MLB

2023 Baseball Superlatives!
After that World Baseball Classic this might seem like a letdown but here we are just the same. Welcome to a new baseball season! We’re going to use the cheap conceit of superlatives to talk about the off-season and upcoming season. Let’s do it! Most Uncertainty That...

2023 Topps Series 1 Preview
Once the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020 the baseball card hobby saw a huge surge in interest with thousands of people getting into or getting back into collecting cards and using them as an investment opportunity. I was no exception even if I was late to the game,...

Previewing The 2022 World Series
If the matchup of the 2022 World Series - and that would be the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros - shows us anything, it’s that there are numerous avenues to reach the Fall Classic. The Astros are winners of 106 regular season games, losers of zero...

Previewing The Padres vs. The Phillies In The National League Championship Series
In February 2019, the San Diego Padres and Philadelphia Phillies each made a massive statement of intent in free agency. On February 19, it was reported that the Padres had won the Manny Machado sweepstakes, giving the third baseman a 10-year deal worth 300 million...

Padres vs. Mets Orioles Connections
If you haven’t heard, this year’s MLB playoffs features a Wild Card series filled with connections to the Baltimore Orioles as Manny Machado’s San Diego Padres will face Buck Showalter’s New York Mets. However, the Orioles connections in this series go beyond just...

MLB Notes: October 7th
The playoffs are here, finally. I say finally because the last few weeks of the season, typically an exciting time featuring numerous teams vying for playoff spots, was, quite frankly, a bore. There were only a few contested seedings and those were only lightly...

MLB Notes: October 3rd
The last week of the 2022 MLB season is upon us, and it’s not even really the last week. It’s the last part of the last week, the secret scene of the movie that comes on after the credits finish when most of the people have left the theatre. Sadly, this partial week...

MLB Notes September 23rd
I’m supposed to write a weekly notes piece here at BSL. That is supposed to feature different notes on different aspects of whatever is going on in Major League Baseball at the time. The thing about that though is there really is only one thing going on in Major...