The Arizona Diamondbacks are a talented team that made the playoffs in 2017 and didn’t miss by much in 2018, but the organization finds itself at a crossroads. Two of its best players – center fielder A.J. Pollock and pitcher…
Rumor has it the Arizona Diamondbacks are about to blow it up. A.J. Pollock and Patrick Corbin are free agents and some big names are expected to be made available in trade, including superstar Paul Goldschmidt (more on that later…
It’s playoff time again. If you’re a Mets fan, you may not have noticed. Since 1962, this is the 46th postseason without the Mets in it, so you could be forgiven if it had slipped your mind. In case you…
On Sunday we introduced the idea of the six-week hot streak and how we shouldn’t let that overly influence our view of a player. So, let’s flip that around a bit. Instead of looking at a player, let’s look at…
Daniel Murphy had a fine career with the Mets capped by his incredible 2015 performance especially in the NLDS and NLCS, including a record of six consecutive postseason homers. After that 2015 season, the Mets did not offer him a…
Another year has gone by and another ranking is taking place. This year I pulled in two of my most consistent readers, Texas Gus and Chris F to help me rank and talk about the players. I always prefer to…
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Regardless of what a player’s final numbers are at the end of the year, he didn’t accumulate them by putting up the same production each month of the season. All players have streaks, stretches where the hits fall in as…
The playoffs are filled with teams that, for the most part, deserve to be there. Now that we are at the League Championship round, there are players that are amongst the elite in the league. The Dodgers, Brewers, Red Sox,…
Watching the Yankees-Red Sox series wasn’t just entertaining for the schadenfreude (c’mon, you know you liked seeing all those dejected Bombers fans in the crowd), it was also fun to keep an eye on the pending free agents. Regardless of…
We’re down to four teams – The 108-win Red Sox, the defending champion Astros, the red hot Milwaukee Brewers, and the deep Dodgers. Who are you rooting for? And more importantly, what free agent to be would you most like…
Under Sandy Alderson, the Mets were hesitant to shop at the top of the free agent market for at least two reasons. First, Alderson was on record as saying that most of the mega deals did not work out for…
