The proof of Brandon Bailey’s big-league career can be found inside his parents’ house in the Denver suburbs. The jersey worn in his debut with the Houston Astros on July 26, 2020, hangs on a wall.

This is how it works around here. Every year, as Opening Day nears, I dust off my crystal ball and try to predict the future, with a little column we call “The Numbers That Define Baseball.” It’s fun.

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball,” wrote cultural historian and baseball bard Jacques Barzun. Barzun’s famous commentary, published in 1954, came at a ...

This was a weird season for baseball. You know this already, on account of the fact that it has been a weird year for life, and if you tried to forget that for even a second while watching a ballgame, ...

Arriving soon at a color television set near you will be the baseball program of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. In 2021, baseball makes its vaguely anticipated return to the Games for the first time ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2020 World Series in Game 6 Tuesday night, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1. It was the longest of waits for the L.A. Dodgers and their long-suffering fans. The last ...

The physical museum building — a must-visit baseball site, I promise — was uprooted and moved in 2019, with plans to reopen in 2020. The pandemic thwarted those plans, and now the hoped-for reopening ...

2020 was an exceptionally challenging year for all, baseball included. From the restructuring of the minors, loss of games, shortened draft to the pushed back international signing period, we’ve done ...

Don't look for baseball to return to the Olympics in 2024 (Photo by Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images) Don’t look for baseball to be part of the Summer Olympics when it comes to Paris in 2024.