A year ago, we conducted an exercise to identify the Ultimate Bandwagon Team for 2025 – a team for those without a specific rooting interest to coalesce behind for the season. What does it take to be an Ultimate Bandwagon Team? As I put it then, you want a team

The 2023 World Baseball Classic was an exhilarating tournament that thrilled us from start to finish. There’s a chance that the ‘26 version is every bit as good. When WBC rosters were unveiled earlier this month, it was abundantly clear just how much talent will take the field in this

ABS (the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile) is finally here, and in Spring Training, we're getting our first good look at which Major League batters and catchers are the best … and worst … at challenging balls and strikes. To keep track of all your challenge needs, we

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Every now and then, you need to lighten things up to break up the monotony of Spring Training. In lefty Payton Tolle, who is probably the most fun-loving person on the Red Sox’s Spring Training roster, manager Alex Cora found the perfect person to do so.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Commuting on Florida’s highways is no vacation. On any given day, Sunshine State motorists deal with traffic-snarling construction, tropical downpours or Disney World-bound tourists who have no idea which exit to take. Now drivers must contend with Spencer Jones’ power, too.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays have developed a powerful new recruiting group: players’ daughters.

Who will be the next great superstar? Which diamond in the rough could be an everyday player? Is the industry too high on a recent high Draft pick? These are questions we ask during the Herculean task of building a Top 100 Prospects list. In combing through in-person looks, video

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Manny Machado looks ready for the World Baseball Classic.

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette grew up together in baseball, rising rapidly through the Blue Jays’ farm system and each debuting in the Majors in 2019. Guerrero and Bichette also share the distinction of being sons of former Major League stars -- Vladimir Guerrero and Dante Bichette were slugging

Konnor Griffin is only 19 years old and already turning heads as MLB's top prospect, flexing his muscle by launching spring dingers out of stadiums. But the Pirates phenom is no stranger to jaw-dropping feats of athleticism. In fact, he's been doing so since the ninth grade (that's only something

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- With a limited time to make a good impression in his second big league camp, Hyeseong Kim has already given the Dodgers a lot to think about. But for the next two weeks or so, the position battle at second base will proceed without him.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Nolan McLean's sendoff to the World Baseball Classic required just one Grapefruit League appearance. He made it a good one. Facing the Astros in West Palm Beach, Fla., On Thursday, the Mets rookie right-hander struck out six batters over four shutout innings, hitting 98 mph

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The mound is 60 feet and six inches from home plate and the bases are 90 feet apart, but that doesn’t mean Astros pitcher Tatsuya Imai isn’t having to make some adjustments on the field in his first year in the Majors. In addition to

It’s exactly one month until Opening Day, and MLB.com’s beat writers have been in camp for a couple of weeks now. So we decided to go around the division and ask some questions of the five American League Central beat writers about what they’ve seen in camp to this point.

NORTH PORT, Fla. -- Along with representing their baseball-rich island nation of Curacao during the upcoming World Baseball Classic, Ozzie Albies and Jurickson Profar will have the chance to play for the Hall of Famer they idolized as children. “I’ve known Andruw [Jones] since I was a young guy,” Profar

Bruce Froemming, who umpired the third-most games in MLB history and a record 11 no-hitters, died Wednesday, according to a report from The Associated Press. He was 86. Serving as a Major League umpire for 37 straight seasons -- from 1971 to 2007 -- Froemming called 5,163 games, second at

PEORIA, Ariz. -- It wasn’t long ago that Julio Rodríguez was in Colt Emerson’s shoes. And the Mariners’ front office hasn’t ruled out a similar Spring Training outcome for their No. 1 prospect by MLB Pipeline (No. 9 overall) to the player who held that distinction four years ago --

Excitement abounds for the 2026 World Baseball Classic, which is set to begin on March 4. With the sixth edition of the international tournament approaching, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced on Thursday that it has opened a new WBC exhibit to capture the thrilling drama, national

Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton missed the first two-plus months of last season due to tennis elbow (epicondylitis) in both arms, an issue he’s been dealing with since 2024. It’s still an issue for the slugger now in 2026. Stanton told NJ.com on Wednesday that he has “good days and

MESA, Ariz. -- As soon as Nick Kurtz stepped onto the practice field with the Athletics last year for his first big league Spring Training, he was so advanced as a hitter that the sense around camp was that it would not be long until he debuted in the Majors.

NORTH PORT, Fla. -- Peyton Glavine was born four years after his dad delivered his Game 6 masterpiece for the Braves in the 1995 World Series. Still, while growing up in Atlanta, he was well aware of the legend his father had created while becoming one of the most successful

MESA, Ariz. -- Like most people back home in Memphis preparing for a frigid winter storm over the offseason, Brent Rooker engaged in a little amateur meteorology by following the weather, sharing shared his findings on social media. Little did he know that he was about to stir up his