Tyler Kepner

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Tyler Kepner

The polls have closed. The winners are plotting their agendas. The losers are drafting their concessions. With 100 percent of precincts reporting and more than 12,000 votes tallied, The Athletic is ready to call the MLB All-Quarter Century Team for the following players who have dominated the 2000s:Jose Altuve. Adrián Beltré. Barry Bonds. Trevor Hoffman. Derek Jeter. Randy Johnson. Clayton Kershaw. Pedro Martinez. Shohei Ohtani. Buster Posey. Albert Pujols. Mariano Rivera. Max Scherzer. Ichiro Suzuki.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Tyler Kepner

Durability and dominance are the twin pillars of pitching greatness. Prevent runs for a long time while humbling the world's greatest hitters: Few have ever done it better than Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sometime soon, Kershaw will record his 3,000th career strikeout. On Wednesday, in his third start of the season, Kershaw fanned three Cleveland Guardians to push his total to 2,974. His career earned run average is 2.51.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Tyler Kepner

Share Anthony Iapoce loves to read biographies, at least for a while.“After the beginning or middle of the book, I’m good because I already know the rest of the story,” said Iapoce, the first-base coach for the Detroit Tigers. “I want to know where did it start and how did they get there?”Iapoce, a former minor-league outfielder, has spent two decades coaching, including stints in the majors with the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Tigers.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Tyler Kepner

Anthony Iapoce loves to read biographies, at least for a while. "After the beginning or middle of the book, I'm good because I already know the rest of the story," said Iapoce, the first-base coach for the Detroit Tigers. "I want to know where did it start and how did they get there?"Iapoce, a former minor-league outfielder, has spent two decades coaching, including stints in the majors with the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Tigers.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Tyler Kepner

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of baseball. When Rhys Hoskins joined the Milwaukee Brewers before last season, manager Pat Murphy gave him a new nickname: Pee Wee. The Brewers list Hoskins at 6-foot-4 and 241 pounds, but his first name sounds like "Reese," like the Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese ... get it? Yeah. It didn't stick. "That's kind of fallen by the wayside this year," Hoskins said by phone on Thursday.