Bet of the Night: 10/23/2022
Are you new to gambling? A veteran? A numbers nerd or always trusting your gut? No matter who you are, you’re looking for a bet to cash tonight. I have that bet for you. Yesterday, I gave you W...
Baseball legend Vin Scully passes away at 94
Late last night, legendary sportscaster and Dodgers staple Vin Scully passed away at the age of 94. Scully was part of the Dodgers organization from 1950-2016 and began announcing games full-time in 1...
Red Sox Add Two Questionable Characters at deadline
The Boston Red Sox struck prior to the trade deadline. Yesterday, Boston acquired both outfielder Tommy Pham from the Reds and catcher Reese McGuire from the White Sox, two guys who have made some que...
Are the New York Yankees… underrated?
Trying to understand the New York Yankees fanbase is a colossal waste of time. Reading Yankees Twitter is a cesspool, and don’t even get me started on Yankees Facebook. But the one thing I’...
Major League Baseball’s Fragile State: Approaching Opening Day Deadline with Apprehension
Baseball fans worldwide agree: Major League Baseball has plenty of explaining to do. From the seemingly non-existent progression of the lockout, to the treatment of minor league players, to the devast...
MONDAY M.O. – Orioles strike out on Camden Yards’ unexpected renovations
I had planned on this being about Oriole Park at Camden Yards’ 30th Anniversary. I wanted to talk about how it started a wave of new baseball-only parks with retro-classic designs, and then go t...
MLB Struck Gold In A Cornfield: What’s Next?
As Kevin Costner wandered the fresh grass of a field built adjacent to the famous cornfield featured in Field of Dreams (1989), memories, dreams and aspirations returned to the minds of every person t...
MLB Trade Deadline: Two Weeks Removed, Still Shocking
The dust has settled over a chaotic trade deadline that saw many key players from teams switch uniforms. The Giants and Dodgers tacked on to their already-loaded rosters in an arms race for either div...
Stadium Series #4: Forbes Field (Pittsburgh)
For the fourth edition of the stadium series, we’re going back to another old-school ballpark. Keeping with the Pennsylvania theme, this week’s edition is Forbes Field, home of the Pittsbu...
Stadium Series #3: Baker Bowl (Philadelphia)
The oldest stadium to be featured so far, the Baker Bowl has all the oddities you could want from a ballpark that opened before the dead ball era. The Bandbox of Philadelphia The Baker Bowl originally...
MLB Ending Sticky Situation
It’s well documented that Major League Baseball has had a problem with pitchers that doctor baseballs for increased spin rate. This meant that pitchers were using various substances in order to ...
Stadium Series #2: Los Angeles Coliseum
Our last featured park was Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, a football stadium that somehow shoehorned the Blue Jays in. For the next stadium, we have a bit of a similar situation. The Los Angeles Memor...
Stadium Series #1: Exhibition Stadium (Toronto)
Since the start of last season, the Toronto Blue Jays have been unable to play at Rogers Centre, their home ballpark. The Jays spent 2020 at their Triple-A stadium, Sahlen Field in Buffalo, New York, ...
Tejay Antone’s Long Road to Triple Digits, and to Major League Dominance
The year was 2017. Tejay Antone, a Reds draft pick, was rehabbing from Tommy John surgery while with the Daytona Tortugas, Cincinnati’s Advanced-A affiliate. The 23-year-old Antone typically sat...
The Complicated Success of Domingo Germán
Domingo Germán’s return to baseball was certainly not without controversy. After missing the 2019 postseason and all of 2020 due to a suspension for domestic violence, many fans didn’t wa...
Ranking Detroit Rebuilds – Who Has The Brightest Future?
54-111 That is the combined record for each Detroit sports team this year, including the Lions 2020 season. For 8 months us Detroit sports fans have only seen our teams win 54 times. However, the losi...
How Aroldis Chapman Got His Groove Back
Aroldis Chapman has long been one of baseball’s most feared relievers. The flamethrowing southpaw is known for his incredible velocity, including a 2010 pitch now measured at 105.8 mph. Of cours...
The Milwaukee Brewers Are Tied for the Best Record in the NL Despite Having Half the Team on the IL
The Milwaukee Brewers have *clears throat* 13 players currently on the Injured List and that number could go up depending on the status of catcher Omar Narvaez after he was taken out of last nightR...
