Five Stat Friday: Opening Week Edition
Baseball is back. Those three words are music to my ears. With baseball back, there are always opportunities to find cool stats from the games. Let’s take a look at the five best stats from this past...
View Article4/12/16: Who Should be in your DraftKings Lineup?
It’s a new day, which means a new opportunity. We are here to help you build the best possible DFS lineup. Here are the must plays and value plays for today’s slate (values are from DraftKings). SP...
View ArticleFive Stat Friday: Week Two
1.The Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves are not off to great starts this season. And that is being nice. Both teams have failed to record a win this season and sit at 0-9. It is early in the season,...
View ArticleFive Stat Friday: Week Three
1. Chris Archer is an elite pitcher. We all know that. But he is not off to a very good start – and that is being nice. Archer’s WHIP sits at 2.08, which means that he is allowing over two base runners...
View ArticleFive Stat Friday: Week Five
1. The reigning AL CY Young winner, Dallas Keuchel, is off to a not-so-great start. He is currently 2-4 with a 5.11 ERA through six starts. His slow start can be attributed to his inability to find the...
View ArticleFive Stat Friday: Week Six
1. Maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the prices. Maybe broadcasts have gotten that good. No matter what it is, attendance is down around baseball. Baseball is averaging 28,884 people per game this...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Five Fascinating Statistics
1. By now you have heard about Mookie Betts‘ incredible week. It was not even a week, actually. Betts hit five home runs in a span of seven at-bats on Tuesday and Wednesday against the Baltimore...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Michael Pineda
The New York Yankees have not been very good this season. Their lack of success has a lot to do with their lackluster offense, but Michael Pineda‘s struggles this season have also played a significant...
View ArticleWeek in Review: Five Fascinating Facts
1. What happened to the art of stealing bases? The current stolen base per-game average in baseball this year is 0.50. If that held throughout the rest of the season, it would be the lowest mark since...
View ArticleMid-Week Review: Five Fascinating Statistics
1. Alexei Ramirez is on this list for all the wrong reasons. He signed a one year, $4 million dollar contract with the San Diego Padres this past offseason and it seemed to be a low-risk, high-reward...
View ArticleMid-Week Review: All-Star Week Edition
1. Brandon Guyer isn’t a name you hear very often, but he currently has been hit by a pitch a major-league leading 20 times this season. Since 1901, only 81 times has a player ever been hit at least 20...
View ArticleRed Sox Acquire LHP Drew Pomeranz from the Padres
The Boston Red Sox are back at it again. With still over two weeks until the trade deadline, The Red Sox have just completed their third trade of the month by acquiring All-Star pitcher Drew Pomeranz...
View ArticleCubs Acquire Aroldis Chapman from the Yankees
It has long been debated whether the New York Yankees would be sellers at the deadline for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. The full answer to that question remains to be seen, but...
View ArticleBlue Jays Acquire Melvin Upton Jr. from the Padres
It was inevitable that the San Diego Padres were going to deal Melvin Upton Jr. before the trade deadline. The only question was where Upton was going to land. It seemed to come down to the Toronto...
View ArticleAlex Rodriguez Deserves to Play this Week
Alex Rodriguez is supposedly retiring after Friday’s game in Boston. I say supposedly because I am not buying that Friday will be Rodriguez’s last game. I am buying that it will be his last game as a...
View ArticleLooking back: Yankees made right moves despite elimination
Last night, the New York Yankees season once again ended without a postseason victory, as they lost to the Houston Astros in the AL Wild Card game, 3-0. The Yankees have not won a postseason game in...
View ArticleReport: Yankees Likely to Pursue Jeff Samardzija
The Yankees off-season started prematurely after their 3-0 defeat to the Houston Astros this past Wednesday. The Yankees have a lot of decisions to make this winter, including whether to target an ace...
View ArticleMemo to Fans: Enjoy the Game
I have noticed a certain trend this postseason, maybe it is because of Twitter, which gives everyone access to unlimited opinions, but there seems to be a lot of complaining this postseason. Just...
View ArticleReport: Masahiro Tanaka has Bone Spur Removed
The Yankees announced today that their ace, Masahiro Tanaka, underwent surgery to remove a bone spur from his elbow. Mark Feinsand of the NY Daily News reported that this was a pre-exisiting condition...
View ArticleExclusive Interview With Chris Antonetti
Chris Antonetti, President of Baseball Operations for the Cleveland Indians, was nice enough to grant me a fifteen-minute phone interview on Monday morning. Antonetti has worked in the Indians...
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