This insane strikeout will leave you staring in disbelief -- just like the hitter
In the end, Heliot Ramos was just like the rest of us -- staring in disbelief at Nolan McLean's insane stuff.
The Mets right-hander was unhittable for much of Friday’s start against the Giants at Oracle Park, taking a perfect game into the sixth inning, but his final strikeout of...
Nolan McLean
10 nasty new pitches worth watching this year
Spring Training is always a testing ground for new pitches. It seems like every pitcher is trying something new with their arsenal.
The regular season is another story. New pitch experiments from the spring evaporate as quickly as they came -- see Garrett Crochet and his new splitter, for example,...
Logan Gilbert
Dylan Cease
Cam Schlittler
Cristopher Sanchez
Jack Leiter
Jhoan Duran
Joe Boyle
Paul Skenes
Roki Sasaki
Jacob deGrom
1 year after Raleigh's 60 HRs, are we about to see ANOTHER historic catching season?
Spring Training stats are often meaningless. But when a hitter goes yard seven times during the spring and then swats five homers in the first six games of the regular season, it carries some extra weight.
And when such a strong start also comes on the heels of a huge...
Shea Langeliers
Are players challenging enough ABS calls? It's a work in progress
The first official challenge of the ABS era came from a Yankees batter on Opening Night, when José Caballero challenged a Logan Webb called strike in the fourth inning. He was wrong, but it also shouldn’t have been Caballero who ended up being the answer to the trivia question.
It...
These two balls looked like sure home runs ... but then they weren't
Ian Happ hit a notably loud home run on Opening Day in Chicago. Kind of. So did Yordan Alvarez in Houston. Also, kind of.
It doesn’t say that in the box score, because Happ went 1-for-5 (a single) with three strikeouts, as the Cubs fell to Washington 10-4, while Alvarez...
Ian Happ
Yordan Alvarez
The 10 biggest storylines for MLB's first game with ball-strike challenges
Opening Night is finally here, and that means the start of the ABS era is here, too.
When the Yankees and Giants open the 2026 regular season on Wednesday night at Oracle Park (8 p.m. ET, Netflix), MLB hitters, pitchers and catchers will be able to challenge ball and strike...
How Spring Training ABS results compare to Triple-A from '25
The first official full Spring Training with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile is just about in the books, and we’re mere days away from it happening for the first time for real – presumably at some point early in Wednesday night’s Yankees-Giants 2026 lidlifter (8 ET...
The 2026 Spring Training stat lines that actually matter
There are always plenty of Spring Training stat lines that don't matter. There's probably no one worried that Tarik Skubal has an ERA close to 4.00 this spring, or that Shohei Ohtani is barely batting over .200.
But can we figure out the ones that do matter? Let's take a...
Drake Baldwin
Wyatt Langford
Chase DeLauter
Addison Barger
Samuel Basallo
Jac Caglianone
Matt McLain
Cristopher Sanchez
Cam Schlittler
Kodai Senga
Shane McClanahan
Mason Montgomery
Mick Abel
Cody Ponce
What's the trickiest -- and easiest -- outfield to play? Let's rate each ballpark
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about baseball, the thing that truly sets it apart from every other major team sport, is that every ballpark is different. Interesting. Unique.
Other than some standard minimums laid out in the rulebook, it’s fair game. You can have a 37-foot wall in left field...
Kevin Pillar
Pete Crow-Armstrong
You know about Skubal, but another AL Central lefty is a Cy candidate, too
Can you call it “a breakout” if the player in question already finished fourth in the AL Cy Young Award voting just two seasons ago? No, probably not.
Can you call it “a comeback” if every advanced metric said that the same pitcher, last season, was then even better –...
Cole Ragans
