Professional baseball players are, by nature, a confident bunch. Belief in their own ability is a key component to reaching the Majors, an accomplishment few baseball players will realize during the course of their careers. Winning games once you’re there? That can be another story all together.

It’s all connected. The past to the present and the people to the places, with baseball serving as a bridge. Eight clubs unveiled a new wave of City Connect uniforms for 2026 on Thursday, and the bold new looks for the Braves, Orioles, Reds, Royals, Brewers, Pirates, Padres and Rangers

The 2026 season is still only a few weeks old, but plenty of players have stood out in the early going. In many cases, high-level performances are expected -- nobody is surprised that players like Shohei Ohtani, Yordan Alvarez, Corbin Carroll, Cristopher Sánchez and Bryan Woo have excelled to begin

NEW YORK – When a pitcher carries a no-hitter late into a game, there comes a point when he starts to piece together what is happening in real time. Not only did Athletics starter Jeffrey Springs not know he had held the Yankees hitless through the first six innings of

SAN DIEGO -- Mason Miller’s dominance gets more absurd with every outing.

NEW YORK -- Nolan McLean was dealing for the Mets. The right-hander was spinning his breaking ball at an elite level and pumping his fastball, keeping the Diamondbacks' hitters off balance through six innings. But Eduardo Rodriguez was not going to yield. On a cold Thursday night at Citi Field,

“Tearing the cover off the baseball” is a phrase typically used for hitters who are locked in at the plate, and with a .311 batting average as a rookie in 2025, Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson would certainly qualify. After an unusual play in the A's 1-0 win on Thursday at

Major League Baseball has the highest amount of international cultural diversity of any major U.S. sports league. But the declines in recent decades of Black players in the big leagues prompted MLB -- the league in which Jackie Robinson challenged American segregation 79 years ago this month -- to invest

MINNEAPOLIS -- Tigers center fielder Parker Meadows was removed from Thursday’s 3-1 loss to the Twins after taking contact to the face and head in an ugly collision with left fielder Riley Greene. Meadows and Greene were running down an eighth-inning line drive from Twins slugger Josh Bell, who already

Some familiar tensions arose in Wednesday's rematch of last year's World Series at Rogers Centre, as the Blue Jays again had questions about pitch warm-up time granted to Dodgers starter Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani, who ended the top of the first inning of Toronto's eventual 4-3 win on base after drawing

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.

Can you feel it? We've hit that sweet-spot time of year. Spring has officially greeted us with those 'leave the jacket in the closet' temps, the Majors and the full-season Minor League levels are in full swing, and college baseball teams are gearing up for that final sprint to Omaha.

Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (April 3-9). The Jo Show: Jo Adell had a defensive game unlike any other on Saturday, making three catches that took away home runs. That alone is incredible -- even without stats -- but consider this:

A straight steal of home is one of the most exciting plays you'll see in baseball. A baserunner risking it all for a chance to score a surprise run. Catch it once in a season from your favorite team and you might count yourself lucky. Twice in one game? Now

If you told a Cardinals fan in 2023 that, within about three years, Jordan Walker would look like one of the most impactful power hitters in the Major Leagues, that person would probably smile and nod and say that all sounds about right. If you told a Cardinals fan the

KANSAS CITY -- The streak is over. No, this is not a recreation of "All My Children's" Susan Lucci winning an Outstanding Lead Actress Award in the 1999 Daytime Emmys after the icon lost 18 straight nominations. It’s about the White Sox claiming victory at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday night

NEW YORK -- Early in his outing against the Diamondbacks on Thursday, Nolan McLean dropped a curveball into the strike zone at 3,451 revolutions per minute, breaking his own record for highest spin rate of any breaking ball this season. Later in the game, McLean froze Ketel Marte on another

SAN DIEGO -- Slam Diego is back. In style.

MIAMI -- Reds center fielder Dane Myers got a head start for the highlight of the day on Thursday afternoon. It was a quick start to what would be a busy day for Myers in an 8-1 loss to the Marlins at loanDepot park.

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MIAMI -- The World Baseball Classic might’ve ended three weeks ago, but Venezuelan flags still flank Javier Sanoja’s locker inside the Marlins’ clubhouse at loanDepot park. Sanoja, whose clutch steal and decisive run helped his Venezuelan ballclub to an upset victory over the United States in the final, has been

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