American League West 2019 Midseason Report: Competitive For What Purpose Exactly?
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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Two Good Bullpens, Two Bad Bullpens, Wildly Unexpected Results, And A Nationals Resurrection
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.
Read moreAL West 2019 Prediction: It’s A Mad Scramble For Second
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
Read moreAL West: Buy, Sell Or Crawl In A Corner?
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.
Read more2018 MLB American League West Preview
Houston could be baseball’s only 100-win team, says the author. Photo by Eric Drost via Flickr
Read moreHardball Theatre: Party Crashers
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.
Read moreDepartment of Statistical Anomalies: Texas Rangers Division
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
Read moreHardball Theatre: Tex Slide Story
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.
Read moreSpecial Disappointment Supplement … The 2001 Texas Rangers
It’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
Read moreThe Most Disappointing Season For…The Texas Rangers (nee Washington Senators)
When the Griffith family moved the Senators to Minneapolis (becoming the Twins) at the end of 1960, the AL decided to get another team in the Nation’s Capital. The new Senators were a slap-dash affair with poor management, poor ownership, and no fan support.
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