What are your feelings on the wild card one-game playoff? It’s a half-decade old now, and there are mixed feelings. I personally can’t say it’s a bad thing, although I would be in favor of…
August 1 came and went, and in less than a week we are already witnessing a change in baseball’s landscape. While some big trades garnered most of the headlines, it may be the injury bug…
The great mystery lingers as to what will happen by the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. Will the Red Sox keep beefing up? Will the Yankees be sellers? Will upstart contenders like the Indians, Cubs,…
It’s that awkward time of the year when some teams have to make brutally tough decisions on whether to buy or sell at the trade deadline. There will be no more grueling of a decision…
Aside from the fact that I get to use the term “shenanigans” in this article’s headline — one of my all-time favorite words — it is seriously time to end the All-Star Game homefield advantage…
Every MLB team has played more than 81 games, so technically the second half is underway. But post-All-Star break baseball is considered the second half because each team has had a few days to nurture…
Just another, ho-hum, gargantuan ninth-inning rally… On Thursday, the Detroit Tigers put up an eight-spot in the ninth for the first time in 94 years, stunning the Tampa Bay Rays in a 10-7 win. The…
They were my preseason pick to win the American League pennant. Even so, there was reason to be skeptical. The Texas Rangers were coming off a bounce-back year in which they captured the AL West…
It’s almost July, and we still don’t know too much more than we did at the end of last month. But a few teams are starting to create separation, including in the hotly-contested American League…
The comparisons were inevitable – the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors are basketball’s version of the 2007 New England Patriots and, thus, LeBron James is the Eli Manning of the NBA. Or something like that. But…