Few things warm the heart like the snap, crackle, and pop of rawhide meeting leather on a mid-February morning. The poets can have their buzzing bees and birdsong and tinkling streams. The real sounds of spring echo across empty diamonds from rubber mounds outside the outstretched shadow of BayCare Ballpark’s left-field wall.

Casey Mize will start the Detroit Tigers' first road exhibition game of the Grapefruit League season. Mize will pitch on Sunday in Tampa against the New York Yankees. Manager A.J. Hinch previously announced that Kenta Maeda would start Saturday’s opener in Lakeland against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Sandberg, who was a three-sport star at North Central High School who made his MLB debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1981, was not able to attend camp last year while undergoing treatment for metastatic prostate cancer,

The Philadelphia Phillies have not had a lot of Japanese pitchers in their organization, but their newest international signee hopes to be an example to the rest.

Weston Wilson had the inside track to the Phillies’ final bench job but will miss six weeks with an oblique strain, increasing the chances of Buddy Kennedy, who homered in Saturday’s Grapefruit League opener.

We are getting close to some actual baseball games being played across Major League Baseball, as the Detroit Tigers prepare for their first contest of the Spring Training season, taking on the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.

SARASOTA—For years, both in the minors and the majors, Cedric Mullins was part of an outfield alignment with Austin Hays and Anthony Santander. Last July 26th, the Orioles traded Hays to the Philadelphia Phillies in the deal that brought reliever Seranthony Domínguez to the Orioles.

After retiring the first batter in the bottom of the fifth inning on a flyout, Sweet then faced Yandy Diaz, who hit one back up the box and off the pitcher's arm. The reliever will be looked at further,

Owed $36 million over the next two seasons, Walker is coming off a historically bad season and doesn’t have a spot in the rotation.

The Grapefruit League opener is here, folks, and you know what that means—it's time to start overanalyzing numbers that haven't even had a chance to g