The 2025 MLB season has seen some instances where teams allow a position player to pitch in the game. It seems to have been happening more frequently this year, and former pitcher John Smoltz is tired ...

LOS ANGELES -- Umpires barredDodgersmanager Dave Roberts from using a position player to pitch the ninth inning against the New York Mets on Saturday night, enforcing a rule Roberts apparently did not ...

BOSTON – The Orioles had a game postponed yesterday for the fifth time this season, setting up the third of their four scheduled doubleheaders. Life keeps getting harder for them. They give up 13 runs ...

Unnamed former MLB players are reaching out to league offices and union executives in an attempt to implement a clause in the upcoming collective bargaining agreement to reduce the number of position ...

The usage of a position player as a pitcher rarely is celebrated and never done under ideal circumstances. The plan isn’t implemented to gain an advantage. Quite the opposite. And it isn’t popular ...

Hunter Barco bought it. Hook, line and -- appropriate for his offseason -- sinker. Pirates manager Don Kelly called Barco ...

Pitching is precarious, which means predicting pitching is precarious. (Almost as precarious as trying to say, “Predicting ...