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The Pennant Race In California
If you’re looking for pennant race drama as baseball gets closer to the playoffs, there’s one state that seems to be at the center of it: California. The San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers are battling for a division title, with the loser hosting the Wild...
MLB Notes Column: AL East Edition
Hey hello and welcome to MLB Notes, a column with a self-explanatory title! It’s playoff race time, boys and girls, that special time of year before everything is decided when hope springs eternal or at least it does if you’re the Yankees. Transition! Yankees!...
Facing The AL East
On Monday, the Orioles started an AL East gauntlet to finish their season. Of their final 58 games, 38 will be against a divisional foe, accounting for 66 percent of their remaining matchups. They’ll play the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees nine times and have ten...
MLB Trade Deadline
Yesterday was quiet time for the Orioles, but for every other team in the AL East and many other teams in baseball the 2021 trade deadline has been like making a cup of tea while jumping on a trampoline. While riding a horse. While on fire. There is still time for the...
NL Central Thoughts As The 2nd Half Begins
When you turned on the 2021 All-Star Game on Tuesday night, were you expecting two members of the Pittsburgh Pirates to be starting for the National League? In a lineup with stars like Fernando Tatis Jr. and Freddie Freeman, a pair of Buccos were also in the lineup:...
How The Nats July 4th 11AM Game Came To Be
How fitting that the 10th edition of the Nationals annual 11am 4th of July game features the Los Angeles Dodgers. On paper, it provides Major League Baseball with a marquee national TV matchup for its MLB Network, featuring the defending World Series champions. It...
2021 MLB Draft: The Models, They Are A Changin’
If you study statistics for any length of time, eventually you'll run across the oft-repeated aphorism of noted statistician George Box. While similar sentiments pre-dated Box, he succinctly noted in a 1978 paper... All models are wrong but some are useful. That...
NL West Thoughts
When everyone previewed the NL West this season, the focus was only on three teams: the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies. This was a pretty reasonable decision, after all. The Dodgers were the defending champs and signed Trevor Bauer to...