Corey Kluber Finds His Cy Young Form in Win Over Detroit
As recently as 2018, Sunday’s outing from Corey Kluber would have been no surprise. 8 innings, no runs, and 10 strikeouts against one walk was a nearly routine outing for the righthander in his ...
Jeff Bridich Resigns: Rockies Look Forward to Better Days?
On Monday, Colorado Rockies general manager, Jeff Bridich, resigned from the position after much scrutiny from the media. The Colorado Rockies have historically been considered one of the worst organi...
How Jonathan Loaisiga Became a Shutdown Reliever
The Yankees have long been fans of Jonathan Loaisiga. After being released by the Giants in 2015, he signed with the Bronx Bombers. Tommy John surgery delayed his development, and he finally made his ...
Yankees’ Bats Come to Life in Win Over Cleveland
Well, they were certainly overdue. After a horrid, putrid stretch of baseball, the New York Yankees finally got their offense to wake up on Thursday night. In a 6-3 win in Cleveland, the Bombers recor...
Padres-Dodgers Is Baseball At Its Best
It isn’t the World Series. It isn’t even October. But the series between the Dodgers and the Padres sure feels like playoff baseball, even in April. Right now, this is the most exciting ri...
Learn the Name Akil Baddoo
If you don’t know the name Akil Baddoo by now, you need to pick your head out of the dirt. He’s a 22-year-old center fielder for the Detroit Tigers and is setting the league on fire. Throu...
Is It Time for Yankees Fans to Panic?
Entering the 2021 MLB season, the Yankees were one of the favorites to win the World Series. The PECOTA projections also expected the Bombers to finish with the best record in the American League. How...
Kyle Higashioka Powers Yankee to Win in Dunedin
On Monday night, the New York Yankees did something that the franchise had never done before. They played a regular-season game at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, Florida. The temporary home of the Toronto Bl...
Examining the Hot Start for the Yankees’ Bullpen
We’re less than a week into the 2021 MLB regular season, so naturally it’s time to completely overreact based on an extraordinarily small sample size. In the first five games of the season...
Ohtani Dazzles on Sunday Night Baseball
On Sunday night, Angels two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani did something he’d never done before: pitched and hit in the same major-league game. The Japanese-born star took the mound for the Angels, st...
A Hot Start for Sanchez, and More from the Yankees’ Opening Series
Baseball is officially back! The Yankees have finished their opening series of the season, and there’s a lot to talk about here. The Toronto Blue Jays won the series 2-1, taking the first and fi...
2021 MLB Award Predictions
Tomorrow is the big day. Wednesday has slowly crawled along, almost like it’s Christmas Eve. To pass some time, here are my predictions for the MLB awards in each league. On top of picking a win...
Rocker, Leiter: Does it Matter?
In the first episode of The Pretenders or Contenders show, we dove head first into the Pittsburgh Pirates. Discussion topics ranging from where the roster currently sits, the future of the franchise a...
2021 American League Projected Standings
Can you believe it? The long, long months are over. Opening Day is almost here. Before the season begins, I decided to look around the American League and see where each team stands entering 2021. For...
Sanchez, Kluber, & More from Yankees’ Spring Training
Every week this spring, I’ve been recapping the latest news from the Yankees’ Spring Training camp. With just a week until the regular season begins, let’s see what has been happenin...
Harmony Baseball Academy: Onward & Upward
Just before Christmas of this past year, I had the pleasure of speaking with Arsel Giowou, the founder and operator of the Harmony Baseball Academy in Cameroon. Exploring the history of the game in Af...
Breakout Candidates for Every AL East Team
The 2021 MLB season is only 10 days away. As it approaches, let’s take a look around the AL East and see who on each team could be break out and establish themselves as regular contributors at t...
Is Mike Tauchman’s Yankee Tenure Coming to an End?
Throughout the spring, Mike Tauchman has been fighting for a role with the New York Yankees. After struggling in 2020, Tauchman is currently battling against players like Jay Bruce and Derek Dietrich ...
Yankees, Mets Allow 20% Capacity to Start Season
For both New York baseball teams, the regular season is approaching fast. When it arrives, there will be fans in the seats of Yankee Stadium and Citi Field for the first time in well over a year. On T...
Urshela at SS, and More from Yankees’ Spring Training
Another week of Spring Training is in the books. Let’s take a visit to Tampa, and see the latest news to come out of the Yankees’ camp. Gio Urshela: Shortstop? In my latest roster projecti...
