MLB
MLB 2021 Overview
Happy Opening Day, BSL Readers! It’s truly a special day, and in light of the past year, today becomes all that more important and meaningful. Opening Day has always been an important day for me. I remember listening to Jon Miller call the Orioles on Opening Day while...
2021 MLB Predictions Destined To Go Wrong
The return of the 162 game Major League Baseball season is upon us. While the 60 game sprint offered quite a bit of excitement, there is something comforting about having the marathon of a baseball season back in our lives. The 162 game schedule is the great...
The Warehouse: Episode 31
On this episode of The Warehouse, Dr. Loftus, Matt Kory, and myself discussed: - Article at The Ringer on moving back the mound - Article at ESPN on Major League Baseball to deploy several experimental rules in minor leagues this season - NL West...
2021 Rules Experimentation Likely Impacts Baseball Tradition (In A Good Way)
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is tasked with keeping a group of owners happy in their millions of dollars of profits, keeping the players happy with their millions of dollars, and making sure that the sport doesn’t lose its audience to the more fast paced sports like...
Oakland A’s Again Set The Bar By Introducing Cryptoball
The Oakland A’s may reside in the most antiquated venue in pro sports, 50+ year-old Oakland Coliseum, but that hasn’t stopped them from once again setting the bar for other teams inside and outside of baseball to follow. Moneyball of course, is now two decades old....
Stan Kasten – The Wizard of Chavez Ravine
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
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
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...