Boston Red Sox’s Jacoby Ellsbury reacts sliding back to first on a first-inning pickoff in a spring training baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., Sunday, March 24, 2013 ...

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here I pontificate about a matter related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

It's called baseball for a reason. The concept of a safe haven for voyagers on their way home provides the subtext for every game, and when we look out upon the field, we think we see the same three ...

For some reason, players just can’t help themselves. Yasiel Puig has missed the past two Dodgers games after suffering a thumb injury while sliding headfirst into first base. On Tuesday night, Josh ...

What do you do if you’re leading the world in stolen bases sliding head-first, and that’s the only way you’ve ever stolen a base? If you’re Dodgers second baseman Dee Gordon, you start doing the ...

Lakeland, Fla. — The way Brad Ausmus and Ian Kinsler see it, the league didn’t so much redefine what constitutes a legal slide as organize and clarify the definition on one. “It sounds like they’re ...

Javy Baez is raising the stakes when it comes to sliding technique. The Chicago Cubs slugger stole second base during the second inning of his team’s 8-4 win over the White Sox on Saturday. The throw ...