesday (8-2 at Coors Field), boasting 14 hits in

PITTSBURGH -- Paul Skenes hasn’t had a chance to watch Bubba Chandler pitch this year. He doesn’t know how many hits he has allowed so far offhand or what the scouts are saying right now. But is Skenes excited about the prospect of having Chandler join the Pirates’ rotation? Well,