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 ...

The Phillies began the final full week of spring training by reassigning three more players to minor-league camp and releasing former first overall pick Mark Appel. Appel, who turns 32 this summer, ...

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 ...

Phillies minor-league pitcher Mark Appel says he is probably the biggest bust in MLB history as he takes an "indefinite break" from baseball just five years after the Houston Astros drafted him first ...