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Simulating 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 readingMLB allowing players to go home after canceling spring training
MESA, Ariz. — Major League Baseball is allowing players to go home, announcing its decision a day after canceling the rest of the spring training schedule and postponing Opening Day by at least two weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak. After a meeting in Arizona on Friday that included baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, union head Tony […]
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 readingPredicting where MLB’s top remaining free agents will sign
Last week, Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon agreed to free-agent deals worth a combined $814 million. Yes, baseball has come a long way from the first free-agent class in the 1976-77 offseason, when an infielder named Paul Dade signed with the Cleveland Indians and, Sports Illustrated later reported, figured he could “start to […]
Continue readingCracking the code: Why signing free agents is paying off like never before
Two years earlier, as a Cardinal, Lynn had thrown more sinking fastballs than four-seamers. But as a Ranger, he reimagined himself: After May 4, almost 80 percent of his fastballs were four-seamers. He also threw his slider — some call his a cutter — more than he ever had. He even added a tick of […]
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