As a big fan of baseball games that mean “everything” (example: game 162 last year), I was pumped about the new playoff system...
With 2011 still painfully fresh in their minds, and in an eerily similar position in the standings, the 2012 Atlanta Braves have...
While the pundits and greater baseball world have their focus on the A’s and Angels this week, there is a series with slightly...
If the season ended today, the Oakland Athletics would play a playoff game. You know when you do something mostly to prove...
The Toronto Blue Jays have long believed in Edwin Encarnacion. Before that, the Cincinatti Reds were big, big fans of the third-baseman-turned-first-baseman....
One of my favorite posts from Off The Bench was the Inaugural Who’s Awesome and Who’s Not Awesome. While subsequent iterations of the...
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a new ownership group with apparently bottomless pockets. After acquiring Hanley Ramirez’s risky contract at the trade deadline,...
The Washington Nationals woke up this morning with a six game lead in the National League East and the best record in the...
Baseball’s superstars are what make the game fun. They are oft credited with a team’s successes, and just as soon blamed for...
Baseball records are often qualified by era. Dead-ball, live-ball, and steroid are the three we’ve come to know. The live-ball is simple,...
By any metric imaginable, Los Angeles Angels wunderkind Mike Trout is having one heck of a season. He’s leading the world in...
Each year, the Cy Young award is given to the best pitcher in each league, and this season the National League’s best pitcher has been Cincinatti...