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Joe Mauer is trending in the right direction to be a first-ballot Baseball Hall of Famer. One of the biggest reasons he is on that track is because his case fits both new- and old-school voting styles.

For half a century, longtime Lawrence resident Bill James has been asking questions about baseball. He’s still looking for answers.

The Toronto Blue Jays have had their share of star players over the years. Creating the best all-time Blue Jays lineup by WAR.

MLB’s self-styled “model franchise” is in the cellar of the league’s worst division.

Despite being the underdog before Spring Training for the Yankees open shortstop competition, Anthony Volpe won the job by impressing the Yankees on and off the field. Here's how Volpe's call-up affects the other Yankee middle infielders.

The Royals may be in the market for a third catcher.

The Yankees slugger had a top 20 season all-time, and a top 10 year in Yankees’ history.

Judge is currently sitting on 60 home runs, just one short of the American League record of 61, set in 1961 by another Yankees slugger, Roger Maris.

Cubs who led NL in offensive categories By JohnW53 on May 9, 2021, 5:52am CDT + 45 different offensive categories. A Cub has led or tied for the National League lead in at least 1 category in 101 of Hack Wilson led in 17 in 1930; Heinie Zimmerman (1912) and Rogers Hornsby (1929), in 16; Derrek Lee (2005), in 14; and Billy Williams (1972) in 13. At the other extreme, Walt "Moose" Moryn and Lee Walls led the NL only once each while with the Cubs -- tying for most times hit by pitch...

Baseball is in long-term decline by nearly any metric someone might pick. World Series TV ratings have dropped slowly and steadily since the 1980s. Attendance had been on a downslope for about a decade before the pandemic made attendance a useless metric to sort out fan engagement. Most damningly, and over a longer term, the rate of Americans identifying baseball as their favorite sport was 39 percent in 1948 and had fallen to 9 percent by 2017. The sports world’s take-industrial complex ensu...