The major league career of Masahiro Tanaka, the rookie pitcher from Japan signed by the New York Yankees during the offseason, is off to a blazing start. Tanaka mowed down 11 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim batters Sunday night, giving him 46 strikeouts for the 2014 season; according to the Elias Sports Bureau, that’s the third-most strikeouts by any […]
As my colleagues have pointed out on DataLab, FiveThirtyEight readers are great. The latest example: One perceptive reader saw my article about the slowdown of Major League Baseball games and suggested that the designated-hitter rule might explain why the slowest teams are in the American League, whose clubs play with the DH in their home […]
As my colleagues have pointed out on DataLab, FiveThirtyEight readers are great. The latest example: One perceptive reader saw my article about the slowdown of Major League Baseball games and suggested that the designated-hitter rule might explain why the slowest teams are in the American League, whose clubs play with the DH in their home […]
Fame can be fickle in sports, especially for the rare player skilled (and fortunate) enough to cash in big on his athletic talents. Five years ago, Albert Pujols was baseball’s most marketable superstar. But one massive contract and two disappointing seasons later, that goodwill had faded. Until this week, that is. Pujols belted his 499th […]
Fame can be fickle in sports, especially for the rare player skilled (and fortunate) enough to cash in big on his athletic talents. Five years ago, Albert Pujols was baseball’s most marketable superstar. But one massive contract and two disappointing seasons later, that goodwill had faded. Until this week, that is. Pujols belted his 499th […]
