The long winter wait is over, and baseball is back in full swing. Saturday marked the first full day of Spring Training games, with all 30 clubs taking the field on the same day for the first time since September. We’ll be keeping track of the top highlights and moments

Bill Mazeroski stood outside on a surprisingly chilly mid-February day a few years ago in Bradenton, Fla., making his annual Spring Training visit to see his former team at the Pirate City training complex. He could still repeat the quick, fluid movements that made him such a renowned defensive second

TAMPA, Fla. – Even if Spencer Jones and Aaron Judge didn’t stand at each others’ eye levels, there would be plenty of reasons to share conversations throughout Yankees camp – their massive power, dependable defense in the outfield, aggressiveness on the basepaths. That height only adds to the available topics.

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Playing his first game at first base, Nick Castellanos hadn’t gotten much action through three innings on Friday afternoon. He was only slated for two at-bats -- and he’d taken both of them. But new Padres manager Craig Stammen asked for one more inning from Castellanos defensively.

JUPITER, Fla. -- A right-handed-hitting outfielder has been on the Cardinals’ wish list all offseason. That move might still be to come. But it might not be as much of a necessity in the wake of Saturday’s news that St. Louis has signed a right-handed-hitting infielder.

The Andre Dawson Classic is an annual, round-robin collegiate baseball tournament designed by Major League Baseball to highlight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their baseball programs. Continuing its goal of highlighting the grand tradition of Black college baseball, the 18th iteration of the tournament (originally known as the

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- It may not be anything serious, but you can forgive the Diamondbacks if they're a bit nervous these days whenever one of their pitchers has any kind of injury issue. Right-hander Merrill Kelly, who was re-signed this winter to a two-year, $40 million contract, was scratched from

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When the Red Sox open their season in Cincinnati on March 26, the first player to step into the batter’s box is all but certain to be Roman Anthony. The emerging star outfielder, all of 21 years old, figures to be a focal point of the

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Mike Yastrzemski was born into the Red Sox family. But while growing up the grandson of a Boston legend, he idolized two other Hall of Famers -- Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones -- and considered the Braves to be his National League team. So, the first-inning

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The Astros’ single-season home run record of 47 was set by Hall of Fame first baseman Jeff Bagwell 26 years ago -- the first year Houston moved into its downtown ballpark. Lance Berkman made a run at Bagwell’s record six years later, but he finished

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The Twins scratched ace Joe Ryan from his scheduled start against the Red Sox shortly before first pitch on Saturday due to what the club is calling “low back tightness in his right side.” Ryan began his warmups prior to the game but was replaced as

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Royce Lewis' offseason work is already paying off. Lewis homered in his first at-bat of 2026 on Saturday, pummeling a 2-2 pitch over the berm and onto the outfield concourse at Lee Health Sports Complex in the first inning of Minnesota's Grapefruit League opener against the

The Mets have had young pitching stars before, have they ever, all the way back to the great Tom Seaver. He was a phenom who stayed a star until he won his 300th game -- with the White Sox by then -- when he was 40. Now another young guy,

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Offensive identities don’t come easily in baseball. Like a good nickname, they need to come naturally. You can’t just choose your own and force it. The 2025 Blue Jays found one. For the first time in years, you could watch a handful of games and describe exactly

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Cal Raleigh knew he was going to utilize a challenge against the first borderline call he caught on Friday. And sure enough, that offering came just seven pitches into the Mariners’ Cactus League opener.

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Eric Lauer knows how to downshift from starting. A year ago, he did it admirably. This year, he hopes he won’t need to do it at all.

SARASOTA, Fla. -- What better way to celebrate your first home run with your new team than to do it against your old team? Ryan O'Hearn made a proper Pirates debut in his old spring stomping grounds by clobbering a three-run blast off fellow lefty Dietrich Enns to cap a

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MESA, Ariz. -- Munetaka Murakami's first White Sox start, scheduled for Friday at Sloan Park, was almost delayed until Saturday’s Cactus League home opener against the Athletics. The White Sox announced Murakami as a healthy scratch somewhere around 30 minutes before the initial pitch of their eventual 8-1 victory over

BRADENTON, Fla. -- The morning meetings down here are ordinarily oriented around the future -- what’s ahead that day, that week, that season. The goal of Spring Training is to propel yourself and your team forward. But when Pirates manager Don Kelly convened his club Saturday morning at LECOM Park,

One of the best parts about the World Baseball Classic is seeing the great players from around the world who we don't see every day in MLB. Those could be international stars from leagues like Japan's NPB or Korea's KBO, or even prospects in MLB organizations who just don't have

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- The last time Shane McClanahan stared down the mound and saw a hitter standing in the batter’s box, he still didn’t have full feeling in his left hand. “I didn't even really count that,” he said. “I couldn't feel my thumb.”

The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System powered by T-Mobile is coming to Major League Baseball this season. For a refresher, you can read about everything you need to know about the ABS system that will bring more accuracy and strategy to the sport. On Friday, we saw the system used