The presence of "King Felix" is one of the early subplots for the reigning National League East Division champions.

Alex Bregman spoke for about 30 seconds and said he was sorry, although he did not say why. He said he had learned, but he did not say what.

The Chattanooga Lookouts are eight weeks away from beginning their third decade of Southern League baseball games at AT&T Field.

So it's come to this, has it?

The crack of the bat at spring-training camps replaced the sound of trash-can lids banging in homemade YouTube videos as baseball emerged from its winter of cheating scandals and salary dumps to bask in the Florida and Arizona sun.

The Braves are coming off back-to-back National League East Division titles that were followed by disappointing first-round exits in the playoffs.

Bickering over Major League Baseball's proposal to cut 42 farm teams escalated Wednesday with the exchange of acrimonious letters by the commissioner's office and the governing body of the minor leagues.

Dusty Baker has been hired to replace AJ Hinch as manager of the Houston Astros.

Johan Camargo has a second chance to be the Atlanta Braves' starting third baseman.

The Los Angeles Dodgers would rather earn a World Series trophy on their own than accept any scraps from the Houston Astros or the Boston Red Sox, the teams that beat them in 2017 and 2018.

Oakland Athletics pitcher Mike Fiers didn't have any more to say regarding his role as a whistleblower.

The Boston Red Sox are still hoping to have a manager in place by spring training, but chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said Thursday it's possible they won't hire someone before pitchers and catchers report Feb. 12.

The New York Mets have hired Luis Rojas as their manager to replace Carlos Beltrán.

After signaling an intent to aggressively seek upgrades to a club that won 101 games last season, the Minnesota Twins were passed over in their initial pursuit of top-tier starting pitching.

Derek Jeter and Larry Walker rarely crossed paths during their time in the major leagues.

Marcell Ozuna doesn't have to match his career-best numbers of 2017 or even meet the slugging standards set by third baseman Josh Donaldson last year for the Atlanta Braves to make them feel good about the investment in their new outfielder.

More than two dozen mayors - and counting - have signed on to a task force to save minor league baseball in their communities in the first 24 hours since the group was created, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said Wednesday.

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke will join the mayors of Dayton, Ohio, and Columbia, South Carolina, to co-chair a task force to save minor league baseball in the face of plans to cut 42 teams, including the Chattanooga Lookouts.

Derek Jeter came within one vote of being a unanimous pick for the Hall of Fame, while Larry Walker also earned baseball's highest honor on Tuesday.

Players from two teams at the center of professional baseball's sign-stealing scandal faced their fans for the first time since the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox ousted their managers amid the fallout from the investigation into Houston's elaborate and electronically aided scheme.

Carlos Beltrán is out as manager of the New York Mets before a single game, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball.

Rick Honeycutt won a World Series championship as an Oakland Athletics pitcher back in 1989 and nearly won another as the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching coach in 2017.

In the 1956 World Series, won in seven games by the New York Yankees, Don Larsen was knocked out in the second inning of Game 2 by the Brooklyn Dodgers and didn't think he would have another opportunity to pitch that season.