SAN FRANCISCO — No major-league catcher is better at framing pitches and coaxing borderline strike calls than Patrick Bailey.

Featured in the final MLB Power Rankings of the season, the playoff picture is finally coming into focus, the Tigers and Mets are flirting with the wrong kind of history, baseball is fun in the state ...

The Colorado Rockies didn’t even make it to September before their fate was sealed. With a 4-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado officially became the first team in MLB this season to be ...

I get nervous. Every game. People who say they don’t get nervous are either lying, or they’re José Ramírez. I don’t know if ...

Remember when the Detroit Tigers were the best team in baseball for a good portion of the first half of the season? At several points, they were on pace for one of the best records in franchise ...

After a 5-1 week, the Detroit Tigers are climbing back up the MLB power rankings of many national outlets. The Tigers recorded their first sub-.500 month in July (11-14), but have been red hot in ...

Major League Baseball power rankings have become the Milwaukee Brewers' world. The other 29 teams are just living in it. After not losing a game in August until the 17th day of the month, national ...

Generally speaking, I start eyeing a topic for the Power Rankings intro around Friday. Last Sunday, though, I told myself one thing was off-limits: I'm not writing on the Brewers again. I had done so ...

The streak is over. But its ramifications will live on for months. Finally, after free burgers and tearful tributes and two weeks that cemented their status as the game's best club, the Milwaukee ...

Another week of MLB Power Rankings means another week of Milwaukee atop our list, as the Brewers are still rolling along as the best team in baseball, though might be slowing down after dropping three ...

Guess it was fun while it lasted. The Padres walked into Chavez Ravine in first place in the NL West in August for the first time in 2010 and immediately gave the division lead back to the Dodgers.

Last week delivered mixed results for the Houston Astros, who suffered a sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers in a measuring-stick type of series before taking three of four from a depleted ...