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Remember how crazy it was in the World Series when Rich Hill was pulled after 4 1/3 shutout innings? The Dodgers had established a polic...

Before the 2017 season started, I noted that the Mets had the widest array of possible outcomes in 2017 of any team in baseball.  I mean, ...

It breaks my heart to observe it...but that was an awful game. Game 7 of a great World Series wasn't just devoid of drama, it was a ...

Things were better in my day, sonny. Men were men, not the sissies of today. We had to get up and change the channel. If we wanted to call s...

It's that time of year when the sports talk monkeys begin speculating about which for-profit Minor League Football franchises loosely af...

When the betting lines on the World Series started heating up back in March, the favorites likely would have been Houston and Los Angeles.  ...

In 1977, Bill James released his Baseball Abstract, tearing down the house built on BA-HR-RBI and W-L records. He demonstrated empirically...

Back in the heat of the baseball season I shared my impression of the Yankee-White Sox trade that send two key relievers, a slugging third ...

Tracy Ringolsby at Baseball America has written about proposed MLB expansion to two new cities and a realignment to fewer divisions, fewer ...

Egghead stat geeks like to make sport of the blatherrati for talking about who is a clutch performer and who chokes in the playoffs. In t...

Once upon a time, in a land called Playoff Baseball, three teams went up two games to none in their Division Series. Each of these teams e...

On a per-game basis, the best -- which is to say, most valuable -- everyday players in MLB this year were obscure gentlemen named Trout and ...

There was a lot of talk in Game One of Yankees-Indians about momentum coming into the playoffs. New York has it. Cleveland has it. Aaron Jud...

I'm going to miss some things here. I mean, the 2017 regular season was such an historic, folkloric, sophomoric, unpredictable, spectacu...

The Playoffs begin this week with Wild Card action between the Yankees and Twins, and the Diamondbacks and Rockies. Jump in Dr. Emmet Br...

On the final day of the season, a recovered Bryce Harper stung the ball four times, twice for singles that led to runs. In his final at-ba...

Back in 2008 -- that's a decade ago -- I noted in this space how little value Ichiro provided the Mariners when his batting average d...

It's scary, really. Mike Trout has spent 40-something games this year in civilian clothes with a torn ligament in his thumb. And he stil...

Remember the World Champion Royals from 2015? They returned from a surprise appearance as the Wild Card in the 2014 World Series, 90 feet fr...

Quick, which is more impressive: The Phillies' rookie Rhys Hoskins socking 18 homers faster than anyone in baseball history. Or ...