Tag: MLB blogs
Ready for Another Shake-up Year in the NL West? Not So Fast
Updated:2017 was a paradigm shift season for the National League West. With both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies under…
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For the San Francisco Giants, the Old School is Always In Session
Updated:Let’s get one thing out of the way before those of you enjoying an adult beverage do a spit-take and…
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STOP THE PRESSES!! WE HAVE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BREAKING NEWS!!
Updated:Cutting Edge Baseball Headlines From Around the Nation and Around the World! This Is the Real Made Up News that…
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One Brain-Dead MLB Debate Needs to Go Away in 2018
Updated:As we careen into the first several weeks of the 2018 MLB season, it’s a good time to address the…
Read more »The LA Dodgers and the Zen of Doing Nothing While Making Everything Happen
We recently reviewed a number of misleading offseason narratives being spun about each team in the National League West. Incorrect…
Read more »Playing Pepper 2018: When You Come to the Anniversary in the Road, Take It
This is the tenth year in a row that Daniel Shoptaw has coerced dozens of baseball bloggers to answer a…
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Deconstructing the SF Giants' 2018 Schedule: It’s All About the First Half
Traditionally Major League Baseball divides every season into the “first half” and “second half”, with the All-Star break being the…
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The 2018 NL West Again Poised to Grab Three Postseason Spots
As Spring Training begins in earnest, it’s time to examine and correct several misleading narratives being spun about every team…
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Giants Front Office Appears to be in Disarray as the 2018 Season Opens
Updated:As the San Francisco Giants begin Spring Training 2018 there are undeniable signs the team’s front office and executive management…
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Darvish to the Chicago Cubs Means it’s Time for Milwaukee and St. Louis to Step Up
This offseason, Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein and General Manager Jed Hoyer have been laser-focused on improving…
Read more »The NL Wild Card Race Should be a Wild Ride in 2018
Last season saw a rumbling tectonic shift in the battle for the National League’s two Wild Card playoff slots. The…
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The ABC’s of the MLB CBA: When is a Luxury Tax Not a Salary Cap
In late November of 2016, representatives of Major League Baseball were engaged in tense and critically important labor negotiations with…
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SF Giants’ Plan for 2018: Slap a Team Together to Keep the Money Rolling In
The one thing you have to say about the state of the San Francisco Giants is that the team’s front…
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Of the Myths Spun and Believed About Major League Baseball Injuries
For some reason there are still baseball fans, bloggers, sports writers and Major League franchises who completely fail to understand…
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Giants Trade for Longoria In Their Continuing Effort to Appear Relevant
San Francisco Giants executives are obviously dedicated to fulfilling what they perceive is their #1 responsibility: to try to appear…
Read more »SF Giants Make a Short-term Positive Move— Matt Moore to the Rangers
At The Giants Cove we try to hold the San Francisco Giants to the highest professional sports franchise standards. Because…
Read more »San Francisco Giants Paying the Price for a Fumbled Legacy
Whenever any criticism of the San Francisco Giants comes up, fans are quick to point out the team’s three World…
Read more »STOP THE PRESSES!! WE HAVE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BREAKING NEWS!!
Cutting Edge Baseball Headlines From Around the Country and Around the World! This Is the Real Made Up News that…
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Why Signing Giancarlo Stanton Would Be a Disaster for the San Francisco Giants
Since the World Series ended, the San Francisco Giants have gotten a great deal of media play over their self-advertised…
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The Giants’ Bold Plan for 2018: Devise a Series of Inept Distractions
We have breaking news. The San Francisco Giants’ historically catastrophic 98-loss 2017 season wasn’t simply about wins and losses. And…
Read more »The 2017 World Series Presents a Confusing Mathematical Conundrum
Just as the 2017 World Series begins we find ourselves faced with a troublesome statistical problem, which could just make…
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Dusty Baker’s Managerial Resume Continues its Relentless Freefall
Responsibility for success or failure in professional sports can cut a fine line. Is it defined by the quality of…
Read more »SF Giants Executives Laser-Focused on Team’s #1 Critical Need: Explaining Away 2017
The San Francisco Giants organization is planning on big changes happening in 2018. Without actually doing very much. Following the…
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Giants Use Unique Strategy to Go After Japanese Superstar Shohei Otani
Just about everyone knows who the number one free agent will be this off-season: twenty-three-year-old Japanese baseball mega-star Shohei Otani….
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In the Dominant National League West, Here’s the Next Powerhouse Team
With two weeks to go in the 2017 season, three of the four National League teams with the best winning…
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The First Giants: The Cure for a Losing Streak is Always the Phillies
When we last left the 1883 New York Gothams, they had suffered blowout losses in five straight games to close…
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Predicting the 2017 Giants: The “Who Knew?” Defense
When a baseball season goes as badly for a team as the 2017 MLB season has gone for the San…
Read more »How Flawed Free Agents, Poor Trades, and Cheap Player Signings Helped Derail the San Francisco Giants
Precious Resources: Money vs IP and ABs Bad multi-year Major League Baseball player contracts are easy to spot several years…
Read more »What the SF Giants Will Look Like on Opening Day 2018
The San Francisco Giants will close their disappointing 2017 season in six weeks with a complex, and contradictory, set of…
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