Closers in Major League Baseball have the highest leverage job in all of baseball. As a position player, there are times in your career where you are the last at bat in a huge spot that makes history but that environment is not what you expect every time you come to the plate. As a starter or middle reliever, there are high stakes scenarios that … Continue reading The Curious Life of MLB Closers
The Major League Baseball season is nearing its end and the playoff picture is becoming more clear across the league. Well mostly, because the American League Wild Card spots are far from settled. There are six teams that could make the playoffs by way of a wild card and in that league with just around with around 25 games left to play. It’s a good … Continue reading AL Wild Card Spots Are Wide Open
The World Baseball Classic is a tournament that takes place every four years with teams from around the world. The last tournament took place in 2017 and as happened with everything else, the next iteration that was supposed to be played in 2021, was moved to 2023. The 2017 tournament brought a lot of attention and was a rousing success by all accounts. The first … Continue reading World Baseball Classic is Back in a Big Way
Adam Wainwright is one of the best pitchers in MLB over the last decade-plus. As is expected with players who have played for any length of time, injuries crop up and take you out, you have difficult seasons where it just won’t go right. That has happened to Wainwright for sure, losing nearly three full seasons over the last 17 years with the St. Louis … Continue reading Wainwright is Defying Time
Fernando Tatis Jr. made headlines on Friday after he was suspended 80 games for violating the MLB Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. His excuse was that he used a steroid to treat ringworm and did not know that it contained a banned substance. Regardless of what your opinion may be on the matter, the larger picture of punishments in MLB is confusing at best. Past … Continue reading MLB Punishments Don’t Make Sense
The MLB Draft is arguably the toughest to predict because of the nature of the sport. Players are drafted out of high school or college and spend years kicking around in the minor leagues before making it to the majors. That means that there is so much time for things to go wrong before a player even sees a major league field and that is … Continue reading MLBs Best Drafting Teams
Jesse Chavez is a 38 year old right handed pitcher that owns the title of the most traded player in MLB history. Over 15 seasons, Chavez has been involved in 18 transactions where he has switched teams including being drafted, traded, claimed, or signed. But some teams have an affinity for him and brought him back multiple times, giving him nine different employers across his … Continue reading The Most Traded Man in MLB
Major League Baseball has itself a problem. No, it’s not that the game is “dying,” it’s not. The problem is that in every other major sport, the draft is a spectacle made up of well-known athletes and in baseball, that is not the case. The MLB Draft is just as important for its sport as any other league but if you asked the average sports … Continue reading The MLB Draft Predicament
The MLB All-Star Game (ASG) is today, the WNBA ASG happened the other day and most everyones initial thought is, “who cares?” The 1933 MLB ASG was the first of its kind and was such a hit, that every major professional sports league in the U.S. has followed suit since then. Back in the first few decades it was actually something of a game, some … Continue reading All-Star Games Have Run Their Course
The Yankees have 27 World Series trophies, more than any other team in MLB, but none in the last 12 years. A number of those 27 trophies were bought by way of high dollar free agents that pushed the Yankees payroll to unbelievable heights that only that team could handle. Simply buying the best available players at whatever pricetag was the Yankee way of life … Continue reading The Yankees “Win Now” Method Hasn’t Won Much Lately
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