Major League Baseball is set to have its earliest opening day next year on March 24 except for international games — if there is an opening day.
Orlando’s MLB push is back with fresh numbers, as the group behind the Dreamers asks Orange County to put some tourist-tax dollars toward a new stadium.
Major League Baseball is facing a potential work stoppage over management's proposed salary cap.
The Chicago White Sox selected UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky with the first pick of the MLB amateur draft.
The Chicago White Sox have the No. 1 overall pick of the MLB draft this weekend in Philadelphia.
Shohei Ohtani, Paul Skenes, and Jacob Misiorowski will miss All-Star Game mound appearances due to upcoming starts.
Major League Baseball proposed limiting most free agent contracts to five years and 15% of a team’s salary cap and to eliminate deferred compensation, fleshing out details of a salary cap plan likely to spark a confrontation with the players’ association that could lead to the first loss of regular-season games since 1995.
After his team got rained out two days in a row, Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell sounded a little miffed about the second one.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has formally issued subpoenas to Major League Baseball leaders as part of his inquiry into whether the league is engaging in religious discrimination.
Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major league teams, raising the age for international amateurs and slashing the money spent on signing bonuses in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement Thursday.
An Orlando attorney who specializes in the First Amendment cast doubt on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's chances of bringing a successful case against Major League Baseball.
News 6 Sports dropped by a youth baseball camp in Volusia County. Former minor league pitcher and major league scout Tad Powers is sharing his baseball expertise and experience with young players in New Smyrna Beach all this week.
Major League Baseball has warned players about writing on their uniforms after San Francisco starter Landen Roupp and two other pitchers added Bible verses to their Pride Night caps on Friday night.
The Sacramento region strives to be more than just a way station for the Athletics before they complete their move from Oakland to Las Vegas.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred worries the owners' salary cap proposal could lead to a work stoppage like the one that canceled the 1994 World Series.
Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players’ association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond.
A Dominican judge has ruled that Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco is criminally responsible for the sexual and psychological abuse of a minor but will not serve a sentence.
Detroit Tigers pitcher Framber Valdez was suspended for five games and fined, one day after he was ejected for hitting Boston’s Trevor Story with a pitch during a 10-2 loss in which he allowed a career-high 10 runs.
The San Diego Padres have reached an agreement to sell control of the team to an investor group led by Kwanza Jones and José E.
Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami tied a Major League Baseball rookie record by homering in his fifth straight game, crushing a 451-foot shot to right-center field against the Arizona Diamondbacks for his 10th homer of the season.
The Dodgers shattered Major League Baseball’s spending record with a combined $515 million in payroll and luxury tax last year en route to their second straight World Series title, according to final figures compiled by the commissioner’s office, and Los Angeles is projected for the highest total again in 2026.
The Minnesota Twins and Major League Baseball are investigating Jarren Duran’s allegation that a fan he pointed his middle finger at during a game had told the Boston Red Sox outfielder to kill himself.
Thanks to money and technology, the MLB and NCAA versions of baseball have never been more similar.
It could be argued that the Automated Ball-Strike system has been the MVP of Major League Baseball through the season’s first 2 1/2 weeks, creating a game-within-the-game that’s producing winners, losers and some dramatic moments.
Major League Baseball says the percentage of Black players on opening day rosters increased in consecutive years for the first time in at least two decades.
Major League Baseball’s average salary rose 3.4% on opening day to a record $5.34 million, according to a study by The Associated Press, and the New York Mets topped spending at the season’s start for the fourth straight year.
Every moment of any major sporting event can be dissected in high-definition these days, meaning officials and umpires sometimes seem to be staring at a TV screen to review close calls as much as they’re watching the game.
Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox and Chase DeLauter of the Cleveland Guardians have accomplished something in the last week that had been done only twice before.
Managers have less to argue about as Major League Baseball starts ball-and-strike challenges this season with so-called robot umpires.
Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising the games in perhaps the last season before a labor shutdown.
The Cleveland Guardians won’t have to pay indicted pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz while Major League Baseball’s investigation continues into allegations of pitch-rigging for gamblers.
Major League Baseball is entering an official partnership with Polymarket and has an agreement with the federal commission overseeing prediction markets to collaborate on integrity concerns.
A day of fun in the sun for a Major League Baseball spring training game in the Cactus League looks like it’s about to get toasty — even by Arizona standards.
The official report from MLB's replay review says a critical play in the Los Angeles Dodgers' wild Game 7 World Series win last year was determined by feet, not inches.
