Season Preview: American League Central
Opening Day is here and 25-man rosters have been set. It seems as good a time as any to start to preview the upcoming season. For a change of pace, I’m going to run with a bit of a different format...
View ArticleBook Review: Baseball Fantography
Most baseball writers such as myself aren’t paid for the bulk of their work. Most of us are continually trying to build and maintain a consistent audience, with the hope that someday we might make some...
View ArticleMLB to Allow Interpreters on Pitcher’s Mounds
A recent proposal to allow interpreters to follow coaches to the pitcher’s mound is not completely unprecedented. In countries like South Korea and Japan, interpreters have been part of coaches...
View ArticleIs Major League Baseball’s Longevity in Question?
2013 will mark the first time in 17 years that not a single player received the required amount of votes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and the first time since 1965 that none of the inductees...
View ArticleSt. Louis Cardinals Prospect Oscar Taveras Gears Up for the Major Leagues
Oscar Taveras, the top prospect for the St. Louis Cardinals, made sports news headlines when he switched his agent for the 2013 season from Melvin Toman to Rob Plummer. Plummer now manages the top...
View ArticleThe 2012 NL East in Retrospect
This article is part of the series "2013 in the Major Leagues: The Shoot-Outs in the East". By the mid-point of the 2012 season, the pennant of the NL East was pretty much a two horse race between the...
View ArticleThe 2013 NL East Offseason
This article is part of the series "2013 in the Major Leagues: The Shoot-Outs in the East". November of 2012 through February of 2013 has proven to be an exciting offseason in terms of regrouping for...
View ArticleThe 2012 AL East in Retrospect
It was no surprise that the race for the AL East pennant was a close one, but who made it close wasn't necessarily what baseball fans expected. Sure, the Yankees are about as close to a shoe-in for...
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