One of the wonders of baseball is there is a record for everything. You set the criteria, plug it into Baseball-Reference’s Stathead search feature and it’ll tell you who owns the record. The most starts to begin a career with three or fewer runs allowed? The record is 24 and belongs to Zac Gallen, who snatched it last year from Aaron Sele. The most successful stolen base attempts to begin a career? Tim Locastro’s 29, breaking a record previously owned by Tim Raines. And there are far more obscure records than that.

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Major League Baseball's regular season is nearly 70 percent of the way finished. Every team has completed at least 110 of their scheduled contests as of Tuesday night, providing us with a good outline of what their years will look like, even if there are finer details left to fill in. It's that time of the year, then, when we feel more comfortable writing about broader concepts. 

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San Diego Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. responded enthusiastically about moving to the outfield for the remainder of the season, multiple people with the team told The Athletic's Dennis Lin.

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Juan Soto is the modern day Ted Williams. Very smart baseball people have said this. The 22-year-old phenom is in the last year of a contract with the Washington Nationals. Considering the franchise's recent moves, which sent tens of millions of dollars elsewhere, it certainly seems like the plan is to rebuild around Soto's bright star. But nothing in baseball, like nothing in life, is guaranteed. And when one starts speculating about different landing places, New York is always the first town that comes to mind.

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Los Angeles Angels two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani is, without a doubt, one of the most dynamic and entertaining players that Major League Baseball has to offer. Ohtani, who will likely win the American League Most Valuable Player Award this fall, is doing more than capturing the attention of the baseball world. He's doing more, too, than causing teams across the league to reconsider the viability of two-way players. 

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All in all, the last four years have been a monotonous rebuilding period for the Detroit Tigers. For the first time in this rebuild, however, the Tigers are finally making tangible progress.

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The MLB made some bad headlines after the Colorado Rockies game against the Miami Marlins on Sunday was overshadowed by what seemed to be an unfortunate incident regarding one of the fans. It appeared that he dropped the n-bomb. On Monday, reports came that he was actually screaming ‘Dinger’, the name of the Rockies mascot.

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Major League Baseball may look to implement a 14-team postseason field during this offseason's collective bargaining sessions, Ken Rosenthal reported Monday on The Athletic Baseball Show podcast. 

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The 2021 MLB trade deadline was a wild one and saw some big names go elsewhere. Among them, two of the biggest were Max Scherzer and Trea Turner. The talented duo went from the Washington Nationals to the Los Angeles Dodgersin a huge blockbuster deal, although the San Diego Padres were heavily interested in acquiring Scherzer.

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In December 2019, the Philadelphia Phillies rolled the dice on a $118 million contract with former New York Mets right-hander Zack Wheeler. Two years later, Wheeler has utterly out-pitched his contract.

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Los Angeles Dodgers fans have been going crazy in and out of the stands in 2021.

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Anthony Rizzo, who as a Chicago Cub said he chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine because he was “taking some more time to see the data,” tested positive for the coronavirus, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Sunday. 

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