What is New with MLB in 2022?
With a preliminary deal reached between the MLB and MLBPA, the 2022 season of baseball may now commence. For the 2022 MLB season, there will be a slew of
What is New with MLB in 2022?
With a preliminary deal reached between the MLB and MLBPA, the 2022 season of baseball may now commence. For the 2022 MLB season, there will be a slew of
Sports "Codes" and Society
Big League Stew recently posted an article from Jason Turbow on "The 'Code': Ten Unwritten Baseball Rules," drawing from his book, The Baseball Codes. He
MLB Umps Not so Color Blind?
The racial bias analysis of strikes-balls decisions of MLB umps by UT-Austin professor Daniel Hamermesh and coauthors (Parsons, Sulaeman, Yates) has generated
MLB Lockout Set to Delay Start of the Season: This Is How You Cope
If you are a keen baseball fan, then you might know all about the union dispute between the players and the MLB league that has led to a lockdown that has brought major league baseball to a halt.Th...
Why MLBPA Slow to Protect Non-Users?
Milwaukee Brewer Ryan Braun surpised the baseball world this week by admitting his use of steroids and accepting a suspension. Of course, after failing a
Steroid Use and HOF Debate Heats Up
This afternoon, MLB.com posted the results of this year's Hall of Fame balloting. This has been an ongoing interest of mine partly because of the hotly
MLB Umps: Evaluated but not Incentivized
The egregiously poor call against in the Yankees-Orioles game when Mark Texeira slid into first base throws attention back on to several issues with MLB
Playoff Roulette
Jeffrey Beckmann at BleacherReport presents a slideshow of the "50 Best Teams" not to win a World Series. Of the teams on this side of 1950, the 1996 Braves
Pitch Til You Lose
Game 1 of the ALCS between the Tigers and Yankees once again spotlighted the flaws in the use of MLB "closers." I've written about the topic in How Much v.
The World is Not Enough
Ryan Jazayerli at Grantland offers a thorough and insightful survey of the demise of the Astros in "Rock Bottom in H-Town." Many turns to the story -- hiring
How Much v. How Well -- Michael Jordan as "6th Man"?
In 1968, Gates Brown hit .450 as a pinch hitter and .370 in total with an OPS of 1.12. Yet, Brown did not register in the year end MVP voting. His AL record
Something for Everybody: MLB's Mechanism Design
Continuing my recent Yankees theme ... in a curiously long post on his blog, SI writer Joe Posnanski considers the effect of MLB's playoff structure on the