2023 San Diego Padres First Look
This could be one of those teams that has an offensive surge in the second half and wins 55 games. Or, the offense comes alive and the pitching falls apart and they win 35.
Read moreDodgers 2023 First Look
You can’t lose Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, and Alex Verdugo without it catching up to you eventually, especially if Mookie Betts is trying too hard to carry the load and the Swiss Army Knives like Chris Taylor aren’t hitting. The bullpen is full of gas cans. We don’t know how long this is going to last but we do know this is going to be painful, at least for a little bit.
Read more2023 First Look: Are The Diamondbacks For Real?
Maybe the 2023 Diamondbacks are a flash in the pan, maybe not. Regardless they have already racked up enough wins to make their August and September games meaningful.
Read moreThese Ain’t Weaver’s Orioles, But They Ain’t Bad
Not surprisingly, they have started off well (26-14). But after looking at the numbers, it is really shocking how they are doing it.
Read moreTampa Bay Rays 2023 Season Outlook
The experts say there’s no way Tampa Bay can continue winning with what they have, and every year Tampa Bay proves them wrong.
Read more2023 First Look: Blue Jays
The question for Toronto is, do baby giraffes like domed stadiums?
The Jays also have hopes for another player with a pretty good nickname, Daulton “Little Wheels” Varsho.
Read moreIt’s A Bill G Stream-Of-Consciousness Opening D!
A’s marking time until new stadium or move Giants can’t retain players -no help from minors Mariners back to reality and sub 500 Angels can’t win with two best players -another non playoff season Astros solid everywhere back to the WS Guardians came together last year -play well as a team Tigers keep hoping for a renaissance like the city
Read moreThe Case Against The Windup
It’s what happens to windup pitchers once someone gets on base that often becomes a problem.
Read moreWorld 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 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 moreGood teams get better players. Bad teams fire their managers.
…(San Francisco Giants) management decided three games remaining was the best time to cut (manager Gabe Kapler) loose. But it seems they did so without knowing why.
Read moreYankees 2023 Season Preview
The New York Yankees thought they had strengthened their rotation in the off-season by adding Carlos Rodon. Funny thing about adding injury-plagued players after one good year…the injuries seem to come back. Rodon starts the year on the injured list with forearm and back issues. Last year he went 14-8 with a 2.88 ERA and 1.03 WHIP for the San
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
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