After being officially promoted to the major leagues on Monday, Boston Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony is now the youngest player in the major leagues. Having just turned 21 years old, Young is barely older than Jackson Chourio,

Brewers reliever Abner Uribe was happy to welcome a new member of Milwaukee’s flamethrower club. With Uribe, closer Trevor Megill and now 23-year-old right-hander Jacob Misiorowski, who will be called up to make his Major League debut on Thursday,

Four Major League Baseball players were reinstated by the league on Thursday after serving year-long bans for gambling on baseball.

Laz Diaz has long been known as one of the worst umpires in Major League Baseball and that reputation only grew Tuesday after his brutal night behind home plate in the San Diego Padres' 11-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The meat of the 2025 MLB regular season is here and the sample sizes aren't all that small anymore. Contenders and pretenders are establishing themselves, and we're closer to the trade deadline than Opening Day.

A 13 th -round Red Sox draftee out of high school, Kilen leveled up at Louisville and then with the Vols, with whom he slugged 15 homers with a 1.112 OPS this season. Struck out just 27 times in 245 plate appearances, a solid K rate given the elite level of pitching in the SEC.

Yet to hear players tell it, there is still a sizable gap between the public’s perception of the profession and the lived experience of the players. As part of The Athletic’ s annual MLB Player Poll, our writers offered the participants a chance to correct the record: What is the biggest misconception about the lifestyle of a baseball player?

Major League Baseball will celebrate the league’s 12 active Japanese players through custom manholes that will feature one player in each design, to be installed at locations associated with that player’s roots in baseball,

MLB’s decision to walk away from ESPN’s $1.5B deal is now seen as a major mistake, with Rob Manfred expressing regret.