While Major League Baseball is considering creative proposals to get on the field at some point this year, baseball fans do have alternatives to watch now. Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League — currently playing with four teams — started play on April 12, and South Korea’s 10-team KBO League opened on Tuesday looking like this. […]
The Houston Astros were at the the vanguard of leveraging new technology and information to their advantage during recent seasons. Their innovations in player development and data-based strategies helped the club to three straight 100-win seasons, a World Series title in 2017 and nearly another this past fall. Their former front office assistants and processes […]
How do you survive the loss of Bryce Harper, a player billed as a once-in-a-generation talent? You develop an even better once-in-a-generation talent. (So maybe that’s “twice-in-a-generation”?) The Washington Nationals might have done just that. For many, Tuesday’s National League Wild Card game was likely their first exposure to Washington wunderkind Juan Soto, who introduced […]
In the seventh inning of Wednesday night’s Dodgers-Orioles game, Jonathan Villar hit a three-run blast into the left-field seats in Camden Yards. When he crossed home plate, there was a new Major League Baseball record for home runs in a season: It was the 6,106th of 2019, breaking the record set two years ago. The […]
A year ago, we conducted an exhaustive statistical search for the team that most stood out by specifically not standing out. The not-so-proud recipients of the title of most average team in major pro sports? None other than the Pittsburgh Pirates, who would go on to finish with an almost-exactly .500 82-win record last season. […]