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One wild record you probably didn’t know for all 30 MLB teams
So here’s the way this started. I absolutely was not spending even more uncounted hours tooling around Baseball-Reference.com for random nuggets of baseball information, and I absolutely did not totally geek out when I discovered that Rube Waddell still holds the Orioles’ franchise record for strikeouts in a game — set in 1908, when the […]
Continue reading‘I miss baseball every day’: What a Nolan Arenado game day looks like with MLB on hold
With on-field sports in the U.S. still on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is waiting for Major League Baseball to return to action. But as hard as that wait might be for fans on the outside looking in, imagine being a ballplayer whose mission, every day for eight or nine months every year, is […]
Continue readingEx-Cardinal Mark Hamilton finishes medical school, set to fight virus
But the fill-in first baseman for the 2011 champion St. Louis Cardinals prefers to keep that prize safe at home. “The surgical scrub tub, not the most conducive place to wear it,” Hamilton said. On Friday, under an accelerated schedule prompted by dire circumstances, the former big leaguer is set to graduate a month early […]
Continue readingThe biggest one-hit wonders for every National League team
One of the beautiful aspects about Major League Baseball: Great seasons can come from nowhere. The line between great and mediocre is smaller in baseball than other sports. A few extra strikes a game. A couple of extra swing-and-misses. A few more hits each month or a couple extra home runs and you’re an All-Star […]
Continue readingThe best behind-the-scenes MLB moments we ever saw
This was supposed to be opening week, the time when MLB fans everywhere look forward to making a season’s worth of memories. Because we won’t have games to get excited about for a while, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane by reliving some of our favorite baseball moments. […]
Continue readingSimulating the next decade of baseball with MLB The Show
Simulating games in a 162-game season, complete with minor league matchups and free-agency and draft elements, is nothing new to players. With MLB considering a new playoff format and some influential free-agency periods in the years to come, we wanted to know what the big leagues will look like 10 years from now, and we […]
Continue readingWe celebrated fantasy baseball’s 40th by building the greatest team of all time
It’s been 40 baseball seasons since Dan Okrent recruited 11 friends and colleagues to play in the very first rotisserie baseball league, as detailed in 1981 in Inside Sport magazine. There are several claims as to who invented “fantasy” sports, but there is no doubt who invented rotisserie baseball, the scoring system named for the […]
Continue readingDodgers’ Cody Bellinger insists he didn’t hurt his back on golf swing
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger on Wednesday declared himself “100 percent” and said he has returned to practicing with the team. The reigning National League MVP said he took swings Wednesday and felt no issues with his back. Bellinger said he simply had a “knot” in his back and was adamant he did not […]
Continue readingWho could be this year’s Nationals? How all 30 MLB teams stack up
Only one World Series favorite entering the season actually won the World Series in the decade we just completed. Wait, let’s put that another way: A team that was one of the top five favorites entering the season won the World Series only once over the past decade. The 2019 Washington Nationals didn’t necessarily feel […]
Continue readingDodgers scratch Cody Bellinger with side soreness
Reigning NL MVP Cody Bellinger was a late scratch in the Dodgers’ spring training lineup on Monday with side discomfort. On Sunday, Bellinger took part in Albert Pujols‘ annual charity event held at Topgolf in Scottsdale, Arizona. MLB tweeted out video of Bellinger and Mike Trout launching golf balls. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Monday […]
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