Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports The playoffs on Tuesday, and we are going to cover every single game, from the Wild Card round to the World Series. But those games are played by humans, and those humans have to find a way to avoid murdering each other over the course of a very long season. Inventing…
(Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) The Baltimore Orioles are having an incredible season. Everything seems to be going perfectly for them. Not only have they won 100 games this year, but they won the AL East title. On the field, this team has been elite and that is due to many years of drafting…
(Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images) At the beginning of September, the Chicago Cubs looked like a lock to be playing in the postseason. They were playing some of the best baseball of the year and were in contention to win the NL Central. But over the final month of the season, the wheels have…
(Photo by Lauren Leigh Bacho/Getty Images) The Miami Marlins can smell a postseason berth. Despite a few unfortunate rain events over the past week, they continue to keep their playoff hopes alive. Miami had to play a doubleheader on Wednesday and had a game suspended on Thursday. Yet, they did not let them stop…
Back in August, my colleague Ben Clemens crafted an article titled Wait, Zack Littell is a Starter Now?! It was an apt headline. Not only had the 27-year-old right-hander been DFA’d by the Red Sox a few months earlier — Boston having been his third organization in as many years, and his sixth overall —…
(Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images) The Detroit Tigers are finishing up a tough season this weekend. Even though they will not be in the playoffs, they can celebrate the final few games of Miguel Cabrera’s career. The future Hall of Famer spent 16 years with the Tigers and has put up some monster numbers….
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether Ronald Acuña Jr.’s historic strikeout-rate reduction is as impressive as his historic power-speed combination, the Acuña-Mookie Betts NL MVP race, the enduring defensive excellence of the late Brooks Robinson, Josh Hader’s insistence on one-inning outings and the degree to which players should dictate their own usage, the…
(Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) The Kansas City Royals have not been good this season. But that was to be expected with the look of their roster. Kansas City has the second-worst record in baseball at 55-105. Despite the record, it is not all bad in Kansas City. They have one of the best…
Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports It’s one thing to join a club, but it’s another thing to start your own club entirely. That goes doubly so when the requirements to enter your club are harder to obtain than a liquor license in 1928. Ronald Acuña Jr. had already earned his 40–40 membership last Friday. That was…
(Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images) MLB is different from many other leagues as they have no salary cap. That means teams can spend whatever they want on players but need to pay a tax if they go over certain thresholds. It is fair to expect that the teams who spend the most money will…
