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Start every morning with The Pulse in your inbox. Sign up here. Good morning! The WBC slaps. Japan’s incredible walk-off win over Mexico last night might be the best baseball game we see for a long time. And it was only the semifinal of the World Baseball Classic, which wraps up tonight with Team USA vs. Japan. It’s time to make the WBC a bigger deal. The Pulse officially proposes moving the two-week tournament to MLB’s midseason. Some points: As we wrote yesterday, the current timing gets overshadowed by NCAA Tournament basketball, not to mention the NBA’s playoff race and...

The pitch timer is among them, though nothing is certain at this point.

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America," wrote French-American historian Jacques Barzun in 1954, "had better learn baseball." More than any other sport, America's national pastime reflects its national character.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Evan Drellich, a senior writer for The Athletic, who covered the Houston Astro's 2017 cheating scandal. His new book is called: Winning Fixes Everything.

A profile of Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas, looking at the power potential of catcher Diego Cartaya, more prospect rankings, and insight into new MLB rules.