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After a strange 2020 season, the 2021 MLB season will be starting on time. Currently, teams are slated to play all 162 games which means pitchers’ workloads will return to normal. More innings and more batters on more teams mean pitchers will actually have time to ramp up, unlike in 2020. During spring training, teams…
After a strange 2020 season, the 2021 MLB season will be starting on time. Currently, teams are slated to play all 162 games which means pitchers’ workloads will return to normal. More innings and more batters on more teams mean pitchers will actually have time to ramp up, unlike in 2020. During spring training, teams…
After a strange 2020 season, the 2021 MLB season will be starting on time. Currently, teams are slated to play all 162 games which means pitchers’ workloads will return to normal. More innings and more batters on more teams mean pitchers will actually have time to ramp up, unlike in 2020. During spring training, teams…
After a strange 2020 season, the 2021 MLB season will be starting on time. Currently, teams are slated to play all 162 games which means pitchers’ workloads will return to normal. More innings and more batters on more teams mean pitchers will actually have time to ramp up, unlike in 2020. During spring training, teams…
After a strange 2020 season, the 2021 MLB season will be starting on time. Currently, teams are slated to play all 162 games which means pitchers’ workloads will return to normal. More innings and more batters on more teams mean pitchers will actually have time to ramp up, unlike in 2020. During spring training, teams…
The Minnesota Twins are trying to win the division for the third consecutive time in 2021. They won a tight race at the end of last season, just beating out the Twins and White Sox by a game apiece. Looking forward to 2021, the Twins know they have to continue to improve to keep up…
The Car’s On Fire It’ll be difficult to express just how miserable the Rockies’ offense was in 2020 with words alone, so maybe some numbers will do the trick. As a unit, Colorado’s hitters sat second from the bottom in wRC+ with a collective mark of 76, just above the 73 wRC+ mustered by the…
Having missed out on signing Trevor Bauer, the next course of action for the New York Mets seems unclear. While the team still has a few needs, many of the top players have already been claimed. Luckily, that doesn’t mean there aren’t several viable pieces on the market that could upgrade the team. Starting Pitching…
Oh dear, this isn’t good. On Thursday, the Cleveland Indians placed lockdown reliever Brad Hand on outright waivers. Hand had a team option for $10 million on his current contract, which is a more than reasonable price tag for a pitcher of Hand’s caliber. Why would the Indians place an essential part of their bullpen,…
It’s August 29, 2020, and the Baltimore Orioles and Buffalo (for this season) Blue Jays are playing a pretty dull game of baseball. Baltimore’s lost 11 of their last 14 games, and their sizzling (comparative to expectations) 11-7 start has turned into a lousy 14-18 mark for the year. Alex Cobb started against the Jays,…
It’s crazy how things can sometimes work out exactly how everyone thinks they will. The 8-seed Milwaukee Brewers were eliminated by the L.A. Dodger juggernaut in a two-game series that was almost over before it started. Los Angeles’s lights-out pitching staff silenced a weak Milwaukee lineup, and the Dodger bats put together opportune hits at…
The Tampa Bay Rays just seem to spontaneously generate great pitchers, like how people in the Middle Ages thought mice came from piles of straw and sweaty clothes. Does your team have a pitcher who’s got some kind of anomaly or who isn’t really performing up to standards? Ship him down to Tampa Bay for…
With the return of baseball just over a month away, it’s the perfect time to remind everyone of the premier players in the game. Starting Pitchers are first on the docket. Even though they’ll only (at most) get 12 starts, staff aces can have massive impacts. According to Baseball-Reference, four of the top 10 WAR…
The Braves continued their rise to the ranks of serious title contenders in 2019. Their season culminated in an NLDS appearance after winning the NL East. Their rival Washington Nationals would go on to claim the Commissioner’s trophy, however. The 2019 offseason was a tumultuous one, with lots of roster turnover. Brian McCann retired, Josh…
The Indians have lost their bona fide ace in Corey Kluber, which means their rotation has to be tweaked for 2020. After exercising their $17.5 million club option for him in October of last year, Cleveland traded Kluber and cash for a relief pitcher and an outfielder. This move came after he suffered a right…
For the first time since the 1910s, the Yankees finished a decade without a single World Series appearance. To add insult to injury, they have been incredibly close in recent years, with a roster rivaling any in baseball. After losing in the ALCS for the second time in three years last season, the Yankees spent…
After a disappointing 2019 season that saw the Angels finish fourth of five in the AL West, Los Angeles is hitting a soft reset button. The team still has perennial MVP candidate Mike Trout, who is without a doubt one of the very best in the entire MLB. He may turn out to be one…
A lot of different projected lineups are made within different categories, such as an all-decade team or the top players from a single organization all-time. One that is also made is a 25-years-old or younger team. What about a 35-years-old or older team? This article will put together a pitching rotation of active MLB pitchers…
Pitching wins may be the worst statistic of anything ever, but they have a special place in the hearts of most pitchers. And as useless as they are, pitching wins recorded by position players are still pretty rare and interesting events. So, in an effort to spread the coolness, the events leading up to the…
It’s pretty widely-known that strikeout rates in MLB have been soaring in recent years. The debates over whether or not this is a “good” thing are still raging, and will for as long as MLB exists. The average MLB-er struck out in 21.7 percent of his plate appearances in 2019, up from 17.7 percent in…