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With no baseball for the time being due to Covid-19, we continue our series of breaking down upcoming Hall of Fame candidates. Today, we take a look at the interesting case of Torii Hunter. To view the other articles in this series, click here. Hunter's case is an interesting one in large part due to another... Continue Reading →
With MLB and other sports sidelined right now due to the coronavirus, welcome to part two of our future Hall of Fame class breakdowns. Today we'll be looking at Mark Buehrle, a five-time All-Star who won the 2005 World Series with the Chicago White Sox, where he spent 12 of his 16 MLB seasons. Pre-MLB... Continue Reading →
As most people are aware, there are no professional sports happening in North America, or most of the world, right now due to the coronavirus. I've done MLB Hall of Fame ballot previews/my picks each of the last two years, and figured I could use this time to get a head start on future ballots.... Continue Reading →
Last year, we talked about who deserved to make the Baseball Hall of Fame the most among players on the Baseball Writers Association of America Hall of Fame Ballot, and I mostly agreed with the writers. Eight of the ten players I said I would vote for received greater than 50% of the vote, with... Continue Reading →
I obviously don't have an official MLB Awards vote. If I did, however, these would be my picks. I'll be making picks for MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Reliever of the Year, and Silver Slugger Awards, I don't think I watched enough baseball this year to make good Gold Glove picks and not... Continue Reading →
Everyone who follows baseball has heard, by now, about the all-time high level of home runs in 2019. With that has come, and will continue to come in September, a lot of home run records. Some of these records have interesting stories to them, so we decided to take a look at the most interesting... Continue Reading →
We've passed the trade deadline, and by now I'm ready to make fun of myself for my start of the season predictions (totally missed on the Rays and Rangers). I also didn't do any awards predictions in the preseason article, and now that we're about two-thirds of the way through the season the picture is... Continue Reading →
The Detroit Tigers are not a fun team to talk about in 2019. They have the worst offensive stats in the American League (by far), they've suffered injuries across their major league roster and they're one of the worst teams in baseball. But they have some players who have performed well enough to be shipped... Continue Reading →
The 2016 World Series featured the two teams with the longest World Series drought in Major League Baseball at the time. The Cubs ended the longest championship drought in major sports history, giving the longest active World Series drought to the Cleveland Indians, who haven't won a title since 1948. The 2016 season had more... Continue Reading →
Welcome to segment 2 of the "What the MLB Was Like When" series, where we'll be focusing on the 2017 season, when the Houston Astros last won the title. For the last article, on 2018 and the Red Sox's last championship, click here. To read other articles from this series, click here (this won't show you much until... Continue Reading →
Murphy's Field 