NEW YORK — The Atlantic League is restoring its pitching mound to 60 feet, 6 inches from home plate and returning strike zone judgment to […]

Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher Report Cornell University graduate Shohei Ohtani isn’t shying away from his status as the face of baseball. In an […]

Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Now that Jon Lester has announced his retirement from baseball after 16 major […]

ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball and the MLB Players […]

The MLBPA and MLB owners haven’t made much — any — headway on a new CBA since the lockout started, but just because it’s going to […]

Baseball’s labor negotiations have wandered into the fire swamp, and both sides need to avoid the lightning sand, the fire spurts and any R.O.U.S. confrontations to […]

Baseball’s labor fellowship has broken up, and any pursuit of rings will have to wait until the players and owners throw their differences into the […]

How deeply does baseball pulse through the veins of The Sporting News? It was the reason TSN was established in 1886 (more to come on […]

Baseball’s labor negotiations have entered the Temple of Doom this winter, and the hope is that the owners and players will quit stalling and find […]

We love to celebrate the great individual moments in sports.  Kirk Gibson’s home run in the 1988 World Series. Brandi Chastain’s winning goal to end […]