The World Series has arrived, and it's a good one: The 107-win Astros, hoping to collect their second ring in three seasons, face the more-than-a-Cinderella-story Nationals, owners of the second-most wins in baseball over the past seven seasons. Looking for superstars? Friend, you've got them -- on both sides.

HOUSTON -- Almost immediately, it was obvious to some that 16-year-old José Altuve was different. “Sometimes, you just have a feel about a guy,” Al Pedrique said. “With others, you can see it.”

HOUSTON -- Rice University baseball coach Wayne Graham was seated on a folding chair next to an indoor hitting cage when 18-year-old freshman Anthony Rendon grabbed a bat and stepped to home plate for the first time. • World Series presented by YouTube TV, Gm. 1: Tues., 8 p.m. ET

The World Series begins Tuesday, and this World Series is full of great players, including potential Hall of Fame players, who have never won a championship before. That’s the goal of any player, to win a title, which is why the truly great players always try to make sure they

If you like starting pitching, this is the World Series for you. In recent years, and throughout postseason history, we’ve seen dominant World Series performances -- Madison Bumgarner in 2014, and plenty others -- we’ve seen aces in the World Series -- Justin Verlander for the Astros just two years

The Astros are a team many people believed would be here all along. The Nationals were left for dead a couple of months into the season. Now they get set to collide in what should a tantalizing World Series featuring three-deep starting rotations and dangerous lineups. The Nats overcame a

While the Astros and Nationals took strikingly different routes to the World Series, they constructed their pennant winners in similar fashion. Heavily favored to win the American League West, Houston seized the division lead for good by the end of April en route to a franchise-record and Major League-best 107

MLB.com is keeping track of all the latest news and rumors surrounding potential manager changes around the Majors.

Here is a division-by-division breakdown of the impending free agents for all 30 Major League clubs, including players who have 2020 options.

When baseball historians look back at the 2010s, they might refer to it as the lost decade of the Yankees’ storied past. Another season ended in disappointment for New York on Saturday night, as the Astros finished off a six-game American League Championship Series with a 6-4 victory, sending the

No matter what happens this offseason, Madison Bumgarner will be connected to the Giants forever. It couldn’t be any other way, not after the first-round pick from the 2007 Draft spent 11 seasons in San Francisco, made four All-Star teams, played an outsized role in three championship runs, and created

The Astros have reached the World Series for the second time in three years, and they'll open the 115th Fall Classic at home against the Nationals. Game 1 of the 2019 World Series presented by YouTube TV is scheduled for Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET. It will change sites for

The World Series matchup is set. The Nationals and Astros will face off, beginning on Tuesday in Houston. The Nationals will be making their first appearance in the Fall Classic in franchise history, while the Astros are making their third -- but second in three seasons. In 2017, we saw

The Nationals pitched 36 innings in the National League Championship Series -- good ones, allowing only five earned runs in what was arguably the most dominant NLCS or ALCS performance of all time -- and 33 of them, or nearly 92%, came from just six pitchers: starters Stephen Strasburg, Aníbal

Commissioner Robert Manfred issued the following statement today regarding the sudden passing of 21-year Major League Umpire Eric Cooper, who was 52: “This is a very sad day across Major League Baseball. Eric Cooper was a highly respected umpire, a hard worker on the field and a popular member of

CHICAGO -- In the wake of a wild walk-off win over the Yankees on Saturday night, the Astros are on their way to the World Series for the second time in three years. And their bench coach, Joe Espada, is on his way to Chicago for a second managerial interview

Jeff Jones was a former big league pitcher just beginning his second year as a coach when longtime Tigers general manager Bill Lajoie approached him in Spring Training. “Do you know what makes a good pitching coach?” Jones recalls Lajoie asking him.

HOUSTON -- The Astros had their goal set before the American League Championship Series against the Yankees began: Win as fast as possible.

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HOUSTON -- The Astros weren’t built to win just one championship. Raising the trophy one time was never going to be good enough. You don’t endure three consecutive years of losing 100 games to rebuild into a juggernaut and get just one taste of champagne at the end of October.

HOUSTON – There’s a facial expression some people in the game make after a failure. It’s a masking device, often involuntary, and it’s designed to hide the surprise and pain that comes with a devastating defeat in baseball. It was the face of a stunned Aroldis Chapman as he watched

WASHINGTON -- It was the 14th anniversary of Ryan Zimmerman’s Major League debut, and it was time to dance in the dugout.