3w
MLB 3w ago
Four Prescient Takes on MLB Opening Week 2021
1. Let’s First Answer Baseball’s Most Pressing 2021 Global Questions Will the Baltimore Orioles lose 100 (…)
SF Giants
18 Mar
Hot Reads 18 Mar
SF Giants Playing Pepper 2021: The Unedited Director’s Cut
I can’t swear to this, but there’s a rumor that high up in the rafters of Busch Stadium in St. Louis is a small circular stairway (…)
11 Feb
MLB 11 Feb
Tales of Candlestick Park: When Tommy Lasorda Roamed Free
The news of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda’s sad passing last January brought a remarkable flood of stories and remembrances surging through (…)
09 Sep 20
MLB 09 Sep 20
MLB 2020 Labor Day is Over—Time to Get to Work
This week most Major League Baseball teams have passed the 40 game two-thirds point of this most unconventional and paradigm-changing (…)
09 Mar 20
MLB 09 Mar 20
"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 20
MLB 21 Jan 20
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 (…)
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 (…)
09 Jul 19
MLB 09 Jul 19
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 (…)
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, (…)
2d
MLB 2d ago
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 (…)
18 Jan 19
MLB 18 Jan 19
The Real Business of Baseball: Managing the Revenue Revolution
The recent news that team spending on Major League Baseball payrolls decreased by $18 million in 2018 compared to 2017 could not have been (…)
13 Dec 18
MLB 13 Dec 18
National League Playoff Spots Will Be Hard to Come By in 2019
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 (…)
14 Nov 18
MLB 14 Nov 18
SF Giants: Two Iconic Stars, Two Critical Questions to be Answered
The addition of new President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi doesn’t change the difficult immediate outlook or profound long-term (…)
09 Nov 18
MLB 09 Nov 18
SF Giants Turn an Era-Ending Double Play
Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General Manager (…)
