MLB 31 Mar 20
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 (…)
Major League Baseball may have shut everything down just in the nick of time. On March 11, 2020 Washington Post sports columnist Thomas (…)
There is no spicier MLB blog series in the greater sports webisphere than “Playing Pepper” from the esteemed Daniel Shoptaw. By day Shoptaw (…)
For 19 years we’ve known that the infamous “Shot Heard Round the World” winning home run in the 1951 National League playoffs between (…)
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 (…)
As we move through the 2020 MLB pre-season, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi continues to clean house (…)
When San Francisco Giants ownership hired Farhan Zaidi to be the team’s President of Baseball Operations last off-season, the (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, (…)
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 (…)
The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in (…)
“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of each Major (…)
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 (…)
One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper. Whether they have no (…)
With the death yesterday of Peter Magowan, a principal member of the SF Giants ownership group, the story of how the Giants franchise was (…)
We often hear the following tired clichés when baseball commentators, front office executives or field managers are talking about the state (…)
The recent news that team spending on Major League Baseball payrolls decreased by $18 million in 2018 compared to 2017 could not have been (…)
As we assess the moves made during the recent MLB Winter Meetings, and the many free agents still on the market, it’s instructive to take a (…)
The addition of new President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi doesn’t change the difficult immediate outlook or profound long-term (…)
Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General Manager (…)
Willie McCovey 01/10/38 – 10/31/18 Willie McCovey debuted with the San Francisco Giants on July 30, 1959 at the age of 21. He played in (…)
Hold on to your authentic MLB-branded reversible ball caps! We recently got the news that the LA Angels of Anaheim decided to include (…)
As we plunge headfirst into the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers, I ask for a (…)
When San Francisco Giants Chief Executive Officer Larry Baer announced on September 24th that the team’s General Manager Bobby Evans had been (…)
You would think the sports section of a metropolitan newspaper would use modern analytical statistics to support their Major League (…)