Tag: mlb
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Rich vs Poor
The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years). Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…
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Keith Hernandez: Greatest Moments
In this post, we will look at some of the greatest moments of Keith Hernandez, who played for 17 seasons mostly for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets. In Hernandez’s storied career he accomplished the following: In addition, many consider Hernandez to be the best defensive first baseman of all time. As…
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What about a Designated Fielder?
Carrying on with our discussion of the designated hitter (DH) from our previous post, we thought a bit further about the rationale of replacing the pitcher with another hitter. It appears prior to the American League adopting the DH rule in 1973 that the first real consideration to adopt a DH occurred in the late…
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A Not So Perfect Game
Although it has already been covered elsewhere, it is worth repeating that there is now an opportunity for a pitcher to pitch a perfect game yet lose under the newish MLB rules of placing an automatic runner on second base at the beginning of extra innings. Yes, a pitcher or combined pitchers could get everyone…
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We Second, Third, Fourth, Etc. that Thought
This will be a short post, but we encourage you to check out this SI.com article written by Nolan Ruth who covers sports in Texas. By the way, who should know more about baseball than someone with the last name of Ruth! The Pitch Clock Will do More Harm for Baseball than Good This article…
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Not Fast Enough!
Baseball games contain approximately 18 minutes of actual action. The rest is made up of tossing the ball back to the pitcher, the time between innings, instant replay challenges, pitching changes, etc. In a previous post (MLB vs Other Leagues) we noted that the average game lasted about three hours and 10 minutes. That means…
Baseball Purist 