Predicting the Yankees’ Opening Day Roster… Again
I originally projected the New York Yankees’ roster for Opening Day nearly a month ago. Naturally, much has changed in that time. So it’s time to take another crack at it, this time with u...
MLB announces new rules for minor league baseball
Earlier this week, the MLB announced there would be new rules across their lower levels. The new rule changes that will be in affect once the minor leagues start will be different for all minor league...
The Long, Winding Road of Lucas Luetge
Making it to Major League Baseball is very, very hard. Staying there is even harder. Just ask Lucas Luetge. The 33-year-old lefthander is currently at Spring Training with the Yankees, attempting to c...
Britton’s Bone Chips, and More from Yankees Spring Training
As Spring Training rolls on, let’s take a look at the latest from the Yankees’ camp. Zack Britton Gets Surgery The Yankees recently got some bad news regarding their star reliever, Zack Br...
Making a Case for Derek Dietrich in Pinstripes
As the New York Yankees progress through Spring Training, one veteran is attempting to make a case to be on the roster come Opening Day. Here’s why Derek Dietrich could end up an important membe...
Batter by Batter: Domingo Germán Returns to the Mound
On Friday afternoon, all eyes were on Domingo Germán. The 28-year-old righthander took the mound for his Spring debut against the Tigers. He last pitched in an MLB game on September 18, 2019, after b...
State of the AL East: 2021 Projected Standings
As the spring continues, fans will get more insight into each team around baseball. Let’s take a look at each team in the AL East, and how they fare coming into the 2021 season. #1 New York Yank...
A Sanchez Slam, and More from the Yankees’ First Spring Training Games
The New York Yankees have played their first three games of Spring Training, losing to the Blue Jays, while defeating the Tigers and Orioles. In these opening games, several things jumped off the page...
Mike Tauchman Fighting for a Role with the Yankees
The New York Yankees opened Spring Training on Sunday, against the Toronto Blue Jays. One Yankee outfielder, Mike Tauchman, found himself in the starting lineup with something to prove. What You Tauch...
2021 Detroit Tigers Preview
Our guy @calebczarnik with a preseason preview on the 2021 Detroit Tigers...
Aaron Judge’s Extension, & More Notes from Yankees Spring Training
Spring Training is fully underway, with position players reporting at the beginning of this week. Here are some notes and takeaways from the Yankees’ camp so far. Aaron Judge Talks New Contract ...
Predicting the Mets’ Opening Day Roster
The team from Queens has had quite an offseason. Under new owner Steve Cohen, the Mets have made several big splashes and acquisitions since the end of last season. Let’s break down what their O...
What Do the Yankees Do With Domingo Germán?
New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán is an interesting case. His tenure in the Bronx has been complicated, to say the least. With Spring Training 2021 officially underway, it seems that Germán ha...
Could Luis Severino Return Earlier Than Expected?
Luis Severino received Tommy John surgery in February of last year. The typical recovery time for Tommy John is usually 12-18 months. Yankees GM Brian Cashman addressed the return of Severino a few we...
Predicting the Yankees’ Opening Day Roster
Coming into the 2021 MLB season, the Yankees still boast one of the strongest rosters in baseball. However, this does not mean they are without issue. With Spring Training officially underway, the Bro...
Potential Free Agency Relief Targets for the New York Yankees
With exactly one week until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training, it still appears as though many teams are not done acquiring new pieces. One of these teams could very well be the New Yor...
Mets Sign Outfielder Albert Almora
The Mets’ search for a true defensive center fielder has seemingly ended. Early on Sunday morning, Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic reported that the team has agreed to a deal with 26-year-old Albe...
Happy Anniversary, ‘Cash Man’: 5 of the Best Brian Cashman Moves
On February 3rd, 1998, Brian Cashman was officially named general manager of the New York Yankees. In the 23 seasons since, the Bronx Bombers have won 4 World Series, 6 American League pennants, and 1...
How Jeff Bridich Drove Nolan Arenado Out of Town
A blockbuster trade, announced on Friday and officially finalized on Monday, sent shockwaves throughout the baseball world. Star third baseman Nolan Arenado has been sent to the St. Louis Cardinals, i...
