The 2024 Texas Rangers aren’t where they want to be by any means. Entering play today, Texas sat at just 53-59, less than a year removed from their first-ever World Series title. However, the champs’ lack of success hasn’t had anything to do with the play of Josh Smith. Before the season started, a comment… read more

The Kannapolis Cannon Ballers kicked off the week with a six-game set at home against the Salem Red Sox. They went 2-4 as they continued their second-half struggles.

It was a tough roadtrip for the Colorado Rockies during their trip to California. After they were swept in four games by the San Francisco Giants they took two games from the Los Angeles Angels before losing two of three to the San Diego Padres. Starting pitching was generally better during the latter part of… read more

The city of Cleveland just went through an extraordinary, yet busy weekend. Cleveland is no stranger to hosting big events. In the past 10 years the city has hosted the women’s basketball Final 4, The MLB and NBA all-star games, and the NFL draft, just to name a few. This weekend however, the city played… read more

The week started with a bang, as the Dash opened the series against Greensboro (59-42) with an 11-run outburst to beat the Grasshoppers in an 11-10 thriller. Winston-Salem remained strong throughout the week, taking four of six games against the team with the best overall record and run differential (+154) in the South Atlantic League.

After facing two of the best teams in baseball in the Philadelphia Phillies and Baltimore Orioles, the Cleveland Guardians ran into the hottest team in baseball: the Arizona Diamondbacks. The surprise winners of the National League last year, the Diamondbacks have heated up since the end of June. They beat Cleveland 7-6 last night. The… read more

The Knights and Dash had strong weeks, both finishing better than .500, but it was not so easy for the other affiliates. Drake Logan earned the weekly award for the system as a whole, but Edgar Quero, Noah Schultz, and DJ Gladney earned the awards for their respective teams, as each of those players excelled.

The mission for the Pirates coming into a three-game weekend series against the Diamondbacks at PNC Park had to be a sweep. With the first postseason tiebreaker now head-to-head matchups (the one-game playoff is a thing of the past thanks to the expanded postseason field), a sweep would have given Pittsburgh a 4-2 edge in… read more

Record 0-6 (last week) 52-50 (overall) 11-22 (second half) The Barons rode the struggle bus last week, and have been on that road most of the second half. In the past six games against the Montgomery Biscuits, Birmingham was outhit, 49-23 — and outscored, 28-4! The most Birmingham scored in a game was two runs… read more

Few rivalries in Major League Baseball have been able to bring the fireworks that the Rangers and Astros Silver Boot Showdown has provided over the last few years. Multiple benches-clearing brawls and the Rangers’ seven-game ALCS victory last October have blood boiling at an all-time high between the two squads from the Lone Star State…. read more