Former New York Mets manager Buck Showalter is very open-minded when it comes to the use of analytics, but he is still deep down an old-school mind that values experience and instinct in certain ...

NORTH PORT, Fla. – It remains one of baseball’s highly-respected traits, even if optimization has rendered it nearly obsolete. After all, playing 162 games with few breaks in between can’t be ...

As baseball season winds down, pitchers face an important decision: should they take a complete break (“shutdown”) or follow a gradual “de-load” period to protect their arm health and maintain ...