Pittsburgh Pirates

Who is the player that best encapsulates, explains, or defines his team's season as a whole? This week, we take a look at the league's MDPs.

Go deep inside the Cleveland pitching factory, where strikeout arms were manufactured with assembly-line efficiency.

Baseball in 2024 looks vastly different than it did two decades ago, and one clear root cause is behind it all. First in a five-part series.

The right trade could make a huge difference for the teams locked in a tight wild-card race. Let's look at deals that could make sense.

We are less than a month out from the MLB draft and more information is available on who teams are most interested in taking in Round 1.

Every team has a player who’s not getting nearly enough credit. For this week’s edition, we celebrate an unsung hero for each team.

Our panel of writers made a case for their favorites, discussing the good, the bad and the ugly of the complete MLB City Connect slate.

Some deals paid dividends last year, others fizzled out, and the lasting impact of many is still playing out.

With the benefit of a decade of hindsight, we re-draft the 2014 class and see Turner go off the board first. Who else would go in the first?

The biggest names being targeted by teams include Pete Alonso, Luis Robert Jr., Jesús Luzardo and Luis Severino. Here's where things stand.

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Someone get me a hot dog. In 2024, when the term “analytics” has become commonplace and the movie “Moneyball” is a classic, it’s funny when a player stops you dead with the eye test rather than a statistic. Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes, a 6-foot-6 100-mph hurler from my beloved alma mater, does just that.  Before we get into the stats, I want to start with moments:  The 22-year-old’s second start fully announced his presence.

The Cardinals' limited bench has cost them valuable games, and Tuesday was no exception.

I've been talking, texting and emailing with front-office executives, as well as others in the game, to gauge how the market is shaping up.

We have entered the thick of the season and the sample sizes are large enough that we can start asking some big questions about these teams.

Some think a shorter season would be a good idea, while other players don't see a problem with 162 games: "Anyone who complains is soft."