Four years into his professional career, Oakland’s Jose Torres was still a project. He’d shown some feel for pitching, but his mechanics were messy and his numbers had gone backward in his second spin ...

Harper (elbow) hit soft toss Thursday in Phillies camp, Todd Zolecki of MLB.com reports. It's another step forward for Harper, who had been limited to tee work since he arrived at the Phillies' spring ...

On a mid-March Sunday, 50 spectators or so have gathered on a grass berm beside a baseball field. Most of the crowd are writers or team personnel, here to watch Eddie Butler and Peter O’Brien. Mark ...