Get ready to dive into World Baseball Classic pool play. The 2026 tournament, which gets underway this week, features four pools: A, B, C and D. Each of those pools consists of five teams battling it out in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each pool then advance

Baseball's premier international tournament is back. Twenty teams from all over the globe are set to vie for supremacy at the 2026 World Baseball Classic, starting Wednesday night ET. In the end, only one will stand tall. How will it all play out? We put it to a vote, asking

The World Baseball Classic is finally here and the first game could have a huge impact on how Pool C shakes out. Australia finished second in the Tokyo pool in 2023, while Chinese Taipei – which upset Japan to win the 2024 Premier12 inside the Tokyo Dome – was relegated

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Vance Honeycutt is slugging his way to a new nickname this spring: “Home Run Honeycutt.” Because the only thing the 22-year-old Orioles prospect is doing is going deep. In one of the most unbelievable tears to open a Spring Training, Honeycutt improved to 4-for-4 with four home

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Yankees No. 1 prospect George Lombard Jr. said hello to Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet, and greetings to a nationally televised audience on ESPN, by clocking a home run that soared over JetBlue Park’s replica Green Monster to lead off New York's 4-0 victory in Wednesday’s

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Payton Tolle fired a fastball at 100.4 mph for one punchout, stuck the landing on a curveball for a called strike three, and didn’t try to hide his emotion during any of it. MLB Pipeline’s No. 19 prospect (and tops in Boston’s recently released Top 30)

MESA, Ariz. -- Back in February 2019, the Athletics were left at the altar by Kyler Murray, who opted to forgo a professional baseball career despite signing a deal with them as their 2018 first-round Draft pick. Murray instead declared for the 2019 NFL Draft, where the Arizona Cardinals selected

Clayton Kershaw may have retired from MLB, but he's still pitching against Major League teams. The decorated left-hander, who won three Cy Young Awards, an MVP Award, 11 All-Star selections and three World Series rings over 18 Major League seasons, called it a career following the Dodgers' 2025 World Series

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The World Baseball Classic hasn’t even officially started yet, and Junior Caminero is already making a powerful impression on the international stage. Caminero went 4-for-4 in the Dominican Republic team’s 12-4 win over the Tigers on Tuesday night at Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal in Santo Domingo,

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rangers manager Skip Schumaker overlapped with a couple of his current players in his playing days, including his top starting pitcher, Jacob deGrom. He doesn’t remember much of his plate appearances against his former National League foe, but he was 2-for-3 against deGrom in his career. He

The 2026 World Baseball Classic is finally here, so let's take a deeper dive into the top young talent who will be representing their roots on the world stage. There will be 28 prospects from organizational Top 30 Prospects lists set to compete in the event, seven of them who

The Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday acquired infielder/outfielder Tyler Callihan from Cincinnati, in exchange for right-handed pitcher Kyle Nicolas. The 25-year-old Callihan began the 2025 campaign with Louisville (Reds’ Triple-A), where he batted .303 (27-for-89) with four doubles, two triples, four home runs, 12 RBI, 16 walks, six stolen bases, 19

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies No. 1 prospect Ethan Holliday hadn’t played in a game since September and was last on the field under game conditions in instructional ball last October. But on Wednesday, less than a year after graduation from Stillwater High School in Oklahoma, Holliday, 19, was on the

Many players in Spring Training can rest easy knowing that they will be on their team's active roster come Opening Day. They just want to stay healthy and gear up for the grind of a 162-game season. But for many others, nothing is guaranteed. Every at-bat, every inning pitched in

GOODYEAR, Ariz. – Reds ace Hunter Greene is scheduled for an MRI on Friday after reporting right elbow stiffness earlier this week, manager Terry Francona said on Wednesday. The team booked the procedure after Greene woke up with the discomfort on Tuesday, and he will be evaluated by team physician

MARYVALE, Ariz. -- Cubs catcher Moisés Ballesteros positioned himself on one knee, holding up his glove in the heart of the zone for Edward Cabrera. The hard-throwing righty then unleashed his signature changeup, which only briefly flirted with a trajectory to that visual target. The pitch broke down sharply, veering

SANTO DOMINGO -- Juan Soto had never played an official game at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, in winter ball or in any other event. But in the two exhibition games with Team Dominican Republic in preparation for the 2026 World Baseball Classic, he showed that the spacious stadium is

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Phillies closer Jhoan Duran didn’t want to talk about it. But it’s real. He threw it.

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Joe Musgrove returned to the mound for the Padres’ exhibition against Team Great Britain on Wednesday -- the first time he’d pitched in a game setting since his October 2024 Tommy John surgery.

TOKYO -- Wake up early if you want to catch the fan favorite Czechia go up against Korea, which is hoping to advance beyond the first round for the first time since losing to Japan in the 2009 championship. While the Czechs are known for being a team of amateur

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- In the run-up to the World Baseball Classic, Team USA is taking cues from the most decorated athlete in Olympic history: 23-time gold medalist Michael Phelps. The legendary swimmer was invited to attend Team USA’s group dinner on Monday night and shared an inspiring speech that resonated

Before the 2023 World Baseball Classic, we went to Prague to shoot a "Behind the Flag" feature on Czechia's national baseball team. There, in the cradle of Central Europe, we met this team of mostly amateur players who each have day jobs ranging from firefighter to electrical engineer to neurologist