Good news for the Phillies: they beat Miami even with designated hitter Bryce Harper hitting .169 and neither he nor Nick Castellanos had a home run. Bad news: Castellanos is a .194 career postseason hitter (fun fact: Castellanos ended the season with no errors in right field). Schwarber hit 47 home runs to lead the club and nine players had
Read moreEven with a hideous bullpen ERA and the 12 blown saves that went with it, Philadelphia still managed to finish just two games below .500 which is kind of amazing.
Read moreOffensively they have a few weapons that are capable of mass destruction… or of jamming when you need them most.
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How good is the Rockies’ signing of Nolan Arenado? The best player out of the big three to sign this week did the right thing by himself, his team and their fans.
Read moreSure the Dodgers cleared room for Bryce Harper. But is Harper going to L.A. the best thing for the Dodgers? For Harper? For Major League Baseball?
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So, somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 games ago, one wag (that’s old-timer for smart-alec punk) dismissed the entire National League East except Washington, who was guaranteed to “sleep walk through the division.” Little problem with that. Washington has been asleep alright, but not winning at any particularly rapid pace and has been far behind just about everyone in the
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Keith Good’s weekly(ish) One Act, an SNL-meets-MLB look at the week in baseball. This week, Detroit and St. Louis are surprised to find they’re not invited to the 2016 Playoff party.
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Alex Rodriguez’s retirement marks the end of baseball’s funnest era: the days of the swashbuckling ballplayer who lived out his personal life on the back pages.
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You want that on a roll or with crackers?
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However, recently ESPN went overboard by ranking Bryce Harper as the 85th best player of all-time – an honor that is so obviously rooted in potential than actual production.
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