Three weeks into spring training, the Athletics and Colorado Rockies have better Cactus League records than the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers. The Toronto Blue Jays, coming off a last-place finish, are ...

The Miami Marlins had a 2024 season they would like to forget. While struggling to get anything going in the National League East division, they used a record-breaking 70 players in total. The ...

Reading the official MLB player stats is like jumping down a rabbit hole. The further you dig into it, the more you realize that there are things you have no clue about. Baseball is indeed a game of ...

In 2025, Pete Crow-Armstrong was the first player in MLB history to homer on pitches more than 3.9 feet and less than .9 feet ...

Nick Kurtz tallied 19 bases to tie a MLB single-game record and became the first rookie and Athletics player to record a four ...

Part of being a baseball fan these days is having at least a passing familiarity with advanced statistics -- i.e., the metrics that go beyond the usual fare of RBI, batting average, ERA, fielding ...

Every baseball team needs a manager who can keep an entire clubhouse together through the inevitable ups and downs of a 162-game regular season. The best managers know how to piece together the most ...

THE ATHLETIC, IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THIS WEEK WITH ALEXA: “Alexa, how many no-hitters did Satchel Paige claim he pitched?” ALEXA: “Satchel Paige reported pitching around 2,500 games in his ...

Some of MLB's biggest and baddest records came tumbling down on Tuesday, not by way of the whims of today's all-action superstars, but by a series of ballplayers who weren't even allowed to grace its ...

Certain MLB numbers are etched in history. There are the classics: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak, Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 consecutive games played, Nolan Ryan's 5,714 career strikeouts, etc. Then ...

On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s threw a nine-inning no-hitter—and lost. Errors allowed Pete Rose to reach base and eventually score the game’s only run in the 9th inning.