ESPN is nearing a deal to distribute out-of-market games while NBC/Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV are in talks for regular-season packages, the wild card round and the Home Run Derby.

Cincinnati Reds pitching prospect Zach "Big Sugar" Maxwell got his first MLB callup Aug. 22 in Arizona. The impending free agent is the third active player to be his franchise's career home runs leader.

Carson Williams had a debut to remember Friday. But you’ll excuse the Rays’ No. 1 prospect if some of the images from his big night are a little hazy.

Pawol was at second base for Friday night’s series opener as part of a four-person crew that includes crew chief Ron Kulpa, Alex Tosi and Manny Gonzalez.

A lockout after next season is being treated like a foregone conclusion. Anything that shifts our attention away from that is a distraction.

Major League Baseball is in advanced talks with NBC to ink a three-year rights deal for the network to carry games.

After a lifetime of wondering what it might be like to reach the big leagues, Nathan Church was astonished to find that reality was even better than he ever dreamed it would be.

Chair Assia Grazioli-Venier is a venture capitalist who has invested in the NWSL’s Washington Spirit and the sports vertical Just Women’s Sports. It is all very ground-floor at the moment, lacking, for better or worse, the financial backbone and overlord status the NBA lent to the WNBA for its 1997 launch.

Jen Pawol is back in the big leagues. Pawol, who made history this month when she became the first female umpire to work a Major League Baseball game, is part of the crew working the three-game series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies this weekend.

The coach, who’s also the uncle of NBA slam dunk champ Mac McClung, is taking over the team after a successful turnaround at Tarpon Springs.