MLB Who’s That Guy? Ordinary Players Who Could Have Extraordinary Moments in the MLB Division Series For each team, we’ve selected a player who is relatively unknown to the wider baseball world who has a chance to change that in a hurry in the MLB Division… 5 days ago Zach Crizer
MLB Who Should Win the NL Rookie of the Year Photo Finish Between Merrill and Skenes? Rookie of the Year is a simple award that inspires complicated calculus. Though not prescribed, the imprecise art of projection inevitably enters the fray. It’s only natural to internalize the… 4 weeks ago Zach Crizer
MLB MLB Playoff Predictions: What Our Projections Say About Baseball’s Bunched up Contenders There are several tight races and still much to be decided over the final month of the regular season. So we’re diving into our MLB playoff predictions to get a… 1 month ago Zach Crizer
MLB Anti-Fastball? Red Sox Starters Have Cut Back on the Heater, but the Strategy Is Not That Simple More than a month into the season, the Boston Red Sox have the best team ERA in baseball thanks in large part to an unexpectedly dynamic duo atop their rotation.… 5 months ago Zach Crizer
MLB Does the Search for a Starting Pitcher Now Start in the Bullpen? When the Tampa Bay Rays moved Zack Littell into the starting rotation last July, he was 160 games into a major-league career that, by all indications, would be spent as… 6 months ago Zach Crizer
MLB Will Anthony Volpe’s New Approach at the Plate Be More Sustainable? Anthony Volpe’s new approach in Year 2 was foretold as loudly as his rookie arrival, but so far, the second prophecy looks more reliable than the first. We examine why.… 6 months ago Zach Crizer
MLB MLB Predictions: Picks and Bold Forecasts for Every Division in 2024 Opening day is almost here, and with the approach of Thursday’s full slate of Major League Baseball games comes the moment when the logic and reason of projections gives way… 7 months ago Zach Crizer, Ryan Fagan
MLB MLB Award Predictions: The MVPs, Cy Youngs, Rookies of the Year and More in 2024 The AL Rookie of the Year race is absolutely loaded this year, isn’t it? What about the NL MVP chase with Shohei Ohtani resigned to a DH role in 2024?… 7 months ago Ryan Fagan, Zach Crizer
MLB MLB Breakout Players 2024: Learn Their Games Before They Become Household Names It feels good to beat the crowd — to a great band, to a cool restaurant, to the next style that everyone is about to be wearing. The concept carries… 7 months ago Zach Crizer
MLB The Super Bullpen: Is the Astros’ Josh Hader Signing a Show of Force or Sign of Vulnerability? After seven straight American League Championship Series appearances and six AL West titles in those seven years, the Houston Astros begin each season as kings of the castle. Even in… 7 months ago Zach Crizer