The Tampa Bay Rays demoted one of my favorite former prospects, Blake Snell, this week. He just didn’t throw enough strikes to...
Off The Bench likes Zac Brown Band. Their Fourth Album, Jekyll and Hyde, came out in the summer of 2015, just before...
The St Louis Cardinals have this tendency to produce All-Star caliber players out of basically nowhere. Notably, Matt Carpenter came to St...
I’ve been here in my little corner of the internet shouting, pontificating, and postulating about (mostly) baseball things for about 5 years...
Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ playoff hopes took a big hit as their centerfielder, Starling Marte, was slapped with an 80-game suspension for...
Max and I had the pleasure of hosting the Baseball Bloggers Alliance Podcast last night. We had Shaun Doyle from jaysfromthecouch.com and...
Last year, I published a post titled 10 Things We Learned About the National League on Opening Day 2016. Like a fine wine, that...
The Chicago Cubs are the reigning World Series Champions and they return most of their roster from last year, but with a...
Here we are with the AL Central. The division does not get the publicity of the AL East, but this division is...
Inspired by Brandon Isleib and his great Baseball in The Dark: The Best Players Outside the Spotlight piece, I decided to turn...
We’re continuing our season previews today and Max tells me that I have been assigned the NL Central, but I cannot write...
The National League East is a mix of the haves and the have-nots, though not to the extreme that was 2016, when 3...