Sitting next to his dad in a suite, Colin Hanks donned a generic black hat with an MLB logo on it—similar to one that umpires ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

The Milwaukee Brewers started off the season with a loss after a valiant comeback attempt in the 9th inning fell short ...

This year's "Baseball 101," our annual seminar on the game through one particular lens, looks at 101 things that are gone.

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In this data-driven era, with AI ripping the steering wheel out of our hands, who knows with any degree of certainty where ...

Opening Day for the Detroit Tigers is about hope, and joy, and about things being better than they were the year before. I’m ...

Most new players found the league by accident. They were just walking through Golden Gate Park when they saw something they ...

Left homeless by Hurricane Milton, the team is playing in the Yankees’ much smaller minor league ballpark this season, which ...

Most new players found the league by accident. They were just walking through Golden Gate Park when they saw something they ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...