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The NewsLouisiana State’s baseball program pulled off an unprecedented feat on Sunday, with players from its College World Series-winning team being taken with the top two picks in Major League Baseball’s draft in Seattle. With the No. 1…

The top pick in this year’s Major League Baseball draft will probably come from Louisiana State’s College World Series-winning team. The only question seems to be which player will head to the Pittsburgh Pirates at No. 1, and which will go…

On Sunday in Seattle, for the fourth year in a row — enough for a full class of college prospects — Major League Baseball will hold a streamlined version of its amateur draft. From an event with unlimited rounds to one with 50 rounds, then…

Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., believed to be the oldest professional baseball stadium in the United States, has played host to some of baseball’s greatest luminaries during its 113-year run, including Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, the…

In a move that could signify the beginning of a new era in how Major League Baseball games are distributed, the league is taking over production and distribution of all San Diego Padres games starting with the team’s game against the Miami…

There is no question that this season will go down in history as the one in which the pitch clock changed baseball. Whether it is also the season that saved baseball is too soon to tell, but the pitch clock’s effect is real: With around a…

Major League Baseball is hoping to become the latest major sports league to enter the Las Vegas market. The Oakland Athletics announced last week that they had agreed to purchase land near the Las Vegas Strip in hopes of building a ballpark…

Major League Baseball and its players’ union couldn’t agree on the specifics of an international amateur draft ahead of Monday’s deadline, and thus the status quo will continue in the sport.Despite calls to reform an existing system that…

LOS ANGELES — Asked why Major League Baseball’s team owners do not pay minor league players a living wage — whether it was because they could not afford to or because they didn’t want to — M.L.B. Commissioner Rob Manfred suggested those…

LOS ANGELES — The Major League Baseball draft is not about name recognition or instant gratification. No prospect has played in a bowl game or busted a bracket in March. Even for the top choices, the dimmer lights of the minor leagues…