Baseball

Shohei Ohtani Shakes Off Bomb Threat as Dodgers Rally in Seoul

The Dodgers and Padres began the 2024 Seoul Series at Gocheok Sky Dome on Wednesday

Remembering the Ballparks of Old New York

Author Kevin Baker shares an excerpt from "The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City"

The National Anthem Controversy Rears Its Boring Head in MLB, Again

San Francisco manager Bob Melvin is requiring the Giants to stand on the field for the anthem

MLB Player Hints Owners Have Colluded This Offseason

Los Angeles Dodger Kiké Hernández made the not-so-veiled assertion

MLB Players Are Calling the New Fanatics Jerseys “Cheap”

Free agent pitcher Rich Hill has emerged as the most openly critical voice

Top MLB Free Agents Remain Unsigned as Spring Training Begins

Super agent Scott Boras is behind many of the holdouts, as his master plan compromises the on-field product

MLB Suspends Billy Eppler For the 2024 Season

Eppler resigned as the Mets' GM last fall

Netflix Will Follow the Boston Red Sox for a New Documentary Series

The streaming giant said the program will debut in 2025

Mets Top List of MLB Teams Paying Luxury Tax for 2023 Season

The previous record was set by the Dodgers in 2015

Is Shohei Ohtani the New Bobby Bonilla? 

Per ESPN, a “majority” of Ohtani’s $700-million contract is deferred

Is America’s Pastime’s Top Star Headed to Canada?

The interwebs certainly think Shohei Ohtani is headed to the Toronto Blue Jays

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Mets Top List of MLB Teams Paying Luxury Tax for 2023 Season

The previous record was set by the Dodgers in 2015

Is Shohei Ohtani the New Bobby Bonilla? 

Per ESPN, a “majority” of Ohtani’s $700-million contract is deferred

Is America’s Pastime’s Top Star Headed to Canada?

The interwebs certainly think Shohei Ohtani is headed to the Toronto Blue Jays

Baseball Addict Ichiro Suzuki Now Pitching Against Teenage Girls

The 50-year-old just hurled a shutout against a team of high-school girls

MLB Strikes Out in Bid to Bring America’s Pastime to Paris

MLB wanted to play regular-season games in France in 2025

No One Watched the Rangers Win the World Series

Texas ended its historic title drought in what may have been the least-viewed World Series of all time

Is This the Year the Less-Hated Texas Baseball Franchise Takes It All?

The Texas Rangers are one of six MLB teams who have never won a World Series

Red Sox Paint New GM as an Out-of-the-Box Hire. He Isn’t.

Ex-player Craig Breslow has agreed to become Boston's next chief baseball officer

The Rangers Have Creed. The D-backs Have…Chris “Mad Dog” Russo?

Arizona was able to use Russo's comments as motivation to win the NLCS

For Game 7, MLB Commish Rob Manfred Is a Phillies Fan

There's no way Manfred and MLB want a Texas-Arizona World Series

Sell the A’s to Trevor May

Oakland deserves professional baseball. Oakland deserves the Athletics.

Texas Ace Nathan Eovaldi Was Made for the MLB Playoffs

Eovaldi improved to 4-0 with a 2.42 ERA in the playoffs this year with a win on Sunday

Home-Field Advantage May Actually Matter in the World Series

But which team will have it? The Rangers, Astros and Phillies all went 90-72.

Japanese Phenom Taking Talents to MLB…as Early as 2027

Rintaro Sasaki is referred to as the "Japanese Prince Fielder"