Tyler Kepner

Senior Writer, MLB

Tyler Kepner is a Senior Writer for The Athletic covering MLB. He previously worked for The New York Times, covering the Mets (2000-2001) and Yankees (2002-2009) and serving as national baseball columnist from 2010 to 2023. A Vanderbilt University graduate, he has covered the Angels for the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise and Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and began his career with a homemade baseball magazine in his native Philadelphia in the early 1990s. Tyler is the author of the best-selling “K: A History of Baseball In Ten Pitches” (2019) and “The Grandest Stage: A History of The World Series” (2022).

MLB Trade Grades: Rangers aim to stay competitive in adding Carson Kelly

Despite a losing record, the defending-champ Rangers are trying to stay in the hunt. Is that the smart thing to do?

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Marlins' Xavier Edwards hits for second cycle in team history

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MLB Trade Grades: Did Rays get enough for All-Star Isaac Paredes in trade with Cubs?

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Dave Dombrowski's biggest in-season trades, an AL West rival's farewell to Oakland and more 'Sliders'

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Marlins trade left-handed reliever A.J. Puk to Diamondbacks for prospects: Source

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A's place closer Mason Miller on injured list, trade availability in question

Miller broke his non-throwing hand in a training room accident earlier this week.

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At the 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame ceremony, reciprocal gratitude was everywhere

The class ‚ Jim Leyland, Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer — featured a beloved manager and three players with deep community bonds.

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Hall of Fame haul: On Main Street in Cooperstown, a treasure trove of trinkets for $100

How far does $100 go in the souvenir shops of Cooperstown? Like 'a trick-or-treater on a baseball sugar high', one writer went to find out.

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Revisiting Red Sox legend Dwight Evans' Hall of Fame credentials and more 'Sliders'

Plus more Cooperstown content, including a classic induction speech from Phil Rizzuto.

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Red Sox slugger Jarren Duran's big All-Star moment comes with a forever link to Ted Williams

Duran is the second Boston player to win the Ted Williams All-Star Game MVP award since the league named it for the Hall of Famer in 2002.

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Rob Manfred hints strongly at All-Star Game uniform changes for 2025

"It’s something we’re going to have a conversation about coming out of the All-Star Game,” Manfred said Tuesday.

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Paul Skenes’ moment: The NL All-Star starter takes MLB's summer stage

Skenes is perfect now, undefeated in 11 starts — two of them hitless — in his two-month major-league career with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Jim Leyland's 'springboard' job to becoming a major-league manager; plus more 'Sliders'

Before he became a Hall of Fame manager, Leyland coached on a White Sox staff that included a prolific group of baseball minds.

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Sliders' 2024 MLB All-Star picks, the baseball follow of the week and more

Plus memories from three All-Star Games in Cleveland and a Silver Slugger/MVP divide in this week's 'Off the Grid'

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MLB unveils 2024 All-Star uniforms, drawing derision from fans

For the fourth year, All-Stars will wear matching uniforms instead of individual team ones. Reaction to this year's version was negative.

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How Astros starter Ronel Blanco has kept the injury-plagued team from sinking

"He’s been an anchor in our rotation," Astros GM Dana Brown said. "With all of our guys going down, without him, we’d be in trouble."

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Sliders: In the age of 'Missing Bats,' this slow-throwing Dodgers pitcher is an outlier

Plus even more on Willie Mays' last MLB game and a throwback summer baseball blockbuster movie.

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Gerrit Cole's oddly historic outing is the latest concern for suddenly struggling Yankees

This was the first time ever in which a Yankees starting pitcher allowed four home runs while issuing four walks and striking out none.

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Catching up with Mike Piazza: Mets legend on Pete Alonso, Subway Series and life abroad

Alonso is like Piazza in 1998: A 29-year-old slugger, former Rookie of the Year and perennial All-Star facing a big payday in free agency.

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Who's the greatest living Hall of Famer now?

In the latest 'Sliders,' we also get knuckleball tips from Padres pitcher Matt Waldron and look back at Willie Mays' final game.

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'He was Willie Mays': Remembering the best player of the generation that electrified baseball

If you love the game, you’re grateful for Mays and all he brought to it.

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MLB City Connect: All 29 uniforms ranked, from the so-so to the sublime

Our panel of writers made a case for their favorites, discussing the good, the bad and the ugly of the complete MLB City Connect slate.

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The unsung bullpen fueling the first-place Milwaukee Brewers; plus more 'Sliders'

And an especially tricky Immaculate Grid category, even for diehard Reds fans.

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Sliders: The Twins are extreme strike-throwers. That’s a good thing, right?

Plus Ruben Amaro Jr.'s wisdom from time as a ball boy, player, GM, coach and now broadcaster.

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The Wizard’s wisdom: In tough era for the Cardinals, Ozzie Smith shines on

Now 69, Smith has become an elder statesman for a franchise that has lost many prominent alums in the past six years.

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