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This Closter, N.J., field was once used for competitive Little League games but now is mainly a practice field for locals. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) Rob Albericci saw the curve coming. He saw his son Austin’s Little League baseball team struggle to recruit enough kids to fill a roster. He saw the rising demands of Austin’s football team, the growing pressure for kids to focus on a single sport,…

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  Between 2010 and 2011, I covered five postseason games at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. Last year, I covered two exhibition games at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Based on my firsthand experience, I can tell you — unequivocally — that there is greater passion for baseball in Montreal than Tampa Bay. Does that mean the Tampa Bay Rays are about to become the Montreal Expos? No. The Rays have…

Montreal crowd at game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Toronto Blue Jays at the Olympic Stadium.(Photo: Eric Bolte, USA TODAY Sports) MONTREAL — It’s more than a decade since baseball turned its back on Montreal … or was it the other way around? It no longer matters, judging by the city’s love-fest for the game, a time-warp weekend that was a wistful combination of nostalgia and hope. “We’re in…

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…

Finding bravery and heroism among athletes isn’t common. They’re just playing sports, after all. Entertainers, absolutely. Good role models, possibly. Heroes? Not usually. An exception: Jason Boulais, a senior at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, who also pitches for the baseball team. Boulais’ gotten mixed results so far this season, and his overall ERA isn’t where he’d like it to be. But it’s not on the field where…

We’re just one day from the opening of the 2015 MLB season, but some of you still haven’t completed your fantasy baseball draft. My colleague Creg Stephenson and I will be writing about fantasy baseball happenings throughout the season. We can’t promise you’ll dominate your league, but we feel like we have some tips to help out. This post deals with prospects and when they’ll be called up to the…

The Major League Baseball season starts Monday, with many a pinch of tobacco between many a cheek and gum. Not everyone is happy about this (about the chewing tobacco, that is). The San Francisco board of supervisors is considering a measure to put chew off-limits at every ball field in the city, including AT&T Park, where the world-champion Giants play. A bill introduced February in the California Assembly would do…

Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton will not be disciplined by Major League Baseball for his latest problems involving cocaine and alcohol. Team officials responded by saying they were surprised and disappointed. Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto said he disagrees with the ruling by an arbitrator appointed under MLB’s joint drug program with the players’ association. MLB said earlier Friday that it disagreed with the ruling. Hamilton, a five-time All-Star…

I came up with the idea for the original 30-game road trip while I was a member of the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, a college club that was designed to reduce all sports decisions to Moneyball-style minutia. I devised our road trip itinerary using a computational technique called linear programming. I wanted to visit all 30 parks in 30 days, and I wanted to build in enough time in each…

Buena Athletics Director Dave Albertson defended his high school baseball program after the reigning state champions posted a 52-3 victory over Pleasantville on Thursday. The Chiefs used 26 players in the contest, pounded out 26 hits in the game and scored 20 runs in the third inning. Albertson said he has not fielded any phone calls of complaint from Pleasantville coaches, parents or administrators but that he understands his program…

Baseball is changing. I suppose that’s nothing new — baseball has always been changing, but now novel technologies and team philosophies are reshaping the game to a near-unprecedented degree. Pitch tracking, new kinds of defensive positioning, hyper-specialized relief pitching — all are altering the tactical landscape of MLB. FiveThirtyEight’s season preview is about some of those changes. Tons of season previews concentrate on the teams — our friends at Grantland…

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Every year, there are fantasy players who reach for a player based on potential or one great season they had three years ago. And every year a good number of those people get stung by taking that player who was vastly overrated while there were plenty of underrated players available deeper in drafts who could provide the same, if not better, numbers at a much cheaper cost. It’s time for…

It’s that time of year again. Another Major League Baseball season begins on Sunday, and with it another year of fantasy baseball. This will be my 18th consecutive season playing fantasy baseball, but my first as a fantasy baseball writer. All season long, my colleague Drew Champlin and I will be bringing you fantasy baseball tips, strategies and information on AL.com. We’re not promising to help you “dominate your league,”…

Flickr/ TIMMER!! iStock iStock AP Photo AP Photo As the weather warms up, there’s not much we’d rather do than spend a Saturday at the ballpark.  Going to a game is always thrilling, from the rush you feel the first moment you walk through the tunnel and that emerald green field opens up before you to the memories brought back from games you experienced years ago. Even for the casual…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence today admitted that he mishandled the passage of a religious freedom law and now wants a piece of legislation to clarify that it does not give anyone the right to discriminate in the state. “This law does not give anyone a license to deny services to gay and lesbian couples. I could have handled that better this week,” he said. His comments came hours before the…

Dusseldorf, Germany (CNN)Reports say video found in the wreckage on a French mountainside shows the nightmarish final seconds of Germanwings Flight 9525, but a police spokesman said the accounts were “completely wrong.” French magazine Paris Match and German newspaper Bild reported that a video recovered from a cell phone at the wreckage site showed the inside of the plane moments before it crashed. “One can hear cries of ‘My God’…