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A behind-the-scenes look at how the pitch timer works

HOUSTON -- The slugger went deep, then the console went beep. As Central Missouri infielder John Prudhom crossed home plate Saturday after hitting a towering two-run home run in the first inning of a game at the Houston Winter Invitational at Minute Maid Park, Billy Cannon pressed the button that → Read More

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All of your questions about the new rules, answered

The 2023 Major League Baseball season brings a wave of rules changes collectively aimed at improving the game’s pace of play and increasing action on the field. The arrival of the pitch timer, restrictions on defensive shifts and bigger bases makes for one of the more ambitious adaptations to the → Read More

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With Correa not going to Mets, the top 10 lineups for '23 are ...

If you thought the Carlos Correa saga was a whirlwind for him, his family, his agent and the teams and fans involved, have you stopped to consider me, Average Joe Sportswriter, trying to churn out premature and subjective lists of the best lineups in baseball? No, of course you haven’t. → Read More

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Predicting the major award winners for 2023

A new year is a new opportunity to be wrong. We’re wrong a lot in the baseball predictions game. If you knew, one year ago, that Justin Verlander would return from having pitched zero innings in 2021 to winning his third Cy Young in '22, or that Aaron Judge would → Read More

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Which division is best heading into 2023?

A lot of heavy lifting has happened across MLB the last couple weeks. That doesn’t mean we’re done with this Hot Stove season. Far from it. But it does mean we can begin to take a more defined look at the landscape and see where the intra-divisional intrigue lies. Let’s → Read More

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McGriff elected unanimously to Hall on Contemporary Era ballot

The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced the results tonight for the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee's voting, electing Fred McGriff to the Hall of Fame Class of 2023. Albert Belle, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Don Mattingly, McGriff, Dale Murphy, Rafael Palmeiro and Curt Schilling made up the Contemporary Baseball → Read More

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Here's what separates MLB's Draft lottery from the rest

Followers of the NBA or NHL are familiar with the concept of the Draft lottery that is about to debut in MLB. But baseball’s lottery includes anti-tanking measures that go beyond anything we’ve seen in the other major professional sports. MLB’s inaugural Draft lottery will be held at 8:30 p.m. → Read More

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Here's how the postseason pitching staffs rank

The postseason is all about the starters. Except when it’s about the bullpens. Except when it’s about the starters. Except when it’s … Well, you get the idea. The postseason is all about PITCHING, whatever the role, whatever the form. So how do the 12 October teams rank in terms → Read More

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Best postseason lineups? We've ranked 'em

Each year, at the start of the season, we attempt to rank the top lineups in MLB based entirely on conjecture and projection. It is a fun but ultimately fruitless endeavor, because none of the games have been played and predicting baseball is impossible. Now that the season is ending, → Read More

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22 bonkers stats from the ’22 season

You can put a number to just about anything in baseball. And sometimes those numbers are worthy of a spit-take. Here are 22 weird, wild numbers from the 2022 season. We can’t promise you we have included every bonkers stat from this season (baseball is pretty bonkers, after all). But → Read More

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Potential rule changes receive test run in Triple-A game

CHARLOTTE -- It was baseball as you know it… and yet not. To the untrained eye, Saturday night’s game between the Triple-A Charlotte Knights and visiting Syracuse Mets at Truist Field was the sport we know and love. The Knights were victorious, 4-3, on the might of three monster home → Read More

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Vin Scully, legendary broadcaster, dies at 94

In the apartment home of a Bronx silk salesman and his red-haired wife, the boy would lie beneath his family’s large, four-legged radio. A young Vin Scully had a pillow to rest his head and a glass of milk and plate of saltine crackers to satiate his stomach. His soul, → Read More

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If All-Star Game is tied after 9, we'll get another HR Derby

Typically the All-Star Game is preceded by a Home Run Derby a day earlier. But in the event of an All-Star tie after nine innings, another Home Run Derby will break out. Beginning with Tuesday night’s All-Star Game presented by MasterCard and continuing at least through the life of the → Read More

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How Larry Doby broke color barrier in American League

Larry Doby got what shut-eye he could as the bus carrying him and his Negro League teammates made its trek from Wilmington, Del., to Newark, N.J., in the early morning hours of Thursday, July 3, 1947. As Doby slept that night 75 years ago, he did not know about the newspaper report bearing his name. Did not know that his home would, in a matter of hours, be swarmed by inquiring reporters. Did… → Read More

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Everything you need to know about '22 season

MLB and the MLB Players Association reached agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement in time to save the 162-game season, albeit with a revised schedule. The deal includes quite a few changes to the structure of the sport, not the least of which is an expanded postseason. To clear → Read More

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MLB adds Negro Leagues to official records

Major League Baseball has long celebrated the legacy of the Negro Leagues. But for the first time, MLB is officially recognizing that the quality of the segregation-era circuits was comparable to its own product from that time period. → Read More

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'21 All-Star Game, Draft moved from Atlanta

Major League Baseball announced on Friday that it will relocate the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft, originally scheduled to take place in Atlanta, to a to-be-determined location. The decision comes a little more than a week after the passage of S.B. 202, a Georgia law that President Joe Biden → Read More

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Fearsome twosomes: MLB's top tandems

Baseball is more team sport than tandem sport. But the game has a rich history of dynamic duos. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell. Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker. Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell. So what are baseball’s best duos today? Let’s focus here on position → Read More

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The player who no longer exists in the Majors

Our story begins in that serene sanctuary where so many consequential decisions are made: The airport bar. It was September 1988, and the Pittsburgh Pirates were entering the final leg of a four-city road swing near season’s end. The Buccos were above .500 but far away from postseason contention. So → Read More

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The best division in baseball? Here's our list

The vast majority of this Hot Stove season’s biggest, boldest moves have come from non-division winners from 2020 who are taking their shot at the title. We’ve seen that from a Padres team that has acquired \[checks notes\] every starting pitcher, a White Sox team capitalizing on a freshly opened → Read More