The Cincinnati Reds have released more uniform numbers for players who could debut in 2026. Players who have been added to ...

One player, one election, an avalanche of controversy. That’s the beauty of baseball. The game–its players, its teams, its history–inspires so much passion, so much heated debate, so many fun ...

It was just last weekend that Miguel Cabrera reminded us of That Thing that has always separated baseball from every other sport in this world. In baseball, the magic isn’t merely in the moment. The ...

It’s been all over the sports news — an obsession, one might call it — for the past week: New York Yankee Aaron Judge’s quest to break Roger Maris’s American League record of home runs in a single ...

Joe Mauer broke the 2-to-8 scouting scale before I even had a chance to tell you how it works. In the spring of 1999, Mauer was years away from the perennial All-Star catcher he’d become for the ...

The furor over Game of Shadows, the forthcoming book detailing Barry Bonds’ alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, has thrust the issue of steroids in baseball back into the spotlight. Baseball ...

I learned a new number recently. I now know how many yards Dan Marino, the record holder, threw for in his NFL career. I'm told by football stat guys that it's an "awkward" number, but before the ...

Numbers. I love them, man. If you’ve ever read a word I’ve written, you might have caught onto that. Numbers can make you think. Numbers can make you laugh. Numbers can make you shake your head and ...

Lakeland, Fla. — Kirk Gibson remembers a time when sabermetrics weren’t sabermetrics. They were baseball wisdom, crafted not by algorithms, explained not by acronyms, but imparted by way of baseball ...

Over time, American society has experienced life altering change and innovation that can be described by using one word or a short phrase. For example, where would society be today without these ...