Some teams are good. Other teams are bad. Sometimes, the difference is the performance of one player. Obviously, for a team to...
The potential impact of the Chicago Cubs trio of talented prospects was on full display Tuesday. The kids went back-to-back-to-back epic fashion...
A year ago, I predicted an ERA improvement in three pitchers based solely on their swinging strike rate. Those three, Tim Lincecum,...
Yesterday, MLB and the MLBPA officially rolled out three new “pace of play” rules intended to speed the game along. The measures are MLB’s...
This year, for the first time ever, there will be a baseball Team Europe. The new team’s formation was announced...
From time to time here at Off The Bench, we help our readers who have a very specific set of knowledge to better...
A brutal injury bug saw a proud Texas Rangers organization lose 95 games in 2014, good enough to finish 31 games out...
Every move that the Atlanta Braves have made this offseason has had an eye towards the future and signaled that they are not...
Before current free agent Francisco Rodriguez got his groove back in 2014, the closer had very little chance at a Hall of Fame career....
According to the projections available through Fangraphs, the Seattle Mariners will be the second best team in baseball in 2015. Sure, this...
On Friday, I was in transit to New York to reunite with some friends from my time in Germany and a few old college...
The Miami Marlins made some promises to Giancarlo Stanton in the negotiations to complete the $325 M deal that the powerful right...