If only everyone worked as hard and as smart as Martinez apparently does...
Mike Scioscia's 19-year run with the Angels has officially come to an end. Scioscia, the longest-tenured manager in baseball, announced that he will be stepping down from his post following the Angels' 5-4 walk-off win over the A's in Sunday's regular-season finale. The move has been widely expected, as Scioscia is in the final days [...]
If the Marlins and White Sox lose out, we would have four teams with 100 losses.
But the world is dark and scary and mean and in constant need of a little basic human decency, however small. So no more standing idly by. Barstool Sports, as long as it has the founder that it does, is making the world a worse place. It is endorsing harassment and cruelty and bullying. It [...]
It was 40 years ago today that the verdict came down in federal court that mandated equal access for women reporters to interview teams in their locker rooms. As a baseball reporter with Sports Illustrated, I’d watched male reporters troop into locker rooms to talk with players, coaches and managers. Being a woman kept me [...]
Brandon Nimmo is having a great year. But it's just the eighth-best among hitters in their age 25 season here in 2018. Currently, nine players have a fWAR on 4.0 or greater, a feat that hasn't been accomplished since 1963. Two of those have reached or surpassed a mark of 7.5, which hasn't been done [...]
Joel Sherman wrote an article about how new statistics are ruining the game for tomorrow's new fans. Joe Posnanski offers a rebuttal.
The reason behind all those recycled photos in the late 60s
The Triple Crown is an awesome thing
The 4-6-3 is the closest thing baseball has to a crossing pattern, or a screen, or a set play at all. Obviously, there are relays all over baseball, but those are relays: I want to throw it over there, you're on the way to over there, so I'll throw it to you and then you'll [...]
An opener, for the Rays, refers to a pitcher who starts the game but will generally face only three to nine batters, depending on matchups. Often, the pitcher who follows the opener will throw five or more innings, putting him in a de facto — though delayed — starter’s role. No team has ever done [...]
Yet none of those nights holds a candle to what the Saints did earlier this week, when they paid tribute to Animal House on the occasion of its 40th anniversary with a stadium-wide food fight, and holy crap, the park’s janitors had better have gotten a big fat bonus. KARE 11 reports that the park [...]