A Triple Crown in baseball is when one player leads their league in all three offensive categories — batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBIs) — in the same season. It’s one of the rarest feats in all of sports. Across baseball history (including MLB, Negro Leagues, and other major leagues), it has … Read more
The hardest baseball positions to play in order are: pitcher, catcher, shortstop, third base, center field, second base, first base, left field, and right field. The top 3 — pitcher, catcher, shortstop — are considered the most demanding in baseball, with pitcher and catcher essentially controlling the entire game and shortstop the most athletically demanding … Read more
Major League Baseball drew 71,409,421 total fans across the 2025 regular season — the third straight year over 70 million and the longest growth streak since 2005-2007. The Los Angeles Dodgers led MLB for the 13th straight year with 4,012,470 total fans (49,537 per game), passing 4 million for the first time in franchise history … Read more
A baseball bat costs anywhere from $25 for an entry-level tee ball bat to $500+ for a top-tier BBCOR composite bat. The two biggest price factors are the league certification (Tee Ball, USA, USSSA, BBCOR, or wood) and the bat technology tier (entry-level alloy, premium composite, or pro-grade wood). The average parent buying a 2026 … Read more
Exit velocity is the speed of the ball off the bat at contact, measured in mph. The average 10-year-old hits a ball around 50 mph; the average high school senior 82-90 mph; the average MLB hitter posts 88-89 mph with hard-hit balls at 95+ mph. The all-time Statcast max is Aaron Judge’s 122.4 mph in … Read more
An official MLB baseball costs approximately $7 to produce at the Rawlings factory in Costa Rica. At retail, the same Rawlings ROMLB sells for $19.95 directly from Rawlings, $25 from most major retailers, and $30-$50 at ballparks. MLB uses approximately 108 baseballs per game (9 dozen average), which adds up to roughly 262,000 baseballs across … Read more
A balk in baseball is an illegal motion by a pitcher with runners on base. There are 13 official balk rules in the MLB rulebook (Rule 6.02a), and any one of them — caught by an umpire — automatically advances every runner one base. The most common balk is failing to come to a complete … Read more
The greatest closer of all time is Mariano Rivera — a debate so settled that he became the first unanimous Hall of Fame selection in baseball history (425 of 425 votes in 2019). Rivera retired in 2013 with 652 career saves, the all-time record. Behind Rivera, the top closers ever include Trevor Hoffman (601 saves, … Read more
The fastest MLB player ever measured by Statcast is Tim Locastro, who recorded a 30.8 feet-per-second sprint speed in 2019 — the highest single-season average since Statcast began tracking in 2015. The current active sprint speed leader is Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals at 30.5 ft/sec. The all-time stolen base leader is … Read more
The most home runs ever hit in a single MLB season is 73 by Barry Bonds in 2001 — the official record set during baseball’s PED era. The “clean” home run record is held by Aaron Judge, who hit 62 home runs in 2022 to break Roger Maris’s American League record of 61 set in … Read more