Last week, the Baseball America staff got into a discussion about the prevalence of position players pitching in the minors. We’d seen several games over the past week in which teams threw in the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Umpires barredDodgersmanager Dave Roberts from using a position player to pitch the ninth inning against the New York Mets on Saturday night, enforcing a rule Roberts apparently did not ...

For the second time in three games, Arizona Diamondbacks catcher James McCann was tasked with cleaning up the final inning of a brutal blowout loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. The Diamondbacks have had ...

Every MLB contender wants Tarik Skubal, but only some have packages that'd interest the Detroit Tigers.

Arizona Diamondbacks catcher James McCann tied an MLB record Thursday by pitching in four games as a position player before May. Alas, because Thursday was the last day of April, he won’t get an ...

During opening weekend, John Ryan Murphy, the Diamondbacks' third-string catcher, faced Brock Stewart, the Dodgers' mop-up reliever. Stewart had the bat. These ultra-rare matchups -- between a ...

When the script is eventually written on the career of Tyler Andrew Heineman, this may not be among his career accolades, but Blue Jays historians and baseball trivia sickos alike can stick this ...