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We’re sure you’ve heard, but the game you love is getting a few updates this season: a pitch timer, bigger bases, and defensive shift restrictions.

Which might have you asking … What’s going on with these rule changes?

We answer all that and more in the most recent episode of our MLB Original explainer series: Quick Question. Featuring interviews with Rajai Davis and Theo Epstein, we’ll deep dive into the three new rules, how they came to be, and where they’re taking the future of baseball.

With the season upon us, it’s time for Will Leitch and Mike Petriello to conduct their annual World Series draft. The approach here is simple: Rank the teams in order of how likely you think they are to win the World Series this year.

As things look now, 14 of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 prospects are scheduled to open 2023 in the Majors. Find out where to find your team’s best phenoms when the season begins.

Joey Votto gets a welcome introduction to the new shift regulations … and learns something new in the process.

Michael Massey, Vinnie Pasquantino, MJ Melendez and Kyle Isbel spent their free afternoon riding roller coasters and playing carnival games.

It takes more than five starting pitchers to get through a season. Last year, every team used at least eight and only two made it through with fewer than 10. So we went six deep to come up with these rankings.

MLB Network looks ahead to the 2023 season with the American League at 6 p.m. ET, followed by the National League at 7.

It’s Yankees vs. Nationals at noon ET, White Sox vs. Cubs at 3, and Dodgers vs. Angels at 9 on MLB Network.

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