The Case Against The Windup
It’s what happens to windup pitchers once someone gets on base that often becomes a problem.
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World Series 2022: Who Will The Unlikely Hero Be This Year???
Every year, there’s a guy like Mark Lemke. And every year, no one sees him coming. And every year, the guy who is “unbeatable” couldn’t hit a ball with a hat rack. Baseball is easy to handicap…say people who don’t know squat about how the ebbs and flows of humanity cause games and series and entire seasons to either flounder
Read morePitch To The Man: A Story Of A Player Unafraid To Fail
Matt Barnes is now my favorite professional ball player named Matt Barnes. Granted, the bar was set pretty low.
Read moreThe Magical 61: A Number For Kings
For six decades, plus a year, Roger Maris has held the home run record. That record is in danger of finally falling.
Read moreOccasional Days Of Remembrance Are Not Enough To Address Issues Blacks in Baseball Faced Or Their Future In The Game
“…stop whitewashing the history, acting as if the story ended in 1947. And, MLB would do small but important things to bring back the connection to black fans so that the interest spreads to the talented among us. “
Read more62: Baseball’s New Magic Number?
Wins are hard to get nowadays. Pitchers are pulled from games earlier and earlier. According to Bleacher Report, there were 734 complete games in 1982. We are on pace this year for…four
Read moreMLB 2022 Quarter Pole: Astros
Still enough in the tank to make another road trip to the postseason? The Houston Astros should be looking at the possibility that time is running out on the most successful run in team history. George Springer, Marwin Gonzales, Carlos Correa, and Gerritt Cole are all gone. Jose Altuve, Yuli Gurriel, Alex Bregman and Michael Brantley remain. Will the new
Read moreIt Was Perfect…Until It Wasn’t
Or, how an over-protective manager robbed a player of a chance at immortality. Of course Dodger manager Dave Roberts should have pulled Clayton Kershaw from the game after 80 pitches and a perfect game after seven innings. After all…um…nope. What I mean to say is, it’s better for Kershaw to be denied the opp…ur…nuh uh. Let’s try…cooler heads will prevail
Read moreA Career So Sweet…But Too Short For The Hall?
Bob Moffitt: (Posey was) rookie of the Year, MVP, 7-time All Star in 10 full years in the field, four Silver Sluggers, one Gold Glove,
Steve Harmon: Not arguing at all that he wasn’t great, that he accumulated all that platinum. But one thing he didn’t accumulate were the numbers. I’m sorry, but 1,500 hits and 153 home runs – even for a catcher.
World Series 2021: Braves Vs Astros
Yes, they Braves are hot, but I don’t know if Atlanta is the second coming of the Minnesota Twins.
Read moreFendley Dives Deep: Houston vs Chicago, September 28, 1995
What’s the record for blown saves in a game by one team? Better question. How can you not know?
Read moreIowa? We could have sworn this was Heaven.
Two baseball scribes return to their roots to celebrate the game of baseball and a pretty magical movie.
Read moreHarmon Notebook: On Coddling Pitchers, The Baseball God Hisself Not Happy With 100-pitch Counts
Every single year, he registered exactly zero (0) complete games. I mean, talk about pushing him beyond his limits!
Read moreBaseball Is Teetering On Boredom. Here’s How To Fix It.
(Bunting is) another lost art, yet another skill that has been swallowed up faster than a mom-and-pop wiped out by a new big-box store.
Read moreFraternization, the Black Sox and Blood in the Hay
It was fun but you had to have thick skin. “For Chissake Gaffney you just cost me 75 cents,” someone groused after the 14 year old served up a three-run gopher ball. We noticed the “House” was doing pretty well.
Read moreDo The Right Thing… Unless It’s Not Reviewable
Good play or cheating… or failure by everyone responsible for getting a simple, stupid call correct?
Read moreMike Yastrzemksi’s Big Fly Would Have Fallen Flat If Not For Grandpa’s ’67 Squad That Saved Fenway
Boston fans welcomed Carl Yastrzemski’s grandson with open arms … as the enemy. It’s a bit of sportsmanship saved only for a place that appreciates its history in a historic place … a place that wouldn’t be here without the 1967 Red Sox.
Read moreUmps and pitch counts: how both conspired to make World Series Game 6 frustrating to watch
The game of baseball is based on failure. But some failures are avoidable. The tone is set early in Game 6 of the World Series as home plate umpire Lance Barksdale does not call the low strike to Philadelphia Philly, Kyle Schwarber. I have umpired. To me, it is the most difficult pitch to call, which is why I have
Read moreThe Amazing Numbers Crunching Manager
With the knowledge that this first number-crunching move of yanking the starter even while he is effective has failed, (Roberts) now has to adapt.
Read moreRemembering Vin Scully
Vin Scully was the voice for six generations of baseball fans, including mine. Baseball greats have come and gone and more will do the same. Though we will contemplate their greatness, there are a few that resonate with us for one reason or another. Growing up in the tiny town of Mariposa, California, we had the Saturday Major League Baseball
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