Baseball has no overtime; tied games go to extra innings. How extra innings work, the automatic runner rule in the MLB regular season, playoff rules and the longest games ever.
How often MLB players get paid: twice a month during the 186 day regular season and not in the offseason. Daily pay, sample paychecks, bonuses, playoff shares and minor league pay.
What minor league baseball coaches make: typically $35,000 to $70,000, with managers near $60,000 and top coordinators at $150,000 or more. Pay by role and how it compares.
How many baseballs are used in an MLB season: about 100 to 120 per game and roughly 260,000 per regular season. Why so many are used, how they are prepared and what happens to them.
How much MLB bullpen catchers make: typical salaries, how postseason shares can pay far more (the 2025 Dodgers’ full share was $484,748), and how it compares with players’ pay.
The MLB labor deal expires December 1, 2026, and a lockout is widely expected. What the CBA covers, the owners’ salary cap proposal, what a lockout means and every past work stoppage.
The longest World Series droughts in MLB: the Guardians have not won since 1948, 77 seasons. Every team’s last championship and how long they have waited.
Five MLB teams have never won a World Series: the Mariners, Padres, Brewers, Rays and Rockies. Seattle has never reached one, and three of the five are in the 2026 playoffs.
Every World Series winner by year from 1903 to 2025, with series results and losing teams. The Dodgers are the reigning champions and the Yankees have the most titles with 27.
What a Game 7 is in baseball, which MLB playoff rounds can have one, every recent World Series Game 7 and the greatest Game 7 moments, from Mazeroski to the 2025 Dodgers.