On Friday night, the San Diego Padres scored a run. Hold on, there's more news. They scored a run even though they didn't put a ball in play. Wait, not finished. They scored a run even though all...

In the wake of two distinctly embarrassing errors by the umpires last week, Joel Sherman's looking for some accountability, and he's got just two suggestions for Major League Baseball: 1....

Bryce Harper is a baseball fixture, a thing we're used to by now. He's the young, brash, productive outfielder on the Washington Nationals. I'm not going to suggest we're taking him for granted,...

Welcome back to our weekly review of the news and notes that you might have missed over a long baseball weekend. I watched 12 hours of baseball this weekend, nine of which were played by the same...

Yesterday I was browsing through one of Portland's many ridiculously Portlandish shops, and was pleasantly surprised to find this new book: You know, for the kids! Something like this would...

The Cubs are expected to announce they've signed first baseman Anthony Rizzo to a guaranteed seven-year contract that might wind up paying him more than $68 million over nine seasons.

Where would the Mariners be if their top prospects from just a couple of years ago had panned out like everybody expected? For one thing, GM Jack Zduriencik's job security probably wouldn't be a hot topic in Seattle.

Peter Gammons thinks that Hernandez just doesn't like instant replay. Is this plausible at all?

It's been a long time since we've seen a U.S.-born black catcher. In a related note, today's bloated bullpens are limiting the chances for African-American baseball players.

The success of Carlos Gomez has consequences that you won't notice for a while.