In the wake of this year’s Hall of Fame voting season, and to help remove the bad taste left by some of the mind-numbingly bad arguments I’ve heard and read over the last few weeks for or against ...
You probably don’t have to do much guesswork to figure out what my Hall of Fame ballot will look like when the staff puts out its hypotheticals. You’d probably think that as a Baseball Prospectus ...
Designated hitter. Interleague play. Wild cards. Maple bats. Cowhide balls. Jets. It's a good thing Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, whose vision for the game makes myopic umpires Jim Joyce and ...
I get into a lot of baseball arguments which end up with people telling me how damn clear the rules and morals are and how I’m a jerk for not understanding that. How breaking the rules is cheating, ...
Baseball arguments are the best, and thank goodness it is nearly time to turn our attention again to that kinder, gentler game. The reason baseball arguments are best is because there is so much ...
It seems a little unfair. In 2015, the Pittsburgh Pirates had the second-best record in all of baseball. Arguments aside about whether that makes them the second-best team in all of baseball, Andrew ...
The battle continues between Major League Baseball and the City of San Jose. Lawyers for the city filed new arguments in federal court Friday. The new arguments say baseball's "illegal and collusive ...
Disclaimer: This was written as a philosophy paper. Many of the baseball arguments have been simplified for the sake of not bowling over my egghead professor with baseball terminology, or to enhance ...
The golden voice of 56 baseball summers sang to Curt Smith on Pennsylvania Avenue one autumn night. The World Series was going on, and after a late evening at the White House, where he was a ...