Welcome to the Bronx, Gary Sanchez
Gary Sanchez has played just three weeks’ worth of games in the majors so far, but he has already made a major impact for the New York Yankees. After a lackluster first four months that saw them waver between c...
Mark Teixeira Announces His Retirement
New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira will retire when the 2016 season concludes. Teixeira is 36 years old, and his eight-year, $180 million contract will expire at the end of this season. He has struggl...
Baseball’s Biggest Underachievers
The season’s second half is now well under way, and patterns are now mostly established for the kind of season each player will have. Daniel Murphy’s having a great season, Andrew McCutchen isn’t, and Matt Harv...
Is There a Curse for Home Run Derby Winners?
The 2016 Home Run Derby has now come and gone. Every year on the night before the All-Star Game, players step up and swat the ball out of the park as often as they can and as far as they can, often to great eff...
MLB 2016: Predictions for the Rest of the Season
We're roughly halfway through the 2016 season. The Chicago Cubs could be a team for the ages, while the New York Yankees are more a team for the aged. Trevor Story came out of nowhere, Ichiro Suzuki and David O...
What Should the New York Yankees Do?
The New York Yankees recently fell to last place. They barely made the playoffs last season, crawling into the Wild Card game before Dallas Keuchel and the Houston Astros ended their season. They didn't make th...
Royals Fans Have Seen It All
The nature of baseball fandom is often fickle. Team wins, gets more fans. Team loses, has fewer fans. There’s a subset in that mix of “true fans,” the ones who suffer through losing seasons and who wouldn’t kno...
David Ortiz is a Hall of Famer (We Think)
David Ortiz’s career will soon come to an end, and then comes the discussion about whether he belongs in the Hall of Fame. So far this year, Big Papi is having a season for the aged (pun intended). At 40 years ...
The Texas Rangers Will Get A New Ballpark
The Texas Rangers announced they will be moving into a new retractable-roof ballpark in 2023 or possibly earlier, ending their run at Globe Life Park. The Rangers' new ballpark will be located right near the so...
Bartolo Colon Hits His First Home Run, Brings Great Joy
New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon hit his first home run on Saturday. Two weeks shy of his forty-third birthday, Colon becomes the oldest player to hit his first career home run, breaking the record set by Ha...