ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Baseball can’t run away from its lack of runs. Batting averages are near half-century lows. Velocity is at an all-time high. "Run scoring, it’s not easy to do. It’s hard and it ...

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San Diego Padres’ Manny Machado walks back to the dugout after popping out during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in San Diego. ARLINGTON — ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Stolen bases and batting averages are up and game times are down in the first postseason with the pitch clock and larger bases. There have been an average of 1.4 steals per game ...

For over a century, it was the unrivaled gold standard among baseball statistics. Batting champions were revered. Everyone basically agreed that a .300 hitter was, in fact, a great hitter. Today, if ...

The Cleveland Guardians have one of the deepest farm systems in the entire league. But one player who's stood out, Travis ...

There still isn’t a ton of power at second base, but there are a handful of guys who will give you an advantage at that ...

The strange legacy of baseball’s data revolution is that it aimed to break the sport out of a one-dimensional measure of what makes a great hitter—batting average—and somehow led to a new, even more ...

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