Ronald Acuña Jr. is hitting .327/.424/.702, leading or tied for the lead in the Majors in runs and home runs, and so you immediately know he’s on another level, which is impressive enough in itself considering that he was already off to one of the most incredible career starts in...

The most unhittable pitch in baseball is back -- and maybe even more unhittable than it was before. We're talking about Shohei Ohtani's splitter. Remember how, in 2018, hitters went 2-for-55 against it, striking out 35 times? Well, you should see what's happening in 2021. In 20 plate appearances ending...

The Giants have the oldest lineup in baseball -- the average age of their hitters this season is over 31 years old -- so it's a good thing two of their veteran stars have found the fountain of youth. Buster Posey and Evan Longoria are hitting like years-younger versions of...

Among the many beautiful things about baseball that sets it apart from other sports, one of our favorites is just how different the physical ballfields are, and how much they impact the play of the sport within them. You know the specifics, surely. While football fields are always 100 yards...

Nine years to the day since he made his Major League debut, Bryce Harper might be more locked than he’s ever been at the plate. Over his first 93 plate appearances, the Phillies outfielder has hit .329/.452/.632 with six homers and a 200 OPS+ \-\- three points better than his...

You wouldn’t think, given all he’s accomplished in the Majors over the last decade, that there wouldn’t be much left that Mike Trout could do to surprise us. (Aside from actually winning a playoff game, which he somehow still hasn’t done, and which is the greatest evidence ever of how...

Remember how good Michael Kopech was supposed to be when he first came up? Well, he's that good now. Three seasons after Tommy John surgery derailed his MLB debut, the 24-year-old White Sox flamethrower is pitching up to his status as Chicago's No. 2 prospect and MLB's No. 34 overall....

Luis Robert loves to swing. That seems only natural. When you can crush a baseball like he does, how could you not want to get up there and hack? But when you hack, you have to connect, and when Robert was slumping through the latter part of his rookie season,...

You really can’t sleep on two-way star Shohei Ohtani. With attention turning to his start on the mound on Monday in Arlington, Ohtani provided the offensive spark the Halos needed to avoid a sweep in Houston on Sunday afternoon. After starter Dylan Bundy gave up a game-tying two-run homer to...

We now join the Joe Musgrove breakout, already in progress. It’s that last part -- already in progress \-\- that’s important here, because otherwise it’s a little too easy to lump Musgrove into the growing collection of ex-Pirates starters who blossomed upon leaving Pittsburgh, like Charlie Morton, Gerrit Cole, Tyler...