Spring Training is always a testing ground for new pitches. It seems like every pitcher is trying something new with their arsenal. The regular season is another story. New pitch experiments from the spring evaporate as quickly as they came -- see Garrett Crochet and his new splitter, for example,

PITTSBURGH -- It took just five pitches for baseball’s most highly touted prospect to make an impact at the plate as he debuted Friday afternoon in the Pirates' home opener against Baltimore. Batting seventh and starting at short in front of a sellout crowd of 38,986 at PNC Park, Konnor

MINNEAPOLIS -- Less than two weeks ago, as he was turning 30 with 122 Major League plate appearances to his name, Tristan Gray and his wife Madelyn had a frank conversation. It was time to start talking contingencies if Gray was faced with another year in the Minor Leagues. After

DETROIT -- Justin Verlander's return to the mound at Comerica Park in a Tigers uniform will have to wait. Detroit placed the former AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner on the 15-day injured list Saturday with left hip inflammation. The move is retroactive to Wednesday, meaning he’ll be eligible

SAN FRANCISCO -- Nobody in the Mets’ sphere ever wanted to hear “Juan Soto” and “MRI”’ in the same breath. Yet that is the reality the team is facing after playing its best all-around game Friday night and swamping the Giants, 10-3, at Oracle Park to end a three-game losing

There's a longstanding baseball-ism that says you'd rather be lucky than good. Cody Bellinger is good, but he wasn't afraid to give Lady Luck her due credit after he made a crazy catch in the Yankees' 8-2 win over the Marlins on Friday in their home opener. With nobody out

In the end, Heliot Ramos was just like the rest of us -- staring in disbelief at Nolan McLean's insane stuff. The Mets right-hander was unhittable for much of Friday’s start against the Giants at Oracle Park, taking a perfect game into the sixth inning, but his final strikeout of

CHICAGO -- Alejandro Kirk has a fracture in his left thumb, the Blue Jays announced, which also dislocated when he caught a foul tip off the bottom edge of his glove in Friday’s 5-4 loss to the White Sox in Chicago. Kirk is headed to the IL, but for how

The Cubs are calling up lefty prospect Riley Martin from Triple-A Iowa, a source told MLB.com on Saturday. The club has not confirmed the move. Martin, 28, the team's No. 28 prospect per MLB Pipeline, was selected by the Cubs in the sixth round of the 2021 MLB Draft out

MLB hitters love to bat in big spots, so much so that sometimes they don't even notice when the other team wants nothing to do with them. Ask Julio Rodríguez about that. In Friday night's Mariners-Angels game, Rodríguez came to bat in the top of the 10th with a runner

Barely a week into the 2026 season, it’s simply too soon to make any realistic predictions about how the year will play out. At this point, projecting with confidence which teams will win their divisions or which players are in line to win their leagues’ major awards is generally inadvisable.

Opening Day marks a new era for the longstanding relationship between MLB and ESPN. Though ESPN is no longer the home for “Sunday Night Baseball” (now on NBC) or the Home Run Derby (now on Netflix), the sports broadcasting network is actually bringing fans more baseball than ever.

Giants No. 21 prospect Daniel Susac, brother of former big leaguer Andrew, had quite the MLB starting debut against the Mets on Thursday night. He singled in his first at-bat, singled in his second at-bat, walked in his third at-bat and then singled once again in his final at-bat. According

PITTSBURGH -- The spotlight was entirely on Konnor Griffin as the No. 1 prospect in baseball made his Major League debut on Friday for Pittsburgh's home opener in front of a packed house at PNC Park. But there were other players, in both the Pirates’ and Orioles’ dugouts, who understood

SAN FRANCISCO – For five innings Friday night, Nolan McLean was perfect – 15 batters up, 15 batters down – making one wonder if the second-year right-hander could flirt with perfection in his 10th big league start. McLean knew better. He had fallen into a ton of deep counts because

CLEVELAND -- Progressive Field echoed each time Chase DeLauter stepped to the plate on Friday, as the crowd sang along to his walk-up song, John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” “Hearing that from the first inning on, it's chills every at-bat,” DeLauter said. “It's something a lot of players

WASHINGTON -- When Shohei Ohtani goes, so do the Dodgers. And that was true in a big way in Friday afternoon's 13-6 victory over the Nationals. Ohtani launched his first home run of the season in the third inning, a three-run blast that tied the contest at 3 before the

NEW YORK -- “Suits tomorrow.” That was the late-night directive from Aaron Judge, sent via text to teammates ahead of Friday’s home opener at Yankee Stadium -- crisp shirts, pressed slacks, shoes shined to a gleam.

PHOENIX -- There’s still reason to be concerned about the Braves’ starting pitching depth. But you can also acknowledge that the rotation has been the team’s most encouraging aspect through the season’s first week. One night after Reynaldo López provided further reason to think he is healthy, Grant Holmes did

ANAHEIM -- It took nearly three hours for the Mariners to come to life on Friday night at Angel Stadium. But when they did, they completed a 3-1 win with two of their wildest highlights of this young season. Andrés Muñoz won a tense showdown with Mike Trout for a

BOSTON -- It had been a gloomy first week of baseball on the road for the Red Sox, and it was cloudy and cool outside when Fenway Park opened its gates for a 115th season on Friday. But by the time the pregame ceremonies started, honoring Boston’s pennant-winning squad of

MINNEAPOLIS -- Byron Buxton certainly felt some frustration as a result of being hit by a pitch in the Twins’ home opener against the Rays on Friday, but it was drowned out by his delight at the team’s hard-fought 10-4 win. Buxton was removed immediately after being hit by a

Konnor Griffin is in the Majors. The Pirates promoted MLB Pipeline’s No. 1 overall prospect prior to their home opener on Friday -- several weeks before his 20th birthday.

WASHINGTON -- With the Dodgers' home run party in full swing, Kyle Tucker joined in on the fun. Tucker went deep for the first time as a Dodger in L.A.'s 13-6 win on Friday afternoon, slugging a solo shot off Nationals left-hander Ken Waldichuk to extend Los Angeles' lead to