The Suffer Index: MLB Fanbases
The Suffer Index is back again, this time with America’s pastime. That’s right, we’re taking on the MLB this time around. Once again, I made a few changes, but I think it better enca...
Yankees Sign Veteran Reliever Darren O’Day
There’s a new pitcher in the Bronx, and he throws sidearm. According to Lindsey Adler of The Athletic, the Bronx Bombers have agreed to terms with 38-year-old reliever Darren O’Day. It was...
Yankees Acquire Jameson Taillon from Pirates
The New York Yankees continue to bolster their pitching staff, as Jason Mackey reports that the Bombers have acquired righthander Jameson Taillon from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Taillon joins Gerrit Cole...
Baseball Legend Hank Aaron Dead at 86
Henry Louis Aaron was born on February 5th, 1934. He was forced to overcome immeasurable obstacles throughout his life. By the time he left us on Friday morning, he had established himself as a true A...
Ten Hypothetical “30 For 30s” We Want to Watch
Nothing dominates the sports documentary landscape quite like ESPN’s “30 for 30” series. Since their debut in 2009, these looks at memorable moments in sports history have captivated...
Baseball’s 5 Potential Breakout Candidates for 2021
Every year, we see young players burst onto the scene and make a name for themselves at the major league level. As we approach the 2021 MLB campaign, let’s take a look at five potential candidat...
How Kyle Hendricks Could End Up in the Bronx
Even with the acquisition of Corey Kluber, the New York Yankees are still dealing with a few potential question marks when it comes to pitching. Despite rave reviews from scouts and fellow players, it...
Why Corey Kluber and the Yankees Make Too Much Sense
Throughout this offseason, the main focus of both the New York Yankees and their fans has been the campaign to resign D.J. LeMahieu. And with good reason, too. LeMahieu has hit .336 since joining the ...
Harmony Academy: Bringing Baseball To Cameroon
While Baseball is America’s pastime and growing in popularity in other countries around the world, some spots around the globe find themselves unfamiliar with the century and a half old sport. H...
Doomsday Scenario: What do the Yankees do if they lose D.J. LeMahieu?
One of the biggest sagas of the 2020 offseason is the free agency of infielder D.J. LeMahieu. The 32-year-old is on the open market after two phenomenal seasons with the New York Yankees. Phenomenal m...
White Sox go all-in, acquire Lance Lynn
Late Monday night, the Chicago White Sox made the biggest splash of the offseason so far, acquiring Lance Lynn in a trade with the Texas Rangers. In return, Texas received Chicago’s #5 prospect,...
Baseball’s Enigma: the Best Zack Greinke Stories
Zack Greinke has had a phenomenal career. Since his debut in 2004, he has been a six-time All-Star and a six-time Gold Glove winner. In addition, he won the Cy Young award in 2009 and has finished as ...
Robinson Cano Banned For 2021 MLB Season
On November 18th, 2020, the MLB announced that New York Mets’ Robinson Cano has been banned for the 2021 Season without pay. The 38-year old Second Baseman tested positive for PED’s for th...
Rob Manfred Hates Baseball
Robert Manfred was elected as the next commissioner of Major League Baseball in August 2014, succeeding longtime commissioner Bud Selig. The ironic thing about this? Manfred doesn’t seem to at a...
Prepare for MLB Free Agency to Get Ugly
Free agency in baseball has long been difficult to navigate, for both players and teams alike. However, after a historically strange 2020 season, the upcoming free agency period could be unlike any ot...
Kevin Cash’s Decision to Pull Blake Snell: A Lesson about Analytics
It was Game 6 of the 2020 World Series, with the Tampa Bay Rays facing elimination. It was the bottom of the sixth inning, and the Rays led the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1-0. After Dodgers center fielder A...
The Case for Postseason Kershaw
It is something that we have all heard many, many times. The “Clayton Kershaw chokes in the playoffs” narrative has permeated the baseball world, and has reached meme status for the past s...
Ian Anderson to start NLCS Game 7 for Braves
Ian Anderson has pitched in elimination games before. In his senior year of high school at Shenendehowa in 2016, he threw a complete-game shutout, with 8 strikeouts, in the state semifinal game agains...
Yanks’ Season Relies on Jordan Montgomery
In an article from July, I said that Jordan Montgomery “will be a key depth piece in the Yankees’ chase for their 28th title.” Well, here we are. With the Bronx Bombers trailing two ...
