Kevin Smith, and he can’t stress this part enough, is not a scientist. But Aaron “Lenny” Leanhardt, the MIT-educated physicist who left academia for a behind-the-scenes career in baseball certainly is one.

As Strahm alluded to, some recent MLB rule changes may have negatively impacted pitchers. The pitch clock, first introduced for the 2023 season, has been claimed to cause additional wear on pitchers' arms. The league and its players' association debated the issue but have not come to a conclusion either way.

There's a consensus, statistically and anecdotally, that Chapman is very good at baseball relative to his peers.

To swing for the fences, you need a bat, but to sharpen your swing, you need a pro. On Monday, one Phoenix high school baseball team got both.

Once one of the most promising prospects in baseball, Rivera was placed on unconditional release waivers by the New York Yankees after being accused of taking a bat and glove from teammate Derek ...

That’s just trying to be the best we can be,” manager Aaron Boone said Sunday. “We’re trying to win on the margins and that shows up in so many different ways.”

Baldwin got a good swing in the fifth inning. He took a Yuki Matsui pitch deep to center field, but it was reeled in by center fielder Jackson Merrill. Baldwin hit the ball 395 feet to the deepest part of San Diego’s Petco Park. Baldwin’s swing would have been a home run in Fenway Park in Boston.

But they were 53-55 in the worst division in Major League Baseball. President of Baseball ... 275 with four home runs and 15 RBI in 40 at-bats over 15 games. He scored 11 runs.

Reds' superstar Elly De La Cruz became the latest MLB player to smash a home run with a torpedo bat, but what is it? And are the bats legal?