Weekly Hit Ground Ball: Going on a run
The Milwaukee Brewers’ recent losing run gives reason to think about the unique nature of the MLB season schedule. Plus a preview of the early games scheduled for the coming working week
The Milwaukee Brewers’ recent losing run gives reason to think about the unique nature of the MLB season schedule. Plus a preview of the early games scheduled for the coming working week
There are eight MLB games starting before midnight UK time on Saturday this week
Spring Training is the time of year when prospects are catching the eye and fans are having fun watching new players performing in their team’s colours. However, it’s the players who aren’t on the field that are grabbing the attention
You wait days for a ‘pitching phenom’ to make his debut and then two come along at once. Aroldis Chapman wowed the Royals, scouts and speed guns yesterday; today it’s the turn of the Washington Nationals’ Stephen Strasburg.
Previewing Aroldis Chapman’s Spring Training debut for the Reds today
In just a matter of days we’ll actually have some baseball to watch. Rejoice! Admittedly, the games won’t matter, but it’s a start, right? It will certainly make a nice change from feeding on scraps of non-news, or trying to predict the future, via the medium of numbers, in a bid to win a fantasy [...]
It’s time to review what each organization has done over the offseason to improve their team for 2010, starting with the Senior circuit
It’s the Superbowl tonight and Spring Training is almost here, but teams are still working hard to improve their rosters
In ‘The Machine’, Joe Posnanski tells the story of the 1975 Reds and in doing so reveals just why the Big Red Machine continues to be held in such high regard
It’s 41 days until pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training and 78 days until Opening day. I’m sure you are counting them down just like I am, but it’s not as though we are suffering from a lack of baseball news in the meantime. Quite the opposite. A week after Jason Bay and Matt [...]