That baseball is in serious need of change isn’t really in dispute. Even the most rabid fans grumble that the game is stagnant and one dimensional, sorely missing the strategies and nuances that in days…

Capsules of American League Central teams, listed in order of finish last year: Minnesota Twins 2020: 36-24, first place, lost to Astros in first round of playoffs. Manager: Rocco Baldelli (third season). He’s Here: SS…

Joe Maddon loves a good hit-and-run play, a timely stolen base, a well-executed sacrifice bunt, a choke-up-on-the-bat, two-strike bloop hit to shallow right field. The Angels manager may have gained notoriety for his new-age motivational…

The 2021 Royals stand as tangible proof that the bosses have been serious. Owner John Sherman has spent the last 11 months telling everyone who works for him to make sure the Royals come out…

BOSTON (AP) — The Red Sox sent Andrew Benintendi to the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday in a three-team trade that also included the New York Mets, parting with the final member of the outfield…

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will proceed with an on-time start to spring training and the season after players rejected a plan Monday night to delay reporting by a more than a month.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Los Angeles Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway, former manager of the New York Mets, “aggressively pursued” several women who work in sports media and sent three of them inappropriate photos, The…

NEW YORK (AP) — The baseball Hall of Fame won’t have any new players in the class of 2021 after voters decided no one had the merits — on the field or off — for…

Two months ago, Blake Snell got yanked off the mound with a two-hit shutout going in the final game of the World Series. Now, the Tampa Bay Rays are ready to ship him out of…

Minor league baseball hasn’t been able to take the field in more than a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. When it finally returns, it will look a whole lot leaner. That’s not an encouraging…