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…
Is Baseball Eclipsing Football in Parity?
The Seattle Seahawks, the NFL champions of 2013, feel like underdogs. After all, the city hasn’t celebrated a pro sports title since 1979 and the football franchise had never hoisted the Lombardi Trophy before. But…
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 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….
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…
2013 MLB Predictions
Baseball is back, and so it’s time to put myself on the line with the rest of the baseball pundits and make some predictions. Will the Giants reign supreme again? And if they do, will…