Baseball has always been a simple game. You throw the ball hard. You hit the ball hard. And sometimes, the ball is hit with such force that you can’t help but ask yourself, “Just how hard was that thing hit?!” Thanks to Statcast, we now know the exit velocity of...

The Nolan Gorman breakout, Part 2, is here, and he has his decision-making in the box to thank for it. Gorman is a smarter hitter today than he was a year ago. The Cardinals' 23-year-old slugger is making the same elite contact he was when he first got called up...

In 2021, the 102-loss Texas Rangers scored just 625 runs, the third-fewest in the Majors. (It was also the team’s fifth-lowest full-season mark in the decades since the Rangers arrived in Texas in 1972. It wasn't a great season.) In 2022, it was somewhat better if still not great, with...

Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (May 18-24). For 300: Freddie Freeman hit a grand slam last Thursday for his 300th career home run, becoming the second player with a grand slam for his 300th home run. He joined Rubén Sierra on...

Jhoan Duran just popped the first 104 of the season on the radar gun. The flame-throwing reliever threw three pitches 104 mph or faster in the Twins' 7-1 win over the Giants on Wednesday afternoon -- including a high of 104.6 mph and a game-ending strikeout of Casey Schmitt at...

Bryce Miller's fastball is coming. It's coming right down Broadway. And you still can't hit it. Forget keeping hitters off-balance. Miller has overpowered nearly every batter he's faced in his first four big league outings. The Mariners' 24-year-old rookie right-hander has allowed only 13 baserunners in 25 1/3 innings, tied...

The last time Juan Soto played at Nationals Park, he was less than two weeks removed from being a member of the home dugout. After an Aug. 2, 2022, trade sent Soto from the Nationals to the Padres, San Diego played a three-game set in D.C. from Aug. 12-14. By...

When Adley Rutschman made his much anticipated MLB debut on May 21, 2022, the Orioles were on pace for their sixth straight losing season, but the young catcher's arrival sparked a baseball renaissance in Baltimore. And now, as he moves past the one-year mark since his callup, he's helped turn...

Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (May 11-17)....

If it seems like each season there’s an absolutely out-of-nowhere reliever who pops up to dominate, there almost always is. But even that realization won't prepare you for how far off the radar this year's entry was, because he A) had an 11.50 career ERA entering the season; B) didn’t...