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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 (…)
1. Let’s First Answer Baseball’s Most Pressing 2021 Global Questions Will the Baltimore Orioles lose 100 (…)
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 (…)
The news of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda’s sad passing last January brought a remarkable flood of stories and remembrances surging through (…)
This week most Major League Baseball teams have passed the 40 game two-thirds point of this most unconventional and paradigm-changing (…)
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 (…)
It’s usually around mid-August when the global Major League Baseball picture starts to come into sharper, more precise focus. As of August (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)