Major League Baseball’s on-field product might not be perfect, but it’s pretty darn good. If we could love only perfect things, our days would be bleak. Baseball, as we find it today, is an opportunity to appreciate an imperfect thing and allow it to make us feel happy.

Advice from Greg Maddux to Tarik Skubal? "I would encourage not only him, but all the pitchers to always make an honest effort to try to get better."

It’s been an organizational turnaround after the big-league club missed nine postseasons in a row and the farm system consistently ranked among baseball’s worst. Now Keith Law ranks the system seventh, and believes it’s the team’s best since the days of Justin Verlander and Curtis Granderson.

Tony Reagins, Major League Baseball's evp of baseball and softball development, said MLB saw potential in Athletes Unlimited almost two years ago, but wanted to get to know its leadership and get a sense of whether or not it was built for longevity-which had been an issue for professional softball leagues in the past.

SportsLine's Mike McClure, a daily Fantasy pro with over $2 million in winnings, gives optimal MLB DFS lineup advice for Wednesday, May 28

Major League Baseball is purchasing a stake in Athletes Unlimited Softball League as part of efforts to “establish and grow the AUSL as a sustainable organization” MLB said in a statement Thursday.

Here, in the land of Dreamers, baseball is still a romantic’s game. It is coifed fields and youthful prospects. Devoted fans and timeless stories. It is yesterday’s memories and tomorrow’s promise, and danged if it doesn’t feel worth as many checkbooks as it’ll take to make the dream come true.

We have myriad traditions in baseball and one of the many is using Memorial Day as a tentpole. There's still plenty of time for teams that have been good so far to fall apart and also tons of time for a disappointing team to get hot and do something like win 15 of 20 to thrust themselves into contention.

A World Series rematch kicked off Friday night as the New York Yankees traveled to the City of Angels to face the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers—and the fireworks started early. Yankees superstar Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat in the top of the first inning.