When is a third baseman not a third baseman anymore? How far does he have to go to become something else? Across the diamond? Into the outfield? What are you when you're fielding a ground ball on the left side of the infield one play and making a catch in...

After losing to the Braves on Aug. 5, the Cardinals were eight games out in the race for the second National League Wild Card spot and had just a 1.5% chance of reaching the postseason, according to FanGraphs’ playoff odds. Six weeks later, St. Louis’ odds are up to 41.5%...

Every year around this time, it’s easy (and fun) to look at the second-half leaderboards to find which hitters are performing surprisingly well -- "surprising" either because of lackluster previous track records or no track record at all -- and wonder if you’re seeing something real, something to build on...

For much of this season, the presumption has been that the AL Cy Young Award would be Gerrit Cole's to lose. But what if it's actually now Robbie Ray's to win As the $324 million arm pitching as well as ever for the team he rooted for growing up, Cole...

ATLANTA -- Jesús Sánchez had been scuffling entering the series in Atlanta, but he exited it flexing his immense power potential. The rookie right fielder homered in all three games this series and capped it off in the second inning of Sunday’s 5-3 loss to the Braves at Truist Park...

Every season offers an opportunity for improvement. This season perhaps has offered greater opportunity than most, coming on the heels of a shortened 2020 campaign that was anything but typical. Many players have taken advantage. Using Baseball Savant’s year-to-year changes leaderboard, here are 11 players -- seven hitters and four...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Andrew Benintendi doesn’t really know why he has so much success at Target Field, but neither he nor the Royals are complaining about it. The Royals’ outfielder slugged two homers among his four hits, including the game-winning blast, and drove in five runs in Kansas City’s 6-4 win...

MINNEAPOLIS -- There’s a plaque on the wall in the Delta Sky360 Suite that occupies the limestone overhang above the center-field batter’s eye at Target Field, because so few baseballs land on that level that any such homer is noteworthy enough to be memorialized there. As of Friday morning, there...

SAN DIEGO -- Fernando Tatis Jr. has racked up plenty of assists in his career, but none quite as exciting as this one. The Padres superstar has been waiting to show off his cannon since his transition from shortstop to the outfield last month, and he finally got his chance...

The following two statements about Milwaukee ace Corbin Burnes are each true. • He is having one of the most dominant pitching seasons on a per-inning basis in the last century of baseball, and: • He is very unlikely to win the National League Cy Young award. If those two...