Nationals Arm Race

Susana walks off the mound after injuring his arm. I’m hoping he’s wiping away sweat and not tears. Photo via milb.com This is the 5th monthly review of all our rotations for the 2025, checking in on the latest month’s worth of production and doing some analysis. I popped into baseball-reference.com to start this work, and realized we’re now 30 games under .500. The … [Read more...] about Nats End of Aug 2025 Rotation Check-In

Hall of Famer and big baseball thinker John Smoltz. Photo via Atlanta Parent We talked about Manfred’s expansion floating last week, and lots of pundits out there are doing the same thought exercises related to where two new teams might pop up (Salt Lake City and Nashville … or maybe Portland and Charlotte), and then how we’d realign to go to an NFL-style 8 division … [Read more...] about John Smoltz’s ideas for Expansion are awesome

A 40-year sustained record of … destruction of the sport, Manfred and Selig MLB’s commissioner has long been on the record saying that, once the league resolved the two big stadium issues it has had (Oakland and Tampa Bay), that they’d pursue expansion. He’s been saying this for years, and as recently as mid-2023 intimated the same. In fact, I wrote a big chunk of this … [Read more...] about MLB Expansion is coming … along with even more realignment tumult?

This is probably what Manfred wishes Harper had looked like during their clubhouse confrontation. Photo via GQ Magazine I wrote this post the day the event happened, but we’ve had one thing after another and now its 3 weeks on. None the less, it’s still a topic i’m pretty passionate about, so lets post this. So, the MLB commissioner (who works for the owners, lest we … [Read more...] about Harper curses out the Commissioner – is he right?