TORONTO -- Moments before first pitch between the only team he’s ever known and the team he grew up cheering for, Joey Votto announced he is retiring from baseball. Votto has spent the past six months trying to make it back to the big leagues one more time with the

NEW YORK – The "Juan Soto and Aaron Judge Show" is once again a nightly event. For the second consecutive game, the Yankees superstars connected for home runs, helping to boost their club to an early lead over the Guardians at Yankee Stadium. Soto and Judge have now homered in

Making the playoffs can change the way the entire baseball world sees you, in essentially every possible way. Ask the 2023 D-backs, after all: They went from a team with a negative run differential that most people assumed would be marched out of the playoffs to a feisty NL pennant

The primary job of a leadoff hitter is to get on base so his teammates can drive him in. Of course, the batter atop a lineup also simply can start things off by driving himself in, too. After all, there’s no better way for an offense to open a game

As we head toward the stretch run of the 2024 season, clubs around the Majors are surely beginning to formulate their plans for the upcoming offseason. While last year’s Hot Stove was dominated by a pair of players who wound up together in Los Angeles – Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu

NEW YORK – It’s Wednesday afternoon. Same scenario as Monday night. Orioles right-hander Seranthony Domínguez was on the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning with the game tied at 3. This time it wasn’t Francisco Alvarez hitting the game-winning homer, though. It was Jesse Winker in an emphatic

HOUSTON -- As things stand, the Red Sox remain on the outside looking in when it comes to the 2024 American League postseason field. But after Wednesday’s 4-1 victory over the Astros secured a winning seven-game road trip against two first-place teams in Baltimore and Houston, the Red Sox (67-59)

Daisuke Matsuzaka carving up batters en route to back-to-back MVP Awards; Nelson Cruz’s triumphant blast; Adam Jones’ leaping home run robbery; Javier Báez’s no-look tag; and Shohei Ohtani vs. Mike Trout with the championship on the line -- these are just some of the World Baseball Classic’s indelible moments that

August around MLB Pipeline is all about reranks. With a new Top 100 Prospects list and updated Top 30s for each team, there's plenty to dissect and mull over. For instance: What if you could build a Top 30 Prospects list using all 30 farm systems?

NEW YORK – Comedian Eitan Levine was living the dream on Wednesday afternoon before his favorite team, the Mets, faced the Orioles at Citi Field and won, 4-3, in exciting walk-off fashion. There he was on the mound, throwing the ceremonial pitch to Mets outfielder Tyrone Taylor. But it wasn’t

My name is Joey, uh, Joey Votto, 6-2, Richview Collegiate High School in Toronto, Canada, third base. That’s how Joey Votto introduced himself in the opening seconds of a video featuring the future Reds superstar first baseman for a Draft showcase event at Fort Myers, Fla., in 2001. Votto was

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NEW YORK – Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor put himself in the record books during New York's 4-3 walk-off victory on Wednesday afternoon. By hitting his 25th home run of the season, Lindor became the first shortstop in Major League history to hit 25 home runs and steal 25 bases in

NEW YORK -- The Yankees expect Luis Gil to return from his stint on the injured list as a starting pitcher, though they can also envision a scenario where the rookie right-hander is a force out of the bullpen leading into the postseason. It is a positive sign that such

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MLB Pipeline updated its various prospect rankings last week, and that’s given us numerous ways to slice and dice the new editions. We recapped the new Top 100. We gave overviews on the new Top 30s for every organization. We ranked the game’s farm systems from 1-30. We broke down

ARLINGTON -- Acceptance has appeared to be the theme of the Rangers’ homestand. The reigning World Series champs have stumbled through most of the 2024 season, but they remained in the thick of the American League West race through the Trade Deadline, when the club mostly stood pat. Things quickly

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. -- Fourteen years ago, they were playing on a small stretch of concrete in Bhutan, the small, mountainous country to the south of Tibet otherwise known as "The Last Shangri-La." This week, they were playing on the finely groomed turf at Heritage Financial Park, home of the

In just over a month, approximately 200 of MLB's top prospects will head to the Arizona Fall League to continue their development and add to their innings totals for 2024. While there are plenty of Minor League games – and eye-catching prospect moments – that will take place between now

SAN FRANCISCO -- Korey Lee made a big impact in his return to the Bay Area. The White Sox catcher broke open a tie game in the ninth with a two-out, two-run single as Chicago’s four-run rally produced a 6-2 win over the Giants to cap the road trip on

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Since 2006, baseball players have convened from all over the world for a tournament like no other: the World Baseball Classic, which returned for its fifth iteration in 2023. As we anxiously await the 2026 Classic, here is a brief history of each of the first five World Baseball Classics:

The 2023 World Baseball Classic is over. And it delivered the most epic moment in the tournament's 17-year history. The championship game was decided in a showdown between Shohei Ohtani on the mound and Mike Trout at the plate. You couldn't have scripted it any better. There have been tons