MLB
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...
State Of The AL East
We’re all familiar with the Orioles season. There is a plan in place, the organization is building towards something promising, but the franchise’s time is not right now. The rest of the AL East however is in full-on contention mode. So let’s talk about that. (You...
Updating The AL West
The AL West has the best center fielder since Willie Mays and the best two-way player since Babe Ruth in Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. It also saw the #4 prospect in baseball make his debut less than two weeks ago when the Seattle Mariners called up Jarred Kelenic....
MLB Notes: May 13th
We’re 20 percent through the season and I find myself simultaneously thinking it should be over and thinking its barely started. The first is clearly a reaction to last season’s abbreviation, a psychosis that will hopefully be alleviated in short order. The second is...
NL East Entertainment
Entertaining games? Check. A group of superstars as young as 22 and as old as 36? Check. An alleged argument between the newly acquired star shortstop and the second baseman over a rodent? Check. This season, the National League East has provided just about every form...
Reviewing Dodgers and Padres Round 1
Last weekend’s Dodgers-Padres series was one of the most anticipated April series in baseball’s history and it absolutely lived up to the hype. Between a game lasting nearly five hours, a pitchers’ duel and a three-run eighth inning from the Padres to avoid a sweep,...