We’ve become quite accustomed to position players pitching. In 2018, more than 40 appeared on the mound at least once, ...

Major League Baseball announced some finalized rule changes Monday, including, putting limits on the use of position players on the pitcher's mound, ESPN's Jesse Rogers reports. The competition ...

The Toronto Blue Jays starting pitching for the 2025 season is all but set in stone. This is an off-season series, looking at the current Jays’ depth for starting pitching, their bullpen, the first ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Yes, there is a striking parallel that the Little League World Series, which has had a handful of mercy-rule endings already, and Thursday's 17-1 rout of the Astros has ...

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 ...

In the eighth inning of the New York Yankees' game against the Milwaukee Brewers Saturday, right fielder Aaron Judge came up with a chance to make history. Judge was bidding to become the 19th player ...

Miguel Rojas took the mound late in the Dodgers’ 16-0 blowout loss to the Cubs recently, and for a brief moment, the internet had its fun. The veteran infielder—best known for his glove, not his ...

The 2025 MLB season has seen some instances where teams allow a position player to pitch in the game. It seems to have been happening more frequently this year, and former pitcher John Smoltz is tired ...

Pitchers are permitted to use two legal pitching deliveries -- the windup position and the set position -- and either position may be used at any time.

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

USA TODAY Sports has live coverage of Dodgers vs. Blue Jays in World Series Game 4. LOS ANGELES — Just how close did this World Series come to suffering the indignity of a position player pitching in ...