19 May
MLB 19 May
Four Intriguing MLB Stories I Can’t Get Out of My Head (#3 & #4)
3. Picking Off Three Runners for Three Outs: The Ultimate in Theft Prevention Sometimes you find out that (…)
13 May
MLB 13 May
Four Intriguing MLB Stories I Can’t Get Out of My Head (#1 & #2)
In the great swath of legendary MLB history and statistical oddities there are certain tales that grab us by the scruff of our necks, enter (…)
02 May
MLB 02 May
The 1972-1995 MLB Labor Wars: 24 Years of Strikes and Lockouts (part 2)
The MLB Labor Wars Part 2: Prelude to Labor-Armageddon 1990 Season – Baseball Owners (…)
01 May
MLB 01 May
The 1972-1995 MLB Labor Wars: 24 Years of Strikes and Lockouts (part 1)
Major League Baseball is working to determine just how the 2020 season, abbreviated by the COVID-19 epidemic, will be scheduled and (…)
31 Mar
MLB 31 Mar
MLB Joins a World Turned Upside Down by the COVID-19 Tsunami
Major League Baseball may have shut everything down just in the nick of time. On March 11, 2020 Washington Post sports columnist Thomas (…)
09 Mar
MLB 09 Mar
"Playing Pepper" Brings the Heat to the 2020 MLB Season
There is no spicier MLB blog series in the greater sports webisphere than “Playing Pepper” from the esteemed Daniel Shoptaw. By day Shoptaw (…)
21 Jan
MLB 21 Jan
In the History of High-Tech MLB Cheating the Giants Were Pioneers
For 19 years we’ve known that the infamous “Shot Heard Round the World” winning home run in the 1951 National League playoffs between (…)
30 Dec 19
MLB 30 Dec 19
How the SF Giants Are Turning Their Broken Farm System Around
When, you might wonder, was the last time the San Francisco Giants had four players on Major League Baseball’s Top 100 Prospects list? How (…)
10 Dec 19
MLB 10 Dec 19
Why the World of the San Francisco Giants Got Blowed Up Real Good
As we move through the 2020 MLB pre-season, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi continues to clean house (…)
22 Oct 19
MLB 22 Oct 19
Answers to All Your 2019 World Series Questions in One Easy to Swallow Portion
The expected story-line for the 2019 MLB World Series is short, simple and brutal. The Houston Astros will mercilessly deconstruct the (…)
01 Oct 19
MLB 01 Oct 19
The Only Guide You Will Need for the 2019 MLB Wild Card Games: Free Version
As Milwaukee and Washington prepare to play the NL Wild Card game later today, it’s instructive to note that few Major League post (…)
23 Aug 19
MLB 23 Aug 19
Flash: The Rest of the NL West Won’t Wait for SF Giants to Get Better
When San Francisco Giants ownership hired Farhan Zaidi to be the team’s President of Baseball Operations last off-season, the (…)
15 Aug 19
Hot Reads 15 Aug 19
Truly Epic MLB Playoff Wars Building in the NL and AL Central Divisions
It’s usually around mid-August when the global Major League Baseball picture starts to come into sharper, more precise focus. As of August (…)
01 Aug 19
MLB 01 Aug 19
The 2019 MLB Trade Deadline: Award-Winning Analysis and Some Other Stuff
The recent MLB trade deadline is being described in terms of what the Big Three franchises did or didn’t do by July 31st. So let’s take (…)
23 Jul 19
MLB 23 Jul 19
The SF Giants Serve Up a Delicious Problem
The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed to be standing in a cafeteria (…)
MLB
A Critical Mid-Season Turning Point for the SF Giants and Farhan Zaidi
The Major League Baseball landscape in San Francisco is a contorted mishmash as we pause at the All-Star break to assess what the official (…)
06 Jun 19
MLB 06 Jun 19
A Short History of MLB Stats: Here’s Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
No other professional sport on planet earth is more defined and illuminated by statistics than Major League Baseball. As the (…)
16 May 19
MLB 16 May 19
In the SF Giants Dugout the Veterans are Leading by (Worst) Example
With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, (…)
19 Apr 19
MLB 19 Apr 19
The SF Giants and the First Rule of Holes: Just Stop Digging
After the first three weeks and 20 games into the 2019 season, the San Francisco Giants appear on the surface to be a continuing model of (…)
15 Mar 19
MLB 15 Mar 19
For the SF Giants “Rebuild” Doesn’t Begin to Describe What’s Happening
The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in (…)
09 Mar 19
MLB 09 Mar 19
"Playing Pepper" Adds Spice to the 2019 MLB Season
“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of each Major (…)
22 Feb 19
MLB 22 Feb 19
2019 MLB Teams: False Positives and Completely Wrong Negatives
Every year we get all worked up about the success or failure of various MLB teams, based on what we perceive they’ve done (or (…)
12 Feb 19
MLB 12 Feb 19
The SF Giants: Smoke, Mirrors, and Bryce Harper
One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper. Whether they have no (…)
28 Jan 19
MLB 28 Jan 19
How Peter Magowan Saved The San Francisco Giants
With the death yesterday of Peter Magowan, a principal member of the SF Giants ownership group, the story of how the Giants franchise was (…)
25 Jan 19
MLB 25 Jan 19
Debunking Two Losing MLB Strategies: The “Open Window” and Having a “Core”
We often hear the following tired clichés when baseball commentators, front office executives or field managers are talking about the state (…)
