We’ve reached October after a thrilling regular season, and now will bear witness to baseball’s new 10-team playoff format, beginning with two one-game Wild Card playoff games leading into the Division Series. Here is a…
Who will break the playoff barrier this year? With roughly 40 games to go, it’s time to break down which teams on the American League bubble of the new 5-team field will join the postseason…
In his first at-bat following Major League Baseball’s All-Star break, former Palisades PPBA player Brennan Boesch laced a two-run single to give the Detroit Tigers a first-inning lead against the Baltimore Orioles last Friday. His…
MLB Draft Prospect Spotlight: Reds 4th-Rounder RHP Jon Moscot DA: Were you surprised that you were picked in the fourth round? JM: Before the draft, teams had told me somewhere in there. But the week before…
I love reading articles on teams well before a season begins, talking about whether they have done enough to finally get to the Super Bowl or the World Series or what have you. Pundits and…
Rainout May Aid Yankees and Red Sox After two emotionally draining games – more specifically, Saturday’s epic comeback by the Yankees and epic meltdown by the Red Sox – Sunday’s rainout may have been the…
Pacific Palisades brothers Tyler and Scott Heineman have been competitive as long as their parents can remember. But last week at UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium, that competition reached new, Division I heights. Playing against each…
I saw a Facebook post yesterday that had a picture of Eli Manning paying homage to the well-known Dos Equis ad for The Most Interesting Man in the World. As the commercial’s star says “I…
I was fortunate enough to get a couple minutes in a mini-scrum — actually, just me and an LA Times writer — with Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig at the World Children’s Baseball Fair…
It’s always tricky to examine “overrated” and “underrated”, but I will give it a try. Here is a list of the five most underrated and overrated starting pitchers in baseball, as based on public perception…