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The mighty Astros have lost their mojo, and they’re running out of time to get it back
In the last moments before it all blew up on them, the last moments when they were still recognizable as the mighty Houston Astros, and not the flailing, hapless, unrecognizable...
Jose Altuve and the Astros show why they could be a nightmare in the World Series
With 50 players across two rosters, 18 pressure-packed half-innings and 324 pitches thrown by a total of 14 different pitchers over four-plus hours of high-intensity baseball, Game 6 of the...
Braves are unrecognizable from last year’s team, and more dangerous than ever
The Atlanta Braves won a thrilling postseason game over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday because:
Even in MLB’s Year of the Slider, Matthew Boyd’s designer version cuts through
One gray day in April 2012, Oregon State's Matthew Boyd was playing catch with his pitching coach at the tail end of a rain delay when, out of some combination...
Cubs win Craig Kimbrel sweepstakes, reportedly agree to deal with closer
After more than seven months of on and (mostly off) negotiations, rampant rumors and lonely bullpen sessions far away from any big league stadium, seven-time all-star closer Craig Kimbrel appears...
Velocity is strangling baseball — and its grip keeps tightening
A flame-throwing relief pitcher enters a game -- mid-inning, runners on base, tie score -- sending the telecast to another commercial break, dialing back the tension in the stadium and...
Manny Machado-Padres already feels like a solid marriage
The world at large, the greater baseball community and the members of the 2019 San Diego Padres all found out at roughly the same time, and through the same means...
Bryce Harper is biggest story at Phillies camp, but he’s not a Phillie or in camp
On the night before the Philadelphia Phillies' first full-squad workout of spring training, as he was still batting around in his head what his message to the assembled players would...
“Our teams are trying”: Commissioner Rob Manfred says players share responsibility for MLB’s slow offseason
Even on a day when Commissioner Rob Manfred broke a bit of news -- spring training games will soon begin in Florida and Arizona with a 20-second pitch clock, as...
Rob Manfred says players share responsibility for MLB’s slow offseason: “Our teams are trying”
Even on a day when Commissioner Rob Manfred broke a bit of news - spring training games will soon begin in Florida and Arizona with a 20-second pitch clock, as...