The late Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver was a cantankerous, combative, brilliant baseball tactician and strategist who won a World Series and four American League pennants.

A look at all the news and notes from the world of fantasy baseball Friday night including Jack Leiter's great night.

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Major League Baseball said Wednesday that 617 of 1,182 challenges were successful in the 288 exhibition games using the ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...

MLB legend Alex Rodriguez talks about the Yankees having beards and what advice he has for Juan Soto before making a ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

So technically, the umpires and the robots are calling two completely different zones. They just overlap a great deal. IRA FLATOW: Is that right? DAVY ANDREWS: So the rule book zone, like I said, is ...