Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a player/league/umpire spat over on-screen strike-zone plots, whether “K-Zone” and its ilk have had a harmful effect on the game, where they stand on a hitter vs. pitcher dispute about the mid-game…
This is one of the best handful of farm systems in baseball, with the vast majority of the prospects who project to have everyday futures (or close to it) on the position player side, while the system's depth is in its pitching.
Shohei Ohtani missing bases, Juan Soto mixing up counts, and all the bad baserunning you can imagine. It's a "what were they thinking?" edition of Five Things.
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Nolan Schanuel’s aversion to day games, the Astros reaching .500 and coming for the Mariners, Houston’s weekend opponent (the Mets) making it back to .500 and nearing a playoff spot, the success …
This week marks the halfway point of the 2024 regular season. We’re out of silly sample size season now, having moved on to wondering which teams will add at the deadline and which will start building for tomorrow. Season-long leaderboards…
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Edwin Díaz’s sticky-stuff suspension, a new name for the internal brace alternative to Tommy John surgery, Blake Snell’s latest setback, the success and extension of Cristopher Sánchez (and the…
This is a fun, exciting system that has improved substantially in the last calendar year, mostly because of players the team has signed or drafted and then developed.
Plus Ryne Stanek on his oddball record, Scott Servais on Steven Kwan, Tim Dillard and the tools of ignorance, Roman Anthony and golf, facts and stats galore, and more.
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the highlights of the MLB at Rickwood Field game and broadcast, Mike Trout’s unsurprisingly slow return from knee surgery, Matt Waldron‘s sustained success, the incredible Royce Lewis, the…