MLB
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...
2021 NL Off-Season Preview
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
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
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
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
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...
Rating The MLB Rule Changes
The 2020 MLB season included an unprecedented amount of changes from 2019. Some of these changes were the result of coronavirus, while others were going to happen regardless of the pandemic. Now, it’s time to reflect on these changes and see if they’re worth keeping...