The first rule of tampering is never talk about another team’s player coming to yours: A lesson Aaron Judge of the Yankees now understands after MLB admonished him for “encouraging” Manny Machado to leave the Orioles.
Combating a receding menace.
The Pirates and Reds play free ball, Dallas Keuchel dominates, and the rest of the action, plus what to watch tonight.
The staff shares stories of the best extra-inning affairs we can remember.
After four teams gave us back-to-back 19-inning games over the weekend, the staff recounts some of its favorite bonus baseball affairs.
Ben and Sam discuss whether the league will ever take steps to prevent extremely long games, then talk about what baseball would be like without playoffs.
An examination of how baseball’s increasing strikeout rate has impacted the game, torn from the pages of BP’s next book.