Reading the official MLB player stats is like jumping down a rabbit hole. The further you dig into it, the more you realize that there are things you have no clue about. Baseball is indeed a game of ...

Major League Baseball has a new all-time batting leader. Josh Gibson played in the Negro Leagues before baseball was integrated. Now, statistics from those players have been added to the books. It's ...

Baseball is perhaps the most statistics-intensive sport of them all. Sometimes it can make the game seem way more complicated than it is. However, the goal of all the advanced metrics that have come ...

Certain MLB numbers are etched in history. There are the classics: Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak, Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632 consecutive games played, Nolan Ryan's 5,714 career strikeouts, etc. Then ...

Sometimes MLB statistics can be fun. For instance, which players have the fasted and slowest home run trots so far in the 2023 season? The 2023 MLB season has gone on for over a month. While there’s ...

M.L.B. is still working to incorporate Negro league statistics, but a popular website now lets fans put some of the numbers in context. By James Wagner On Monday, Baseball Reference, the go-to source ...

On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s threw a nine-inning no-hitter—and lost. Errors allowed Pete Rose to reach base and eventually score the game’s only run in the 9th inning.

The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Do stats matter in early April? Well … some of them? Plus: We check in on ...

It’s been 53 years since the first Negro Leagues player was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Now, baseball’s recognition of the Negro Leagues is finally reflected in the ...