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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 →
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 part 1 of a series on what the MLB was like the last time each team won the World Series. Three of the five teams that have been to a World Series but haven't won one will get an article for the last year they went, but the Rangers, along with the Mariners... Continue Reading →
I know, technically the season has started as the A's and Mariners have played a two-game set in Japan to officially start the regular season. I wanted to wait as long as possible to see if Dallas Keuchel or Craig Kimbrel would sign before the regular season started. I want to clarify: I am NOT... Continue Reading →
The MLB announced a few rules changes coming out of the Spring meetings between the MLB and MLBPA that will take effect either in 2019 or 2020, many of which have pace-of-play implications. Some of these changes are receiving unilateral support, while others are being picked apart by baseball purists, who say that Rob Manfred... Continue Reading →
With the Super Bowl getting further in the rear view mirror, and the sports world turning their attention on March Madness and the final stretch of the NBA and NHL seasons, it got me thinking about a common gripe among fans of certain sports: "there's no disparity in the league." From the Patriots making the... Continue Reading →
Murphy's Field 