DETROIT - A shorter swing could put the spring back in the top prospect's step. Erik Castro, a 26-year-old first baseman in the Astros' system, had good numbers at Class AA Corpus Christi: a .280 ...

Mar. 6—"The one constant through all the years," James Earl Jones famously intoned in "Field of Dreams," "has been baseball." So it has. But this year, Major League Baseball will impose its most ...

Jim Evans has dedicated his entire professional life to developing an encyclopedic knowledge of the most arcane details of the baseball rulebook. He worked as a major-league umpire for close to three ...

Kurt Suzuki was first tasked with learning a new pitching staff when he arrived in Washington in a trade from Oakland a month ago, but still had to bat. While the 28-year-old understood then and now ...

“The one constant through all the years,” James Earl Jones famously intoned in “Field of Dreams,” “has been baseball.” So it has. But this year, Major League Baseball will impose its most sweeping ...