Predicting All 68 MLB All-Stars
We're approaching the two-month mark of the baseball season, which means that we're approximately one month away from the "Midsummer Classic." Unlike most "All-Star Games", the MLB All-Star game determines whic...
Cubs Wrigley Field Renovations Could Return All-Star Game to Chicago
The Chicago Cubs haven't played host to an All-Star game since 1990, but that could be about to change. The Ricketts family is in the latter stages of major renovations to Wrigley Field and the surrounding neig...
‘Baseball as It Was’ Episode #38: Frank Tanana
The story of Frank Tanana's major league career can be divided into two acts.
He quickly rose to stardom with the California Angels as a strikeout pitcher – fanning as many as 269 in 1975. But a shoulder inj...
MLB Is Unjust With Enforcement Of Gambling Rules
Like most Americans and baseball fans, I tuned in to watch Todd Frazier win the 2015 Home Run Derby, as well as the American League defeat the National League 6-3 in the 86th All Star Game. These celebrations o...
HR Derby standout Joc Pederson: Beyond the Batting Average
Watching the Home Run Derby yesterday, we saw Todd Frazier put on an absolute show, but Frazier was the runner-up last year. I think this year's runner-up Joc Pederson, who hit 13 homers in the first round to a...
Max Scherzer Opts To Not Pitch In Upcoming All-Star Game
According to William Ladson of MLB.com, Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer will not pitch in the All-Star game on Tuesday. Instead he will take the mound on Sunday against the Baltimore Orioles, where he'll ...
The All-Star Case for Kershaw is Not Complicated
Over at the Los Angeles Times, Steve Dilbeck wrote a Jekyll-and-Hyde pair of commentaries, explaining in one why Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher Clayton Kershaw belongs in the All-Star Game, and in the other w...
‘Baseball as It Was’ Episode #29: Tom Verducci
Having earned plaudits as one of baseball's best and most respected journalists, Tom Verducci embarks on his second turn as an All-Star Game color analyst for FOX. Here's a lineup of some of the topics discusse...
Brock Holt: The American All-Star
The 2015 All-Star reserves were announced on Monday night and probably the biggest surprise of the night was Brock Holt of the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox have been a disappointment, so far, this season but eve...
Picking the rest of the AL All-Stars
The fan voting is complete and the starting lineups for the American and National Leagues are set with four Kansas City Royals leading the way for the AL. Catcher Salvador Perez, shortstop Alcides Escobar and o...