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MLB 2w ago
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
MLB 06 Jun
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
MLB 16 May
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
MLB 19 Apr
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
MLB 15 Mar
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
MLB 09 Mar
"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
MLB 22 Feb
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 (…)
