Tanner Scott gave up a leadoff single in the ninth inning and still managed to become the fifth pitcher since 1988 to get a ...

This year's "Baseball 101," our annual seminar on the game through one particular lens, looks at 101 things that are gone.

MLB regular season begins for 26 teams on Thursday, with the Colorado Rockies and Tampa Bay Rays opening their campaigns on ...

Cubs' top prospect Cam Smith is set to make his MLB debut this season, while the White Sox are off to a respectable start ...

It is very hard to rank a reliever on a list like this, but Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer ... Had Suzuki not played in Japan from 1992 to 2000, there is no telling how high he could ...

Entering 2025, he still has more saves in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball ... Jackson isn’t Devin Williams or Mariano Rivera or anything, but his slider—his primary pitch—was a ...

Best pitcher: Mariano Rivera. You have to be pretty special ... Toughest omission: Masahiro Tanaka. The Japanese right-hander produced better numbers than Pettitte, but it was too difficult ...

Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-old in 2001 and ... Falling just short of the unanimous vote, Mariano Rivera remains the only player to be unanimously selected for ...

Like Matsui, Japan's equivalent of Barry Bonds on the ... He had a talk with Mariano Rivera, and former Cuban teammate Adrian Hernandez left his telephone number in Contreras' locker.