Hitting is hard. I could barely do it when I was 14, playing on the freshman team in Western Massachusetts, where the talent pool isn’t full of future major leaguers. If the pitchers started throwing ...

The Miami Marlins got themselves a flamethrower that could emerge in the next couple of years. His command and discipline in learning and working to become a great pitcher are great traits. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jorge Polanco’s experience at first base consists of one pitch, when San Francisco’s Wilmer Flores lined a sinker off the end of his bat toward right field in the ninth inning of a ...

Carlos Vargas probably isn’t the worst reliever in baseball. Vargas threw 77 innings for the Mariners in 2025. It was eighth most by any reliever in MLB. With a 4.59 FIP across all those appearances, ...

Ryan Johnson was not one of the debuting prospects to get a call-up article for Opening Day. Now the standard for who gets one can be kind of fuzzy. Obviously the Top 101 prospects—or really anyone in ...

The Colorado Rockies had their worst season ever in 2025. But Tommy John surgery wasn’t to blame. The surgery is baseball’s most famous and important surgery. The operation, now more than 50 years old ...

The Padres lost Dylan Cease to the Blue Jays in free agency, but they won’t have to say goodbye to Michael King, too. San Diego is bringing back a key piece of a rotation that needed to be addressed, ...

NEW YORK — Jorge Polanco’s first base experience is one pitch, when San Francisco’s Wilmer Flores lined a sinker off the end of his bat toward right field in the ninth inning of a tied game last April ...