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 ...

Nine years after the Houston Astros drafted Mark Appel at No. 1 overall, the 30-year-old pitcher finally made his big league debut. Pitching for the Phillies, Appel tossed a scoreless ninth inning in ...

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 ...

Appel was called up by the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, nine years after he was drafted first overall by Houston. In between, he bounced around the minors, was traded in the 2015 deal that sent ...

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 ...