AUSTIN (KXAN) – In a world where information is easier to access than ever, baseball is a very clear example of that. Players and teams can access so much data about nearly every part of the game.

Explore how advanced data and high-level scouting changed professional sports. From the farm system to the big leagues, we look at the evolution of player analysis.

The team showed the sport—and plenty of other businesses—a new way to build a successful team.

Baseball has always been a game of numbers. Batting averages, earned run averages, and home run totals measure performance.

In the original form of baseball, all nine players bat and play defense, including the pitcher. The designated hitter system lets a team add a tenth player to the starting lineup—a specialist batter ...

It was another notable weekend of college action, with many premier teams facing off in multiple tournaments around the country. This provided several premium matchups to go along with some primary ...

There is no crying in baseball, right? Wrong. At some point, everybody who ever plays ball — little leaguers, high schoolers, probably big leaguers when the cameras aren’t around —sheds tears. The ...

Week 4 of the college baseball season marked the opening of conference play in the ACC and the Big Ten, while it signaled the end of non-conference play for the SEC. Before we look ahead to plenty of ...

As Japan's Central League prepares to adopt the designated hitter rule in 2027, new research shows that teams with skilled players win games with or without batting specialists In the original form of ...