Under one set of proposed new rules, if a player is identified as a pull hitter, the entire defense must employ a reverse shift to the opposite field’s sideline. This bit of reparations will hopefully undo the last several years during which pull hitters were unfairly labeled “not as good” as hitters who could hit the ball all over the park.
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.
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Surprises in the west have made the season a lot more intriguing. But in the end, how much does it matter?
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That 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.
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The 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
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The 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.
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Houston could be baseball’s only 100-win team, says the author. Photo by Eric Drost via Flickr
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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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Of 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
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Keith 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.
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