2020 MLB Preview: Texas Rangers
Steal away Rangers! With no pitching prospects in MLB’s top 100, and a bunch of questions in the batter’s box, they’ve got nothing to lose.
Read moreSteal away Rangers! With no pitching prospects in MLB’s top 100, and a bunch of questions in the batter’s box, they’ve got nothing to lose.
Read moreSurprises in the west have made the season a lot more intriguing. But in the end, how much does it matter?
Read moreThat is not the sound of the bullpen gate opening. That is the sound of winning…or broken dreams. But there are a couple of teams pulling out wins despite having highly-flammable material coming into the game.
Read moreThe American League West could be the nuttiest in baseball. After the Oakland Athletics came out of nowhere to claim a playoff berth, albeit a short-lived berth, the question this year is can they do it again? Okay, I lied. There are multiple questions like, “Are the Mariners better off without Robinson Cano and or James Paxton? When will and
Read moreThe Seattle Mariners are the 2018 Cinderella story for Major League Baseball…or their luck is due to run out and they should get every prospect they can now before it all comes crashing down.
Read moreHouston could be baseball’s only 100-win team, says the author. Photo by Eric Drost via Flickr
Read moreKeith 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.
Read moreOf all of the ‘new fangled’ stats (so new that I read about many of them in the 80’s), one of the ones that’s seemingly accepted is the Pythagorean Record. In essence, it’s an estimation of a team’s record given their runs scored and runs against in a number of games. It started out as a very simple formula that
Read moreKeith Good’s weekly one-act, an SNL-meets-MLB take on the week in baseball. This week, Rougned Odor discovers the theatrics and choreography of a bench-clearing brawl.
Read moreIt’s not that Alex Rodriguez didn’t deserve to be among the highest paid player in baseball going into the 2001 season. He definitely deserved consideration for being the top dog in terms of dollars. His WORST season was 1997, where he had just a 120 OPS+, 5.6 WAR and only 23 home runs. His worst WAR season was 1999, when
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