Corbin Burnes returns for the Brewers on Thursday hot on the pursuit of a record. He’s struck out 49 batters so far this season and has yet to issue a walk. That’s already a record for a starting pitcher to start a season since the mound was moved to its...

That’s more like it. Giancarlo Stanton is off to one of the best starts of his career and is finally playing like the Yankees envisioned when they traded for the reigning NL MVP in December 2017. Entering 2021, he’d hit .266 and slugged .507 in the first three seasons of...

With two swings separated by 12 pitches, the Padres unleashed an awful lot of pent-up offensive energy on Sunday afternoon in San Francisco. First, Giants starter Johnny Cueto hung a slider, and Jake Cronenworth pulverized it, sending it 445 feet to right field, where it landed among the kayaks. Later...

The Rangers announced the addition of Daren Willman to the front office Friday. Willman is joining the organization as the senior director of research and development and applications for baseball operations. Willman has worked on staff at Major League Baseball since 2016 as the director of research and development, where...

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...