AL East Draft Grades: Jays, Not Rays, Get A’s
The 2014 Major League Baseball Draft is officially in our rear-view mirror, but the time to analyze is just beginning. It may take years for the picture to fully come into focus, but why not…
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2014 MLB Preview: East meets West in the Series?
You don’t always earn credibility for predicting the winners in sports. If you picked the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl this past season, kudos, but let’s face it, Seattle was hardly a shocker to…
Could the Yankees be This Year’s Red Sox?
Before we go any further, let me state for the record, on March 8, that I am not declaring that I think the Yankees will be world champions in 2014. Not yet, anyway. But it’s…
I Told You So: Why I Picked the Red Sox
Oh to be right. When you make preseason predictions and they come true, that doesn’t necessarily make you a genius. If you pick two heavy favorites and they clash in the Super Bowl, how prophetic…
2013 World Series: Destiny vs. Density?
So often, the Major League Baseball postseason shakes out differently than what the majority of fans anticipate. After all, the top seeds in each league haven’t met in the World Series since 1999, a rather…
MLB Team-by-Team MVPs
The 2013 MLB season is over (wait, really?). Actually, the League Championship Series rounds are about to start, meaning we’re about a month away from the annual BBWAA awards. While Clayton Kershaw, Miguel Cabrera and…
MLB Playoff Preview: First Round Analysis
Okay, so the MLB playoff teams are all but set. Of course, you had all of these teams in your preseason picks, didn’t you? No, wait, you had the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Angels, and Washington Nationals….
Baseball’s Most Underrated Players By Team
As baseball’s All-Star break approaches, MLB fans will soon get a glimpse of the game’s most recognizable stars, as voted on by the fans themselves. It’s a popularity contest, so the players on display are…
The John Farrell Effect: Unfortunately, It’s Real
When John Farrell began his arguably-traitorous path back to his dream job in Boston, my first thought was how it would affect both the Blue Jays’ and Red Sox’s pitching staffs. Through the first 30-plus…
Mid-Month Divisional Report
It’s mid-April, so obviously, it’s time to put the teams with baseball’s best records in the World Series. (In case you were wondering, had we done the same thing last April 16, it would have…