Mark Appel, the 2013 No. 1 overall pick whose baseball career included a three-season absence from the sport, is getting his first major league call-up Saturday at age 30. The Philadelphia Phillies ...

Mark Appel and his advisor Scott Boras believe that he is worth more than the $3.8 million the Pittsburgh Pirates were reportedly offering him to sign. They're so confident, in fact, that they're ...

A baseball oddity that played out in the Quad-Cities five summers ago came to an end this week. Pitcher Mark Appel, selected by the Astros with the first overall pick in baseball’s 2013 draft, has ...