MLB

Stan Kasten – The Wizard of Chavez Ravine

by Scott Lewis | Feb 20, 2021 | Major League Baseball, Sports Business

The first association of “LA” and “Wizard” will always return first with John Wooden, the “Wizard of Westwood” who coached UCLA to 10 NCAA basketball titles in 12 years from 1964-1975 . As an undergrad student at UCLA in the mid-1990s, I was fortunate to have had the...

East Beat: Contenders Betting Big

by Gary Armida | Jan 29, 2021 | Major League Baseball

With the Super Bowl on the horizon, Major League Baseball’s (hopeful) 2021 season is starting to take shape. The American League East is always a competitive division with the traditional big spenders in New York and Boston, the always creative Rays, and, now, the...

The Warehouse – Heading Into ’21

by Chris Stoner | Dec 19, 2020 | Baltimore Orioles, Major League Baseball, Q&As / Podcasts

On this episode of The Warehouse, we discussed: - MLB adding the Negro Leagues to the official records - Cleveland changing their name from Indians - Dombrowski taking over the Phillies - 2021 HOF Ballott - Major League Baseball, and the Union at odds on whether start...

2021 NL Off-Season Preview

by Bob Harkins | Dec 2, 2020 | Major League Baseball

Now that we’ve all survived Thanksgiving and the inevitable arguments with uncles about politics (on Zoom even?), it’s time to get back to baseball. We don’t know what the 2021 season is going to look like, when it will start, how spring training will be set up, etc....

2021 AL Off-Season Preview

by Matthew Kory | Dec 2, 2020 | Major League Baseball

A belated welcome to the off-season, baseball fans. It appears the world won’t be destroyed, at least immanently, so the quest for the perfect baseball off-season continues. My excellent colleague Bob Harkins will be discussing the National League and making as many...

2020 World Series Preview: LA Dodgers vs. Tampa Bay Rays

by Bob Harkins | Oct 19, 2020 | Major League Baseball

How are we going to top that? The ALCS and NLCS were really fun to watch, with plenty of drama, big comebacks, clutch home runs and amazing defensive plays. The action wasn’t always the cleanest, but it was exciting. And perhaps most importantly, there was some...

The Best Change Of 2020

by Gary Armida | Oct 17, 2020 | Major League Baseball

The 2020 season brought a boatload of changes for Major League Baseball. Traditionalists had to reconcile the fact that the designated hitter was in both leagues. They had to make peace with a 60 game season. They had to see extra inning games with a runner placed on...

MLB: To The LCS We Go

by Bob Harkins | Oct 11, 2020 | Major League Baseball

Much like the 2020 MLB regular season, the playoffs have been brief, interesting and filled with twists and turns. We’ve had plenty of surprises to go along with the unusual setup, thanks in part to an enlarged field of teams, neutral site games and a lack of off days...