Somewhere along the Connecticut shoreline, a 77-year-old retired engineer lives in obscurity. A bevy of baseball’s brightest minds call him the godfather of modern pitching. Nearly three decades ago, ...

So you want to talk like a baseball person? Then you’ll have to curse a lot. At least, that’s how Pat Murphy, the Milwaukee Brewers’ manager, explained it to his boss’ young son. As long as you’re ...

Keith Meister, in the operating room of his private practice, draws a six-centimetre line on the elbow of a baseball pitcher. He slices the elbow open and stares into a mix of ligaments, tendons, and ...

The summer sport is facing big questions about how it will adapt. Baseball just saw its latest season come and go, with the L.A. Dodgers—who play in a city that already experiences extreme storms, ...

Kade Durnin knew right away that something was badly wrong. “It’s unlike any other feeling that you’ve probably ever had, in terms of arm pain,” the 19-year-old college pitcher says in an interview ...

Chicago Cubs starter Cody Poteet knew exactly what pitch he wanted to uncork to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy: a fastball down and away. But as the ball left his hand — in the first inning of ...

The average Major League Baseball team is worth $2.62 billion, according to CNBC's official MLB valuations. The New York Yankees, worth $8 billion, are MLB's most valuable team, according to CNBC's ...

The one constant through the years, James Earl Jones famously said as he stood in the middle of a cornfield, has been baseball. And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The ...