Okay, it’s late March and somehow, baseball is here! We’re officially underway, but since I’m not picking the Mariners or Athletics to do anything worthwhile this year, their Japan games are trees falling in the…
Can you believe it’s been five years since an AL East team represented the Junior Circuit in the Fall Classic? That would be the Red Sox, of course, in 2013, and it’s crazy to think…
Doesn’t it feel like the baseball season just started yesterday? It was a blink of an eye ago that the season kicked off on a Thursday in March, and now we’re down to four clubs…
I had to use the air quotes. I just had to. It’s the rivalry that gets more attention than it should, the one that the earth stands still for. And best of all, it gets…
Much like a newspaper when they regret an error they’ve made in publication, I feel the need to correct myself. One month ago, I wrote this article on the Yankees being a shoo-in for the…
This is always fun. After all, it’s been a quiet few days with the All-Star break (although what a game it was, plus the Manny Machado trade). But with the 2018 Fall Classic still three…
Let me lay this out right off the bat: this 2018 MLB season, in many ways, has been brutal to watch. For all the dreams of parity the 2015, 2016, and 2017 seasons inspired, 2018…
Let’s face it: the American League Central is a done deal. But outside of that, the other five divisions in Major League Baseball all have intrigue and, subsequently, figure to come down to at least…
As I did in my preseason predictions, I am pushing all my chips to the center of the table on the franchise that is just about as consistent as death and taxes. The 2018 New…
It’s a theme that has circulated the sports spectrum before. A cast-off member of a rising team basks in his one shining moment against the club that unceremoniously ditched him, only to ultimately watch that…