Chicago Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner had surgery on his right hand after the season ended. The 27-year-old Hoerner had ...

Kyle Schwarber hit 15 leadoff home runs for Philadelphia and set the record for the most homers from the No.1 spot in a season. Despite his success, Phillies manager Rob Thomson said that if ...

Torres, 27, has manned the leadoff spot in each of New York’s first six postseason games, posting a .292/.433/.500 batting line with a 170 wRC+ and scoring seven of the team’s 25 runs.

Nico Hoerner was the only player at the position with more than 24 steals and a .270 or better batting average, and he had just seven homers and 48 steals; Jose Altuve, Luis Garcia, Tyler ...

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Per ESPN's Jesse Rogers, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Shohei Ohtani will stay in the leadoff spot for Los Angeles despite posting better numbers with runners on base. Ohtani is 0-for-19 with ...

He started the season as their leadoff hitter but struggled and was quickly displaced from that spot in the offense, but a late surge that has carried into October has changed everything.

On May 18, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza (whose team was 20-24 at that point) decided to put Lindor in the leadoff spot for the first time all year. And an October 15 article from MLB.com's ...

Still, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said there is no plan to move him out of the leadoff spot where he hit in 90 of the team’s regular-season games and all of their seven postseason ones.

Ohtani is 0-for-19 with the bases empty but 6-for-8 with men on while batting leadoff during the playoffs. "It's just funny how things change, where there was a lot of concern about Shohei not ...

Schwarber hit 38 home runs in the regular season, including 15 from the leadoff spot. He has 21 career playoff home runs in 66 games.