SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Kris Bryant has reported to Rockies spring training, and he has a locker in the Salt River Fields clubhouse, but he’s not a baseball player.

Tuesday, while his teammates went through their first full-squad workouts, Bryant was suited up in Rockies purple, but he was a bystander. He cannot run, let alone compete on the ...Read more

NEW YORK — As baseball’s contentious labor dispute nears a critical moment, the MLB Players Association is suddenly in need of a new leader.

Tony Clark is resigning as the MLBPA’s executive director after an internal investigation found he had an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law, ESPN reported.

The woman had been hired ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates' front office promised to spend some money to try to improve the roster this offseason, and they have at least delivered on that on some level.

There will be some who still don't think they did enough and others who will point to the fact that they didn't bring in one of the big-name players they were ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Fans weren’t the only ones begging the New York Yankees to make a significant move over the winter as rivals improved and Cody Bellinger’s free agency dragged deep into January.

Aaron Judge also found himself antsy, admitting Monday that it was “frustrating” to watch his Bombers only make smaller transactions — outside...Read more

TEMPE, Ariz. — A year after Mike Trout announced that he was moving to right field in an effort to preserve his health, he said he’s planning to go back to center.

“I just feel more comfortable out there,” Trout said before the Angels’ first full-squad workout of the spring on Monday. “I feel like I’m at my best when I’m in ...Read more

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The New York Mets will not be naming a captain anytime soon. Not in 2026, and not as long as Steve Cohen is running the show.

“As long as I’m owning the team, there will never be a team captain,” Cohen said Monday at Clover Park. “That was my decision.”

This effectively put an end to the speculation that the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins’ marketing department is probably not going to put this sentence on billboards, but the 2026 Twins have a chance to be the most unusual bad team in recent franchise history.

Another sentence you might not see on television ads: The 2026 Twins probably won’t be the worst bad team in recent franchise ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Category 7 tornado that is the Los Angeles Dodgers cut a swath through the hopes of at least a dozen MLB clubs long before the regular season begins.

The Texas Rangers are not the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, Miami Marlins or the other handful of teams that play the same game as the Dodgers, but aren’t in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — His smile is so unassuming, his stare so innocent, one has to wonder.

Does Yoshinobu Yamamoto understand he's become a Los Angeles Dodgers legend?

"No," he said Saturday, chuckling at the notion. "Nothing's changed."

Ah, but everything has changed, the formerly overpaid disappointment having transformed himself into arguably ...Read more

PEORIA, Ariz. — Manny Machado arrived at spring training with the idea it will serve him and the Padres best long term if he essentially eases into camp despite needing to be in game shape in early March, when the World Baseball Classic begins and he is playing for the Dominican Republic.

Nonetheless, in his first public comments of the ...Read more

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Bryce Harper touched down in Phillies camp, pulled on a black T-shirt — no, not the black T-shirt that went viral over the holidays — and summarized one of the weirdest weeks in an offseason of his career.

“For Dave [Dombrowski] to come out and say those things,“ Harper said, ”it’s kind of wild to me still."

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LAKELAND, Fla. — They sit side by side in the Detroit Tigers clubhouse, best friends and best prospects, waiting their turn, biding their time. Eventually, Kevin McGonigle and Max Clark hope to move from the middle row of lockers to the ones against the wall where the stars reside. But for now, their roles are simple.

They’re sponges, ...Read more

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — They know what you think. They know you have doubts, concerns and complaints.

And, really, the folks in charge of creating ovations and memories in Tampa, Fla., do not blame you.

A Rays roster is never as straightforward as, say, the New York Yankees or Atlanta Braves. It’s more of an illusion. A sleight of hand. You...Read more

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On the day Kiké Hernández came home, meaning the whole gang was returning for a run at a third consecutive World Series championship, I asked Dodgers manager Dave Roberts an obvious question.

Could this be his best team ever?

Relaxed and beaming throughout his annual Cactus League media day appearance Thursday at a ...Read more

MESA, Ariz. — There was a real possibility Shota Imanaga’s last moments in a Chicago Cubs uniform would be one of heartbreak.

Imanaga had to watch the Milwaukee Brewers’ victory celebration from the bullpen at American Family Field, the season ending without getting a chance to pitch in the decisive Game 5 of the National League Division ...Read more

GLENDALE, Ariz. — As he enters the ninth season of his MLB career – third with the Dodgers – Shohei Ohtani’s list of accomplishments is long indeed.

Four MVP awards (two in each league), baseball’s first 50/50 season and now two World Series titles.

What’s left? How about a Cy Young Award?

“If at the end the result is getting a ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — As Gerrit Cole threw his first bullpen of spring training on Friday morning, a crowd of reporters made their best efforts to get a look through the mostly-covered fence that encaged the rehabbing righty.

While those with cameras took turns sharing limited peepholes in order to snap a shot of Cole, who underwent Tommy John ...Read more

CLEARWATER, Fla. — One day after the Phillies released Nick Castellanos, it was business as usual in their clubhouse.

Even before the transaction was official, Castellanos’ absence had been obvious from the start of spring training. Not only because president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski had repeatedly indicated over the winter ...Read more

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Red Sox might be sending one of their brightest young stars to the World Baseball Classic after all.

Roman Anthony will undergo an intake physical on Saturday to determine if he’s eligible to join Team USA for next month’s tournament. As first reported by the Boston Globe’s Tim Healey, Anthony would replace ...Read more