Although Opening Day in Cincinnati is treated like a local holiday with a parade among the festivities, the Red Sox and Reds will be getting down to the business of beginning a 2026 season that comes with higher expectations. Both clubs reached the postseason in 2025 only to be eliminated

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Some decisions had been made weeks ago. Others came down to the final days of camp. The way it has all come together, Red Sox manager Alex Cora has a 26-man roster that gives him great enthusiasm going into the ‘26 season, all the while knowing

The Major Leaguers get to have their Opening Day fun on Wednesday and Thursday. Come Friday, it’ll be Triple-A ballplayers’ turn. The International and Pacific Coast League regular seasons both begin on March 27 this year, meaning MLB hopefuls from coast to coast will take their first throws and hacks

The Major League season kicked off Wednesday night, but for fans of prospects, the real fun begins on Friday when Triple-A action returns with a full slate of games around the International and Pacific Coast Leagues. An AL East rivalry gets the 15-game schedule started with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (NYY) visiting Buffalo

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.

All 30 teams have an Opening Day starting pitcher. But even from that select group, there are some who stand out. These are the true aces, the unquestioned No. 1 starters, the Cy Young Award hopefuls. When they take the ball, their teams expect to win.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- It came down to the last day of camp, but the race for the fifth spot in the Red Sox's starting rotation has been decided. Between new acquisition Johan Oviedo and left-handed youngsters in Payton Tolle and Connelly Early, it was Early who was given the

Kevin McGonigle (MLB No. 2), JJ Wetherholt (MLB No. 5) and Carson Benge (MLB No. 16) will open the 2026 season as Major Leaguers, along with 17 other members of MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list. Baseball's No. 1 prospect Konnor Griffin will begin at Triple-A. Those were just some

The 2026 MLB regular season is actually here! It all starts with the MLB Opening Night game between the Yankees and Giants on Netflix at 8:05 p.m. ET on Wednesday. That leads directly into Opening Day on Thursday. That means you only have a handful of hours left to make

When you think of the Red Sox and a rivalry, you think of the Yankees. But Boston is bringing a different form of the concept to Fenway Park this summer. The club, in partnership with publisher Harlequin, announced it is planning a unique promotional theme night based on the hit

A tasty new menu item is shipping up to Boston for the 2026 season. The Red Sox will be serving up “Lobstah Poutine” at Fenway Park this year, transforming the traditional Canadian comfort dish into something that’s unmistakably New England.

It’s not always easy to predict the winners of MLB’s highest-profile awards: While some favorites live up to expectations, other players often come out of nowhere to earn major honors. How will things play out in 2026? We asked 57 MLB.com experts to predict who will win this season’s Baseball

Two of Major League Baseball's more storied franchises, the Red Sox and Reds, have never previously met on Opening Day. But they have multiple connections that touch both fanbases. For an older generation, thoughts will go back to 1975. That's when Boston and Cincinnati clashed in one of the greatest

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- As the hours wind down until Opening Day is upon us and the games finally begin to count, the Red Sox, like every other team in the Majors, are making final roster decisions. On Monday morning, the club announced World Baseball Classic standout Nate Eaton was

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- There’s a real international flavor to the Red Sox farm system these days. They lead baseball with 15 members of their Top 30 list coming via the international market. It starts with No. 2 prospect Franklin Arias and continues with signings large and small from the

In February, MLB Pipeline's experts attempted to predict which Minor Leaguers would make Opening Day rosters by assigning likelihood percentages to several Top 100 prospects. Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo gave 100 percent chances to five different prospects, four of whom have already made their MLB debuts. They also pegged

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Finally, we can see the finish line. Which is, of course, the starting line. Spring Training has nearly come to an end, and Opening Day is so close we can almost see the bunting. (The decorations, not the small-ball strategy.) There hasn’t been a ton of drama in what figures

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Red Sox manager Alex Cora ended whatever suspense was left on Saturday morning when he named Marcelo Mayer his primary second baseman for the coming season. Once the decision was made over the last couple of weeks that Caleb Durbin was going to be the starting

With Spring Training winding down and Opening Day just days away, intriguing questions abound, from which teams will bounce back after subpar seasons last year to whether anyone will be able to dethrone the reigning MVP and Cy Young Award winners.

The games may not have counted. But the lessons sure did. For teams around the Majors, the past six weeks under the sun in Florida and Arizona delivered some important revelations that could impact them well beyond the start of the regular season. With the help of our beat reporters,

SARASOTA, Fla. – After No. 10 Red Sox prospect Anthony Eyanson lit up the night with a series of high-voltage offerings – including one that topped 100 mph – in Friday’s 3-1 Spring Breakout loss to the Orioles, he went back to the Ed Smith Stadium bullpen after the game