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With eight teams making it through the wild-card series, we ranked the survivors with an eye on what we learned in Round 1.

After a wild wild-card round, baseball gets back to business with the AL Division Series kicking off Monday.

Beyond the high stakes of the postseason, these teams (and their fans) don't like each other. We rank the series by their levels of animosity.

Austin Meadows is continuing his rehab from last month's oblique strain but the Rays are not saying yet whether he'll make the team's ALDS roster.

The connection between starter Gerrit Cole and catcher Kyle Higashioka, the Yankees' Game 1 battery, traces back to scout David Keith.

Washington Nationals pitching coach Paul Menhart will not be brought back next season, one year after the team's first World Series championship.

Big-money mistakes have kept baseball's best player's team out of the postseason. Can a new GM change that?

Former MLB pitcher Charles Haeger, sought in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend in a Phoenix suburb, was found dead Saturday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Grand Canyon, police said.

Catcher Francisco Cervelli announced his retirement in an Instagram post Saturday.

Ron Perranoski, the left-handed relief pitcher who helped the Dodgers win two titles in the 1960s, has died at age 84.

Mike Clevinger could return to the Padres during the NLDS, sources told ESPN's Pedro Gomez. The right-hander has been out after suffering an arm injury in a Sept. 23 start.

Matt Klentak has stepped down as general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, the team announced Saturday. Assistant GM Ned Rice will take over on an interim basis, and Klentak will be reassigned to another role with the team.

Police have probable cause to arrest former MLB player Charles Haeger on suspicion of murder and aggravated assault in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend in a Phoenix suburb on Friday.

We look at the top priorities for clubs that got an early start on their Hot Stove seasons.

San Diego used nine pitchers to finish off St. Louis, but it will be much harder to bank on that formula against L.A. in the NL Division Series.

Few pitchers intimidated hitters as regularly -- or wanted to win as badly -- as the Cardinals Hall of Famer.

St. Louis Cardinals great Bob Gibson, who was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his first year of eligibility, died Friday at age 84, the Cardinals confirmed to ESPN.

The Padres leaned on their relievers -- using nine pitchers, the most used in a nine-inning shutout in any big league game since 1901 -- to beat the Cardinals on Friday night and reach the NLDS.

The stacked Dodgers are World Series favorites. The dynamic Padres are led by the new face of baseball. This one's going to be fun.

After being sequestered, separated and insulted, the Marlins pulled together. Now their improbable trip to the postseason rolls on.