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Apparently someone at MLB headquarters turned the stove on and accidentally left it going. On Sunday, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that the Texas Rangers and New…

At this juncture of the baseball offseason, trade rumors are broadly wishful fantasies for Yankees fans. I know this because yesterday, Barry Petchesky dropped a tweet…

The comfort of rooting for a baseball team like the New York Yankees or Philadelphia Phillies is that even when they putter out of the playoffs…

Insofar as there is any small thing in baseball, one pitch is as discrete as it can get. If you are a good pitcher—at one point,…

Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were placed on administrative leave in July while MLB investigated them for potentially violating the league’s gambling policies.…

The Los Angeles Dodgers had a parade Monday to celebrate their second straight World Series victory. The Colorado Rockies, working the other end of the baseball…

Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a shop…

This World Series ended the only way it could, which was frenzied and late. The clocks turned back just a few hours after that; the next…

Eleven years ago, when I was a college sophomore in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I made an impromptu drive to Detroit with four friends for the express…

Baseball makes you feel bad. I don’t mean that in a literate sense ripping off Bart Giamatti’s lede, the sense of dreading a sullen winter spent…