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HOUSTON -- Trayce Thompson might've just made the catch of the World Baseball Classic against Team USA. The Great Britain outfielder went up and over the wall in right field at Daikin Park for a sensational home run robbery of Will Smith on Saturday night. As Thompson tumbled to the

MIAMI -- After watching Luis Arraez drive in two runs for Venezuela in its opening win, Willson Contreras wanted the world to know what he thought of his teammate. “Arraez is a great player,” Contreras said of Arraez, who owns a .317 career average and only 36 home runs. “He

MIAMI – For eight innings Saturday, Team Netherlands looked helpless at the plate, stranding 10 men on base while going hitless in six tries with runners in scoring position. One swing by Ozzie Albies erased all of that frustration, turning what would have been a crushing defeat into a Classic

HOUSTON -- Entering the World Baseball Classic, Team Italy manager Francisco Cervelli said his goal was to "put Italy on the map" as a baseball country. So for his team's first game against Brazil on Saturday at Daikin Park, he handed the ball to Sam Aldegheri -- one of the

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The ball jumped off Konnor Griffin’s bat looking like another hard-hit line drive for baseball’s top prospect. “I thought I had me a little single,” the Pirates phenom said afterward. On the other side of the drive, Kevin McGonigle -- baseball’s No. 2 prospect -- had a

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Typically, Spring Training buzz is reserved for the top prospects, the new guys, the players half Max Scherzer’s age. There’s never been anything typical about Scherzer, though, and the Blue Jays don’t need typical. This team doesn’t need average innings in a rotation spilling over with big

Everyone’s favorite dugout espresso machine is back in business. And business is booming. Italy created a stir at the 2023 World Baseball Classic when it housed a Nespresso machine in the dugout. With a little caffeine in their system, the Italians played inspired baseball, advancing out of group play for

HOUSTON -- The first pitch Tarik Skubal threw in the 2026 World Baseball Classic … Nate Eaton took him deep. With Great Britain facing the back-to-back reigning Cy Young Award winner, who was making his one start of the WBC for Team USA on Saturday night, Eaton crushed the first

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- According to MLB Pipeline, Owen Caissie is the No. 42 prospect in all of baseball. That means the red-headed Marlins outfielder is good. Really good.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Canada was an early pick to make it out of Pool A of the World Baseball Classic in Puerto Rico and, well, in their first game on Saturday, they proved why. Manager Ernie Whitt’s squad beat Colombia, 8-2, moving his country to 1-0 in the

TOKYO -- Seiya Suzuki missed Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic title run with an oblique injury, with the team marking his absence by hanging his No. 51 jersey above the bench in the dugout. In Japan's 8-6 win against Korea on Saturday at Tokyo Dome, the Cubs outfielder showed what

Ronald Acuña Jr. can contribute on the baseball field in just about any way imaginable for a position player -- he can deliver a big hit, slug a monster home run, make a tremendous catch in the outfield or steal a big base.

TOKYO -- It's not very surprising that Japan, the three-time World Baseball Classic champions, is undefeated after two ballgames. Many expected this team, loaded with Major League talent and some of the best young players in Nippon Professional Baseball, to sweep through its home group stage at Tokyo Dome --

HOUSTON -- A quick glance at Team Brazil’s roster provides pretty standard information about the players -- bats/throws, height/weight, date of birth, hometown and school attended, where applicable. With no disrespect to Joseph Contreras, his line reads a little bit like … a misprint.

TOKYO -- There’s not many places for a pitcher to hide when facing Samurai Japan. The lineup features one Japanese slugger after another, each with the ability to put the ball over the fence. Facing its rival Korea on Saturday night, Japan showed off that power with three home runs

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- “MLB The Show” saw its realism peak thanks to Marlins right-hander Chris Paddack on Saturday afternoon. Paddack jokingly handed new assistant pitching coach Rob Marcello one of his PlayStation 5 controllers before the club’s 5-4 Grapefruit League loss to the Astros at CACTI Park of

JUPITER, Fla. -- Following two injury-filled seasons, Kodai Senga isn't trying to replicate the 2023 form that led to an All-Star selection. He's hoping mechanical changes to his delivery better suit the pitcher he is now. “My body is different from where it was three years ago now, so I'm

Nicaragua's Emanuel Trujillo didn't have to wait long for his chance at redemption. After striking out with the bases loaded to end the top of the fifth inning of Nicaragua's 4-3 loss to the Netherlands on Saturday, the 24-year-old make a stupendous -- dare we say Jeter-esque -- catch to

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It was more than three years ago that Max Scherzer wrapped up his offseason training with a simple parting message to a then-19-year-old Andrew Painter. "I remember talking about it in 2022, going into '23 [after he had] signed in New York," Painter said. "He was telling

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Jameson Taillon, playing for Team Canada, is getting the start on Sunday against Panama. He's preparing with bullpens, he's talking to his coaches, he's watching video of Panamanian hitters. That's just how proven big league starters get to work. He's been doing it for years.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Veteran catcher Christian Vázquez, who was a part of the Astros' World Series championship team in 2022, is returning to the club on a Minor League deal with an invitation to Spring Training. Vázquez will join the Astros after he’s done playing for Puerto Rico