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Baseball may be a young man’s game, but the grizzled veterans can still show the phenoms a thing or two. Just look at Albert Pujols last year, when he seemed to play about 10 years younger than he actually was. He looked so good that we wondered if he might put off retirement for another year and come back for one more go ’round with the Cardinals in 2023.

Alas, he stuck to his plan to hang ’em up and thus passed the title of MLB’s oldest player on to Rich Hill, who’ll toe the rubber for the Pirates at age 43. See who else is defying Father Time as Will Leitch takes his annual look at the 10 oldest players in MLB.

While baseball isn’t the country’s No. 1 sport, the Netherlands has turned into one of the strongest European forces on the diamond. Its Kingdom also extends to relatively recent baseball hotbeds like Curaçao and Aruba.

Before he was shutting down batters as a closer, Kenley Jansen was cutting down baserunners for the Netherlands.

Scott Rolen got his first tangible glimpse of immortality when he found himself in an oak-walled hall in Cooperstown. “That’s a whole world of baseball greatness that’s unbelievable,” he said.

Which fireman will extinguish the most rallies? There’s a good chance it’s one of these guys.

Lauren Shehadi and Carlos Pena are at Yankees camp while Greg Amsinger and Dan Plesac are at Angels camp bringing you the latest news, player interviews and more.

The Brew Crew travels to Tempe to take on the Halos in a Cactus League matchup live at 2 p.m. ET.

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