A person familiar with the process tells The Associated Press that Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas is contesting a possible 80-game suspension by Major League Baseball following an alleged failed test for a performance-enhancing substance.
The Athletics had the highest success rate using the robot-umpire system to overturn ball/strike calls during the first 10 days of spring training, winning 69.2% of challenges as teams prepared for its regular-season debut March 25.
The Atlanta Braves have announced BravesVision as their local television home, beginning with the 2026 season.
Just over half the ball/strike challenges were successful on the first day of spring training games as Major League Baseball prepared for the first regular-season use of the automated ball-strike system — the so-called robot umpires.
Prospects for a spring fraud trial for two Cleveland Guardians stars accused of colluding with sports bettors to rig bets are fading after they appeared in Brooklyn federal court as their teammates start their new season.
For those worried robots are about to take over Major League Baseball, Colorado Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer has some experience with the Automated Ball/Strike system that’s coming to stadiums this summer.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is optimistic that major leaguers will be able to participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Tony Vitello walked up the dugout stairs to meet with reporters about 15 minutes later than expected because of a team meeting that went longer than planned.
Francisco Lindor and Carlos Correa are not on Puerto Rico's roster for the World Baseball Classic due to insurance issues.
Major League Baseball will produce and distribute local broadcasts for six teams this season.
Major League Baseball's average salary increased by 1.4% last year, reaching a record $4.7 million, according to the players' association.
Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones appear on track to gain election to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
Free agent outfielder Max Kepler has been suspended for 80 games following a positive test for a banned performance-enhancing substance in violation of Major League Baseball’s drug program.
Sports were turned upside down 50 years ago Tuesday by a man who never threw or kicked a ball.
Infielder Kazuma Okamoto and pitcher Kona Takahashi are entering Major League Baseball’s posting system and will be available for teams to sign as free agents from Friday through Jan. 4.
Major League Baseball says it will comply with a Senate committee's request for documents on gambling investigations.
Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians players were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.
Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz has appeared in court on charges accusing him and teammate Emmanuel Clase of taking bribes to help associates in their native Dominican Republic win prop bets placed on pitches they threw.
Two pitchers with the Cleveland Guardians have been indicted on charges they took bribes to give sports bettors advance notice of their pitches and intentionally tossed balls instead of strikes to ensure successful bets.
The $500 million Los Angeles Dodgers’ thrilling World Series win over the Toronto Blue Jays attracted record international attention for Major League Baseball, affirmed LA’s status as the sport’s best team and drew more attention to baseball’s payroll disparity heading into what is likely to be contentious labor negotiations.
ESPN and Athletes Unlimited have announced a three-year rights extension that makes ESPN the official broadcast partner for the women’s professional sports company’s softball, basketball and volleyball leagues.
U.S. viewers for the first two games of the World Series between the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays dropped 14% from last year’s matchup between Los Angeles and the New York Yankees, but Canadian and Japanese audiences set records.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is increasingly confident big league players will participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The Los Angeles Dodgers topped the major leagues with 26 pitch clock violations this season.
Major League Baseball owners have unanimously approved the sale of the Tampa Bay Rays to a group led by real estate developer Patrick Zalupski.
Major League Baseball is instituting moratorium periods on when teams can evaluate draft prospects in an attempt to slow the number of young players getting injured.
Major League Baseball has canceled plans to play games in London next season due to scheduling conflicts with West Ham's Olympic Stadium and TV commitments.
Addressing recent reports that Rick Workman and John Morgan had pulled their investment promises from Orlando’s Major League Baseball aspirations, the Orlando Dreamers say they'll move ahead "in full stride."
Houston Astros outfielder Taylor Trammell is facing no discipline from Major League Baseball after umpires confiscated his two-color bat when New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone asked for it to be checked after he hit a double.
Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz had their paid leaves extended indefinitely as Major League Baseball continues an investigation to gauge their possible involvement in gambling during games.
Major League Baseball's hitters are starting to win a few more battles against their hard-throwing pitcher counterparts.
Hundreds of women will flock to Washington on Friday to take their first swings at turning pro baseball dreams into reality.
The agency that oversees sports gambling in Ohio says it is working with Major League Baseball on the investigation of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, but had no further comment.
The Minnesota Twins are no longer for sale after a 10-month exploratory process, according to executive chair Joe Pohlad.
Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves.
A record crowd for a regular-season Major League Baseball game got to see all the pomp and pageantry with the MLB Speedway Classic before the rain washed out the game itself in the bottom of the first inning.
