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MIAMI -- The delicate balance between going for the gold and getting ready for the regular season impacted Team USA’s pitching plans for the World Baseball Classic finals. And it will be fascinating to watch how manager Mark DeRosa and the Americans try to piece together the 27 outs that

MIAMI – The game met the hype. And the Americans met the moment. In a semifinals matchup rife with many of baseball’s biggest names and a game rife with the kind of tension that makes the sport great, Team USA outlasted the Dominican Republic, 2-1, on Sunday night at loanDepot

TAMPA, Fla. – Luis Gil’s 12th pitch sailed over the wall in left-center field, tagged by Spencer Torkelson for a three-run homer. The rest of his Grapefruit League start against the Tigers didn’t look – or sound – much better. Tagged for seven loud runs in the Yankees’ 12-1 Grapefruit

TAMPA, Fla. – It’s a known part of the Yankees' prospect culture: Just because you were scouted and signed by the organization does not mean you’ll play for the team in New York. For a team always trying to win, and willing to bring in whatever big leaguers necessary to

TAMPA, Fla. -- A few hours before a sold-out crowd watched Max Fried’s latest Opening Day tuneup in New York's 6-4 loss to the Phillies on Saturday afternoon at George M. Steinbrenner Field, many of those same fans piled into the bleachers on the other side of the Yankees’ complex

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If you had to choose a single word to describe Scott Burrows, you couldn’t do any better than “Australian.” Everything about the guy screams it, in a way that towers over any other attribute you see upon meeting him. He’s incredibly tall, but stature has nothing on his big, jovial

TAMPA, Fla. – There are fewer than two weeks remaining before the Yankees will assemble on the first-base line at Oracle Park in San Francisco, set to begin the 2026 Major League season on Opening Night against the Giants. Most of the roster calls seem decided at this stage –

HOUSTON – Team USA has definitely “punched its ticket” this time. And it’s a ticket to a real heavyweight bout. After a tumultuous couple of days emanating from a regrettable MLB Network interview segment for manager Mark DeRosa and a lamentable loss to upstart Italy, the American dream in this

NORTH PORT, Fla. -- You hear it constantly as teams evaluate players this time of year: Spring Training is far more about the process than on-field results. That, of course, applies to some players more than others -- but it's particularly true in the case of Randal Grichuk.

Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes set the bar high on the pitching side in 2025. Skubal became the first pitcher since Pedro Martinez to repeat as the American League Cy Young Award winner, while Skenes followed up an incredible rookie season with a National League Cy Young crown. While there

LAKELAND, Fla. – Seeing Justin Verlander wearing a Tigers uniform again feels a bit like time travel: a full-circle experience not just for a pitcher who has already secured his place among the best of his generation, but also for the fans who cheered him along the way. On Thursday,

LAKELAND, Fla. -- George Lombard Jr. continued to impress in his second big league camp, particularly on defense, where the Yankees’ top prospect contributed dazzling plays at three different infield spots. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has said the club believes Lombard -- baseball’s No. 32 overall prospect according to

A 2013 Aaron Judge baseball card recently sold for a record $5.2 million. That makes it the highest publicly known sale of a modern baseball card, and the seventh-highest publicly known sale across all sports cards. The card is a one-of-one Bowman Chrome Draft Pick Autographs Superfractor, and the final

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The first round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic provided a bevy of indelible moments and wall-to-wall thrills. We should expect more of the same once the quarterfinals begin on Friday.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Giancarlo Stanton says timing is everything for him throughout Spring Training, and his latest checkpoint was impossible to miss: two home runs traveling a combined projection of 826 feet, providing a good indication that his swing is right on schedule. Stanton launched a two-run shot off Eric

We got plenty of drama over the past two days of the World Baseball Classic -- and so much more than Team USA had bargained for, right? -- that didn’t involve Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, the two headliners of the whole thing.

TAMPA, Fla. – Since 2009, the Yankees have set aside one week each season to shine a spotlight on people whose perseverance and generosity might otherwise go unnoticed. What began as a long-shot idea scrawled on an office whiteboard has grown into one of the franchise’s most meaningful traditions: HOPE

Through the first two iterations of Spring Breakout, many young prospects have gone head-to-head before quickly establishing themselves as stars at the Major League level. Look no further than the first game, where Paul Skenes struck out Jackson Holliday in the first inning, weeks before they'd both make their big

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Spencer Jones acknowledged the news was something “you never want to hear,” but it hadn’t been unexpected. The Yankees’ outfield appears settled, with the big-swinging prospect set to begin another season in the Minors. More at-bats with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre are on deck. But Jones is aiming to

We are all about the future at MLB Pipeline. Obviously, any talk about prospects and who they might become involves some prognostication. Fresh off flexing those muscles to present every organization’s Top 30 prospects list, we’re keeping our crystal ball in active mode to provide a prospect prediction for each