2026 Preview: N.L. Central
One NL Central team is the result of four years of drafting and trading at the minor league level. There are so many questions. The price of experience will be steep. A 70-win should be considered a success.
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2025 Playoff Preview
Advertisements When picking a postseason winner, do you look for the team on the hot streak or the team that has been the most consistent throughout the year? This year, in both the American and National League you get both in the Milwaukee Brewers (NL) and the Toronto Blue Jays in the (AL). Milwaukee‘s combination of hitting and pitching led
Read moreEgo Over Team For Devers In Boston
Boston Red Sox fans should be celebrating the signing of All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman. Bregman has been workmanlike and occasionally unstoppable during his career with the Houston Astros. But Sox fans are now full of worry. Might Bregman not fit in because of an ego issue?
Read moreMLB Playoff Predictions 2016
It’s been a crazy year. A gorilla kills just one small child and gets the death penalty. Hulk Hogan has to get on a witness stand. David Bowie, Prince, and half of the entertainment world die. Donald J. Trump becomes President. The Cubs and Red Sox are in the mix for the World Series. Andy Smith hosts a staff party preview of the postseason.
Read moreTime to Jettison Some Of Baseball’s New Rules
It’s time for Major League Baseball to truly get into the 21st Century, with a bow to its storied past, and make changes that make sense.
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 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 morePitch Count? We Don’t Need a Stinkin’ Pitch Count!
Advertisements Sometimes a game is so full of badness, it ends up being great, like this little ditty from 1974. I enjoy baseball Twitter, especially the posts of statistical oddities and whatnot. These tweets, by people such as Doug Kern, Mark Simon, or Jayson Stark (among others) usually take the form of “The Reds haven’t hit four batters in an
Read moreN.L. Central Prediction: Chicago Cubs
They are in a great position to trade for somebody’s number-one starter specially if that somebody is thinking about rebuilding. Without that…
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