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On Thursday afternoon, in the overpriced and stratified city that I now call home, the San Francisco Giants will play their home opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Giants are among the favorites to win the World Series, which, if it happens, would be their fourth title in seven seasons. The Giants also play in what is widely regarded as baseball’s most picturesque stadium, a placid pitchers’ ballpark named…

Just in time for the start of baseball season, Apple has beefed up Siri’s knowledge of baseball stats, scores, and trivia. Siri can now do things like tell you Babe Ruth’s career batting average, the lineup of the 2008 World Series winning Phillies, or even who won the World Series in 1934. Siri has also learned how to do league-level queries from 29 different baseball leagues, ranging from the Cape Cod…

His girlfriend told him. Tyler White had given up checking his phone — his battery was going dead. He had just finished college and was on the road helping his father coach an AAU baseball team. Then his girlfriend, Macey Bright, sent him a text message. He had been drafted. By the Astros. In the 33rd round. Tyler White, a third baseman who had no Division I scholarship offers before walking on at Western Carolina, was going to be a professional baseball…

Get all of Michael Beller’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. The baseball season may just be starting, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to hate your fantasy team. It’s entirely possible you made some missteps in your draft or auction that you need to rectify as soon as…

Photo via Getty At last, the death-gods have released their cold, icy grip on the United States; the trees are green, the birds are singing, and our greatest sport has returned. While there’s just too much to keep track of in terms of who’s where and what’s what and who’s going to do what and such—FiveThirtyEight, Fangraphs, Sports on Earth, and SI are good places to check in if you…

Get all of Michael Beller’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. The baseball season may just be starting, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to hate your fantasy team. It’s entirely possible you made some missteps in your draft or auction that you need to rectify as soon as…

Maybe most representative of the new tenets of team-building, though, are a pair of players the Cubs added during the offseason with the goal of jumping from contenders to champions. Jason Heyward hit a modest 13 home runs last year, but he plays the best right field in baseball, gliding in every direction, making difficult catches seem ordinary by the precision of his routes. Ben Zobrist, last seen helping the…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Even casual baseball fans can spit numbers at you like major leaguers fire out sunflower seed shells: Babe Ruth’s 714, Pete Rose’s 4,256, Ted Williams’ .406. But the average fan’s perspective of the game is influenced by a slew of other numbers, from advanced modern statistics like Wins Above Replacement (WAR) and Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) to more everyday — though still sometimes shocking — figures, like the cost of…

With the season about to start, here’s who we feel are the 50 most important players in baseball: 1. Mike Trout, OF, Angels — When you ask baseball people, “Trout or Harper?” you get mixed responses, but Trout comes out on top here. The positives you hear are quiet, effective, classy, graceful, best all around. Advertisement 2. Bryce Harper, OF, Nationals — Harper’s breakout season in 2015 was a release…

MONTREAL — It seems everyone, including commissioner Rob Manfred, wants to give Montreal a second chance for baseball, after the Expos moved to Washington in 2004 and became the Nationals. The Expos moved because the owners could no longer make money. They moved because of a monstrosity known as Olympic Stadium, the facility in which the Red Sox and Blue Jays played exhibition games on Friday night and Saturday. Advertisement…

AP With Peyton Manning officially retired and his future plans unofficially in limbo, the investigation sparked by a December report from Al Jazeera that Manning obtained HGH through his wife from an Indianapolis clinic has faded. But the issue has hardly disappeared, due to the other athletes mentioned in the same documentary. One of them, free-agent baseball catcher Taylor Teagarden, has received an 80-game suspension from Major League Baseball. Via…

The U.S. Major League Baseball season starts on Sunday, and fantasy players are already making their predictions. But before you get wrapped up in this year’s games, take a look at these photos of people playing baseball across the globe.

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Some welcome springtime for its flowering trees, chirping birds and melting snow. For others, the season has one purpose, and that purpose is baseball. Every year around the beginning of April, the grass is groomed, the hot dog buns are replenished and the crowds return for another season of Major League Baseball. Not only were heads of state and stars of Hollywood staples at the festivities—but so, too, were LIFE…