Somewhere in the middle of Iowa, sometime near the end of June, Kyle Schwarber remembered that he was a hitter before he was anything else, and stopped trying to hit quite so many home runs. In the ...
In recent years, the Philadelphia Phillies have done a great job of building a reliable core. After not having a record above .500 for nine straight seasons, their rebuild has helped them reach ...
WASHINGTON — Five days ago, Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene stood in front of their lockers in the clubhouse following multi-hit performances in a convincing 4-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Perhaps no word in the baseball vernacular is used more often. It’s often uttered when describing a hitter’s attempt to swing a round bat and squarely hit a round ball being hurled at them at rates of ...
On Tuesday night, it happened again. Arizona Diamondbacks DH Pavin Smith crushed his fourth homer of the season, sending a high fastball 420 feet deep, 106 MPH off the bat for a go-ahead two-run blast ...
After finishing with a 105 weighted runs created-plus in 2023 — 100 represents the major-league average — Swanson finished at 97 in 2024 and 99 last season. A member of the vaunted class of free-agent ...