It’s not that MLB owners can’t afford to pay their minor leaguers a living wage. No, it’s just that they don’t want to.

The team that’s closer to winning tends to get more favorable ball and strike calls when the game goes into extras.

Less than two weeks after Opening Day, my Ringer MLB Show cohost Michael Baumann and I bypassed a wealth of potential podcast topics to do a segment about blisters. Dodgers starter Rich Hill, who’d signed a three-year, $48 million deal to stay in Los Angeles in December, had suffered a recurrence of his stubborn blister problems from 2016, leaving his value to the team in doubt. His chronic case of blisters seemed so serious that speaking to just one dermatologist on the podcast wouldn’t do, so Michael and I talked to two dermatologists about treatments Hill could try.

When used for good, social media can be a very powerful tool for helping others. Recently, a woman named Jenn Slater posted on Facebook about her daughter, Cassidy, and her issues with being bullied at her middle school. It's tough to watch, but important just the same. Cassidy and her mom live in Scranton, Pa., near the home of the Yankees' Triple-A affiliate Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders. Cassidy's mother's post has gained steam since it was shared two weeks ago, racking up a few hundred thousand views ... and, apparently, catching the attention of the Yankees themselves.

A pair of neuroscientists are working with Major League Baseball to help measure the mental aspects of a batter’s swing.

Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day on Sunday, the 71st anniversary of when he broke the sport's color barrier.

Shohei Ohtani is ready for more. Ohtani has pitched twice and been the designated hitter five times in the Angels’ first 13 games. After Wednesday’s game, Ohtani said he understands the team’s caution with him, but he’s hoping to push the envelope. “I talk to the medical staff every day and they see how I’m doing, my strength level, to see if I can play that day,” Ohtani said through his interpreter. “It’s the beginning of the season so I think they are being pretty careful with me right now.

Are they a good thing? Yes. We should be happy that grace is still considered a goal of fair play.

When 99.9 percent of fans catch a ball at the ballpark, they celebrate as if they just won the lottery. And they should: Given how many people are in the stands, how few balls even come near the section you're sitting in and how hard it is to corral said ball, it is a kind of lottery.

America's national pastime is the most popular sport in Japan, but it's also more than that.

NEW YORK—After years of complaints from players and fans over the outmoded mandate, the New York Yankees announced Wednesday they would eliminate the organization’s longstanding “no pubic hair” policy. “Effective this season, we are removing most of the restrictions on members of the New York Yankees growing their pubic hair,” said co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner, who admitted that while the rule had been an important part of Yankee culture since the 1960s...

Jose Reyes, a Mets infielder, arrived in the major leagues at age 19, smirking at older players like John Franco, the timeless relief pitcher who, at age 42, was still at it. Reyes is 34 now and one of the “seniors” in the clubhouse, to the delight of Franco, who, timeless as he is, still contributes as a guest instructor. “Remember when you first came up and called me Grandpa?” Franco said to Reyes when the team was still here for spring training. “Now, you’re the grandpa. Where’s your cane?”

Brookings Metro Rubenstein Fellow Jenny Scheutz and Cecile Murray examine how the geography of major league baseballs teams has been mirrored in the demographic and social trends of the US since 1950

At 13, Kay Johnston pretended to be a boy and played first base for a Little League team in upstate New York. That was in the 1950s.Kay Johnston Massar, 81, sat down with her husband, Cy Massar, 84, at StoryCorps to tell him about the time she, quite literally, changed the rules of the game.

Nicknamed Le Grand Orange while playing for Montreal — he was 6-foot-2 and had curly red hair — Staub made six All-Star teams in his 23-year major league career.

The 2018 Major League Baseball season opened on March 29 with a full slate of games scheduled across the country, plus one in Canada.

An ex-Marine officer offers you the chance to commission one-of-a-kind art that is so good that major leaguers ask to keep it.

If you love stadium food, then Major League Baseball has created just the event for you: The inaugural MLB Food Fest is happening April 21 and April 22 in New York City and will showcase the best food from all 30 MLB stadiums. So, yes, all those crazy food items that teams are trotting out these days and causing you to drool on your phone — they’ll all be taste-tested under one room. We’re talking the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Churro Dog...

Did you know that warm weather makes for better baseball? A ball’s trajectory is affected by other conditions, too, including humidity, altitude, and wind speed.

Major League Baseball has spent a lot of time wondering about how to court and keep young fans and how to get more families to the ballpark. While I’m sure they have retained all manner of marketing and demographic experts to look into all of that, the most obvious problem is that baseball tickets have become monstrously expensive over the years, even after adjusting for inflation. If you can’t watch games for free at home...