In the Summer of 2012, a few years before Sports Illustrated christened the Houston Astros the 2017 World Series champions, my son’s travel baseball team ventured to Lancaster, California to watch the Single-A Jethawks play…. Read more »
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros will be competing in the 2017 version of the World Series, which begins tonight. This much we know. We also know, or can at least reasonably assume that… Read more »
Effectively Wild Episode 57: The Teams That Will Win a World Series in the Next Five Years/Are Beat Writers Becoming More or Less Important?/The O’s Start Saunders On the [Morning? Evening? Afternoon? It’s unclear] of… Read more »
The Astros won the AL pennant on Saturday night. A clean 4-0 victory over the one-season-too-soon Baby Bombers. However, one pitch could have changed it all. If you checked Sportscenter Friday night, you would have… Read more »
Welcome to Physics Friday! I would be happy to receive suggestions for future topics based on questions YOU have relating to baseball and science/physics/mechanics: you can drop them in the comments below or reach me… Read more »
I am an attorney. As such, my bookcases are stocked with legal tomes, filled with confusing text, obscure events, and various and sundry arcana. After practicing for nearly twenty years, I rarely reach for any… Read more »
CC Sabathia, now 37, is having a great postseason. Across three starts (15.2 IP), he’s allowed just 11 hits, 7 walks, and four earned runs. In his most recent start, in game three of the… Read more »
Some moments are indelible. When they happen, we know we have witnessed history. And no matter what happens after, those moments will be lodged in our memory, forevermore. “The Giants win the pennant…the Giants win… Read more »
Welcome to my first (Baseball) Physics Friday post! I’m always looking for ideas to write up anything, from a quick physics explanation to a longform narrative. This piece will be the latter, in the style… Read more »
The MLB divisional round wrapped up after a week-plus of blowouts, nail-biters, comebacks, choke jobs, missed challenges, mold, pitching changes, so many mound visits, and everything in between. The focus switches to the LCS now,… Read more »
Many people may remember last Tuesday’s AL Wild Card game for the six first-inning runs (including three homers); or the fact that the starters recorded a combined seven outs; or Gary Sanchez taking a foul… Read more »
For the third year running, our review of preseason predictions and projections is back, crushing all the hopes of those baseball writers who never wanted to make predictions in the first place and would rather… Read more »
Yankees manager Joe Girardi is as good a candidate as any to win the Manager of the Year award. Before the Wild Card game against Minnesota on October 3, he was cheered loudly by the… Read more »
Clayton Kershaw was born my sophomore year of high school. For reasons that we need not get into here, I cannot possibly be his father. However, when he takes the… Read more »
October is here and so are the playoffs. It’s baseball’s most exciting time of year, unless you root for one of the 20 teams who aren’t invited. In that case, it’s a bittersweet reminder of… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Sunday, October 1. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
When the Cleveland Indians caught the Houston Astros in the American League standings, I asked three of my Yankee fan friends who they’d rather play. The Yankees, of course, are sitting in pole position for… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Sunday, September 24. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Sunday, September 17. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Sunday, September 10. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Sunday, September 3. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
My grandmother’s longtime boyfriend was a man named Smitty. Every New Year’s Eve, Smitty would go into homeless shelters in New York City and hand out cigars to the men and candy to the women… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Sunday, August 27. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
On a lovely Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, the Mariners made five errors in the bottom of the first inning. The Yankees scored six runs and went on to win the game, 10-1. According to… Read more »
There was a time when Andrew Cashner had the kind of potential that baseball fans can really dream on. He had a high-nineties fastball, great promise with his changeup and slider, and a high ground… Read more »
Author’s note: In a Banished to the Pen exclusive, we teamed up with Nolan Arenado’s stellar glove to answer fan questions on names, offseason plans, the Dodgers, and much more. Hey everyone, Most of you… Read more »
This entry lists the best and worst for the past 30 days of the 2017 regular season, through games of Monday, August 21. Here is an explanation of this weekly feature. Comment of the week:… Read more »
Baseball is a celebration of numbers. Players and teams break game, single season, and career records all the time. New records are set every year just to be knocked down again in the future. Everyone… Read more »
Baseball is a celebration of numbers. Players and teams break game, single season, and career records all the time. New records are set every year just to be knocked down again in the future. Everyone… Read more »
Chad Bettis pitched in a Major League game on Monday for the Colorado Rockies. It was his first professional start since undergoing chemotherapy during the spring after it was discovered the testicular cancer he had… Read more »
