J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

The hype over Topps' debut patch cards was ramped up by the pursuit of Paul Skenes’ card after it was released in November.

It sure sounds nice, the idea that Major League Baseball ... Rose, baseball’s Charlie Hustle, was controversial and complicated. Away from the game, Rose received a 5-month prison sentence ...

Beyond baseball ... 10,823rd major league player when he debuted July 16, 1951. He pitched 2⅔ innings for the Yankees that day at Detroit, then earned his first career win one month later ...

The 2025 Major League Baseball season ... the favorite to win the AL MVP award on Friday, and it is not Judge. It's Bobby Witt Jr. MLB asked five of their baseball writers to rank the five ...

PHOENIX – The Milwaukee Brewers head into the 2025 season with the best player in the major leagues ... only that award but also for the most prestigious one of all, National League MVP.

After a Rookie of the Year campaign in 2023, Carroll struggled for his first time as a pro last season. Here's why -- and how ...

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content ... In 2016, he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for breaking news coverage. He once recorded a keyboard solo on the ...

And if a player’s slate gets wiped clean at death ... after receiving a petition for reinstatement from Rose’s family, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is considering removing ...

Smith has met — if not exceeded — all of the organization’s expectations during his first taste of major-league spring ... scout his entire baseball life. Evaluating a player beyond ...

The Spurs’ second-year big man was looking like a shoo-in to win his first of what could be many Hakeem Olajuwon Trophies in balloting for the league ... Player of the Month award, which ...

That season he was second in the voting for the American League Rookie of the Year Award ... professional baseball history is far from the norm for a major league player of his stature.