American League
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4.8K1The Unbelievable Emergence of the Phillies’ Charlie Morton
The Philadelphia Phillies may have just struck gold with Charlie Morton. The Pittsburgh Pirates are famous for their reclamation projects, turning Edinson...
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4.2KAbout Colby Lewis, Josh Reddick and The Catchers Interference
On Friday, Off The Bench published its first foray into the new Statcast data. In that piece, which is made possible by baseball savant,...
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2.4K4 Things We Learned from Day 2 of Baseball: Blue Jays, Pirates, Marlins, and Tigers
Aaron Sanchez looks good. Sanchez’s fastball was sitting at 96 mph with some serious late life in the first inning tonight. That’s...
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2.3K1Top Ten Things We Learned About the National League On Opening Day 2016
Opening Day has come and gone. Sure the pageantry of Opening Day will still be there for some of the teams that Mother Nature has...
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2.5KWhat if that Yankees-Braves-Jason Heyward Trade Had Gone Down?
Often, big time baseball decisions are made outside of the public eye. When Alex Rodriguez had worked out a deal to join...
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4.3K1The Story of Jon Singleton Should Change the Way the MLBPA Does Business
In 2014, Houston Astros’ prospect Jon Singleton signed a 5 year, $10 million deal before he had a single MLB at bat....
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2.7KThe Off the Rankings Recap: Who was Number 2?
Over the last two weeks we’ve run a series of posts that were aimed to fully prepare our readers for the forthcoming...
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2.2KOff The Rankings: Top 5 players that You’ve Never Heard Of
We are scooting right along with our Off The Rankings series, which is guaranteed to prepare you for the 2016 season with...
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2.7KOff the Rankings: Top Players Most Likely to Disappoint
Most of our Off the Rankings posts so far have had a decidedly positive bent: Top breakout candidates, top swings, top set...
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2.5KOff The Rankings: Top 10 Guys to Root for This Spring Training
Off the Rankings continues our look around the league that guarantees to prepare you for the upcoming major league season or your...
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4.1KOff The Rankings: The 10 Most Beautiful Swings in the Game Today
Off the Rankings continues today with our look at the top 10 most beautiful swings in the game today. We ran this...
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8.1KOff the Rankings: Baseball’s Best Setup Men
By popular demand we are including a baseball’s best setup men list in our Off the Rankings series this year! Set up...