Tag: San Francisco Giants
The Myths About MLB Player Injuries Are Alive and Well in 2018
Updated:Once again this season we’ve heard the same tired cliched comments about MLB player injuries: > “Wow is it me…
Read more »8/23/18 Game Preview: San Francisco Giants at New York Mets
The New York Mets (56-70) have bounced back nicely from a tough loss to the San Francisco Giants (62-66) on…
Read more »8/22/18 Game Preview: San Francisco Giants at New York Mets
Updated:The New York Mets (55-70) bounced back nicely from a disappointing loss on Monday night, tying the game in the…
Read more »8/21/18 Game Preview: San Francisco Giants at New York Mets
Updated:The New York Mets (54-70) had an embarrassing loss last night, falling to the San Francisco Giants (62-64) 2-1 in…
Read more »8/20/18 Game Preview: San Francisco Giants at New York Mets
Updated:The New York Mets (54-69) are back home after their longest road trip of the season. The trip was a…
Read more »Are Bryce Harper, Manny Machado worth $300 million?
Updated:Are Bryce Harper and Manny Machado worth $300 million? This off-season is set to feature the biggest free agent class…
Read more »Who’s Leading the War Against Baseball? Amazingly, it’s Former MLB Players
Updated:We live in a time when ideology is more important than our basic institutions. When traditions and foundational beliefs are…
Read more »2018 SF Giants Poised to Spiral into NL West Obscurity
Updated:As we complete the first full week after the 2018 All-Star Break, there’s a lot to suggest that the current…
Read more »Two National League Teams with Opposite Opportunities to Reboot
Updated:It’s odd to think of the 2018 New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers as being in similar situations as…
Read more »The 2018 MLB Trade Deadline: What the SF Giants Will Do — What they Should Do
Updated:After the first 69 games of the 2018 season, the San Francisco Giants are 34-35, in third place in the…
Read more »Brandon Belt is quietly having a huge season
Updated:It’s pretty common to check out player leaderboards throughout any given MLB season. This exercise is fun because it allows…
Read more »SF Giants’ Farm System: A Cluster of Hype and Myths
Updated:What do you do when your MLB team’s organizational ratings have been in the bottom 20% of all thirty teams…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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 »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…
Read more »Ranking MLB's 15 Opening Day Games From Worst to Best
There’s no gentle way of saying this — if you’re a baseball fan, this past winter was absolutely brutal. Even…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »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…
Read more »How the San Diego Padres Just Got Smarter
This is a time when really smart and progressive Major League Baseball organizations are engaged in an ongoing, competitive three-dimensional…
Read more »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…
Read more »The San Francisco Giants Really Need Johnny Cueto to Rebound in 2018
Major League Baseball’s offseason has been slow overall, but the San Francisco Giants have been doing their best to be…
Read more »Which Potential Trade Destination Makes the Most Sense for Jackie Bradley Jr.?
It’s no secret, you guys — the Boston Red Sox need to find a legit power bat this winter. It…
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