They threw an oversized men’s jersey on 11-year-old Landon Thome and pointed him toward home plate. It was the 2019 All-Star Celebrity Softball Game in Cleveland’s Progressive Field, the ballpark where Landon’s father, Jim, hit 190 of his 612 career home runs. But he wanted his young son to take

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, with its growing legacy for producing MLB players, would seem to be a magnet for a young, aspiring ballplayer like Gio Rojas. His family was willing to uproot from his native Colorado to better his chances of being seen by pro scouts, and so the

Justin Lebron has smashed his share of baseballs and watched his share of ballgames. But the best bat flip he’s ever seen belongs to his brother, Jayden. Born with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes high risk for heart and blood vessel issues, Jayden Lebron was not able

He left his friends, his father and all that was familiar. With his mother, his sister and his stepfather, he traveled on foot and on bus for thousands of miles, along winding mountain roads, across flash-flooded rivers and through the dense rainforest, the jungle and the dangerous regions controlled by

PHOENIX – The birth announcement declared the arrival of “Daniel Roch” and that was probably the last time anybody called him “Daniel” instead of his much cooler middle name. Back in April 2005, Roch Cholowsky was described by his parents – former Minor Leaguer turned scout Dan and his wife,

The American League and National League rosters for the 2026 All-Star Game presented by Mastercard will be announced on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET on FOX. If you want to know how the starters will be chosen, and how the remaining players will be picked, for the July 14 Midsummer

America’s pastime and America’s birthday have long been intertwined. In fact, the holiday has served as a backdrop to many special moments over the years. Here is a look back at some of the most memorable. (Note: This story originally ran on July 4, 2022)

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League has embarked upon a second season that is also a new beginning. After barnstorming its way across the country in its inaugural year, the AUSL is now structured as a more traditional, city-based league in 2026 and going forward. The league has six teams --

ROCK HILL, S.C. -- The sun was literally setting behind the batter’s eye, just as it was figuratively setting on his high school baseball career. As the batting-practice pitch from his father arrived at the plate, Parker McGee took one sweet swing, watched the long fly ball land beyond the

Major League Baseball has accepted the MLB Players Association’s proposal to reduce the amount of service time required to reach free agency for certain players and to eliminate the qualifying offer system as part of a reserve system proposal made to the union on Thursday. Under the terms of the

This one goes out to you schedule sticklers, the real ones who know that we are nearly halfway through the 2026 campaign. Teams will begin playing their 81st games on Tuesday, and the season will reach its exact midpoint (1,215 total games in) later this week. We don’t (yet) have

MLB’s T-Mobile Home Run Derby is going off the clock, and that’s going to have big implications for this annual, dinger-driven event. Let us not cry for the clock. For a time (pun intended), it breathed new life into the Derby. It walked so that the pitch clock could run

You can throw a no-hitter or perfect game and not be as utterly overwhelming as Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski was against the Phillies on Friday night. Yes, the Miz gave up a fourth-inning single to Kyle Schwarber. And as singles go, it was a no-doubter, a flare to the center-field

Jacob Misiorowski is the hardest-throwing starting pitcher ever. That’s not hype. That’s not a hot take.

Believe it or else, we are roughly 40% of the way through the season. That’s a pretty crazy number to those of us who feel like Opening Day was just a couple weeks ago. But there are other crazy numbers that illustrate the major storylines that have emerged.

When Payton Tolle was giving an in-game interview to NESN last week, there, just off-camera, was Red Sox rotation mate Connelly Early, playfully pelting him in the head with a piece of gum. And when Tolle was finished throwing a between-starts bullpen session at Cleveland's Progressive Field on Sunday, there

CLEVELAND -- To watch the 2026 Guardians once again assert themselves at the top of the AL Central is to see what can happen when a ballclub on a budget nails the first round of the amateur Draft. As Gavin Williams (23rd overall pick, 2021) cements himself as a top-end

Memorial Day is a major milepost in MLB, a time to take a gander at the standings and know that, if history holds, most of the teams in playoff position will remain that way at season’s end. Ah, but there’s a reason we have Memorial Day parades this time of

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for May 21.

Rays manager Kevin Cash is certainly not alone in observing the velocity, spin and movement of modern pitching and coming to an accurate conclusion. “We’re probably understanding and learning, as an industry,” Cash told MLB.com’s Adam Berry, “that hitting is [expletive] hard.” So hard that Cash’s club and quite a

Bob Skinner, whose six decades in professional baseball included two World Series rings as a player and another as a coach, passed away Monday in the San Diego area. He was 94. Skinner was a three-time All-Star with the Pirates and a member of their 1960 World Series championship team.

Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for May 4. 1) Ken Oberkfell (1956) In a career that spanned 16 seasons from 1977 to 1992 -- primarily

For the record, we don’t recommend bad records. The more games you lose early, the more games you have to make up later in order to make it to the playoffs. You can look it up, it’s science. But if you see would-be contenders enduring a gruesome stretch and read

In many places on many days in March and April, the conditions, to paraphrase W.C. Fields, ain’t fit for man nor beast nor baseball. And yet early storylines always emerge that make us feel warm and fuzzy, regardless of whether the sun cooperates. You could actually field a full team

It was 25 years ago that a 13th-round Draft pick out of junior college emerged out of nowhere to rip 88 extra-base hits for the Cardinals and the first position player to go from Nippon Professional Baseball to MLB cranked out 242 hits and 56 steals for the 116-win Mariners.