The winners seven straight years of the NL West, the Dodgers today took on a ton of payroll, pushing them near the luxury tax of…
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The winners seven straight years of the NL West, the Dodgers today took on a ton of payroll, pushing them near the luxury tax of…
It is nice to see someone who played with unfettered abandon, even joy, make it to the Hall of Fame. It is hard to stand…
In today’s column, Gene Collier nails the fundamental problem with the trajectory of the Pirates: Baseball’s Hall generates more than its share of controversy, which…
…just the stories. Don Larsen died last week. What will be remembered? The pressure must have been all the more for the close score. The…
Against some expectations after the trades of Gerrit Cole and Andrew McCutcheon in the off-season, the Pirates pleasantly surprised with an 83-79 record in 2018.…
Benstonium’s satire of the Gillette social justice advertisement is just too good: That said, the reckoning of the Steeler offense is not going to be…
Peter Attia’s emailed a recommendation today of Annie Duke’s Thinking in Bets, which uses Seattle’s last play of Super Bowl XLIX (49), on February 1,…
The last two nights of Pirates versus Reds were two hot evenings between teams battling for a very cold place in the NL Central. Lured…
One of the glories of baseball is that at any moment in October some unsung roster scrap can be possessed by fate and take over a series. The Giants’ 2010 and 2012 playoff runs benefited from such unpredictable surges. Aubrey Huff, Cody Ross and Marco Scutaro shone most brightly in the twilight of previous runs then faded away; Barry Zito packed the value of his entire seven year contract into a couple of clutch October games.
Another note: the A’s are 3.5 games ahead of the Angels; and 15-1 to win the pennant versus the Angels’ 15-2? Does “home investing bias”…