How the 2020 Postseason Will Fit in the Yankees’ Legacy
The New York Yankees have arguably the most storied history of any professional sports team in existence. They have played in countless playoff series’, and experienced both triumph and heartbre...
In Defense of a 16-Team Playoff (This Year)
If you are like a lot of baseball fans, you were probably a little upset when Major League Baseball announced that the 2020 postseason would consist of 16 teams in total. You might have been even more...
How Corbin Burnes became a Cy Young contender
The Cy Young race in the National League features some guys you’re probably familiar with. Jacob deGrom, Yu Darvish, and Trevor Bauer seem to be the consensus top three at the moment. However, B...
Ryan Braun: The Greatest Brewer
Last night, Ryan Braun hit his 350th career home run off of Johan Oviedo. The line drive that just got over the wall, joined Braun’s name with 95 others who have had that amount of power. As som...
How Ian Happ has put himself in the NL MVP race
Think of MVP candidates in the National League this year. There are a few obvious ones. The Dodgers’ Mookie Betts, Fernando Tatis Jr. of the Padres, maybe Freddie Freeman in Atlanta. Now think o...
Is Devin Williams bringing back the screwball?
In terms of elite relievers in the league, there are a lot of guys that likely come to mind before Devin Williams. In fact, you probably thought of Williams’ own teammate, that Josh Hader guy, b...
MLB Trade Deadline: Biggest Deals and Storylines from Monday
The 2020 MLB trade deadline was an unexpectedly eventful one. There was much uncertainty about how significant trades would factor into this season, with COVID restrictions and the like. However, this...
Padres acquire Mitch Moreland from Red Sox
As the trade deadline approaches, “Slam Diego” continues to act as buyers. On Sunday afternoon, it was announced that the Padres have acquired Mitch Moreland from the Boston Red Sox. In re...
Should the Indians trade Mike Clevinger?
After this month’s fiasco regarding the Indians and two of their pitchers breaking COVID-19 protocol, the team is left with an interesting question in whether or not to trade SP Mike Clevinger. Brea...
Ian Anderson dominates in MLB debut
The Atlanta Braves called up 22-year-old Ian Anderson on Tuesday night, with the intention of starting him for that night’s game against the New York Yankees. They were hopeful he could eat some...
Injury Bug Continues to Bite Yankees
The baseball gods are not known for being forgiving. However, they seem to have some sort of grudge against the New York Yankees in recent years. They have once again sent the injury bug to the Bronx....
Ramon Laureano, Alex Cintron suspended for A’s-Astros brawl
Stemming from Sunday’s incident in Oakland, Major League Baseball announced suspensions for Athletics outfielder and Astros hitting coach Alex Cintron. Laureano will miss 6 games, and has the ri...
My Instagram Chose the Indians New Name
The Cleveland Indians are reportedly in the process of searching for a new name. Luckily, 1,874 of my closest friends and I found the solution. I compiled a list of 32 names that best fit the city of ...
Joe Kelly suspended 8 games for Astros incident
Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly has been suspended 8 games for “intentional throwing” at Houston Astros batters. This led to the benches momentarily clearing on Tuesday night. Dodge...
Blue Jays to Play Most Home Games in Buffalo
The Toronto Blue Jays have found a home for the abbreviated 2020 MLB season. The team announced Friday it will play most of its home games at Sahlen Field, its Triple-A-affiliate ballpark in Buffalo, ...
Campus Cover Episode 44: New Beginnings and a New MLB Season
Campus Cover Episode 44: New Beginnings and a New MLB Season. The Campus Cover is making its triumphant return! The former Student Union podcast has risen from the dead. Campus Cover is back and bigge...
Mookie Betts, Dodgers finalizing massive extension
Star outfielder Mookie Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly close to signing a 12-year contract extension, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal would prevent Betts from reaching...
Jordan Montgomery Could Be Yanks’ Secret Weapon
Jordan Montgomery has never particularly been one for the spotlight. The South Carolina native was a 4th-round pick of the Yankees in 2014 and quickly, but quietly, moved through their minor league sy...
Not Gonna Lie Episode 85 Ft. Joon Lee of ESPN
Joon Lee hops on the podcast to talk about the MLB restart, some unique opportunities that arise from it and his early World Series predictions. Then I dive into Patrick Mahomes’ contract and wh...