Clayton Kershaw Will Never Get Over It How can this keep happening? How can Clayton Kershaw, who even if he is no longer quite Clayton Kershaw is still Clayton Kershaw, keep going to pieces in October? Could it just be some Powerball-odds-le run of bad luck, with no greater cause? After all, every pitcher has…
DetailsHas MLB Pulled a Switcheroo with the Baseballs This October? For a moment, it looked like Will Smith would be the hero. In the bottom of the ninth, sandwiched between the two cataclysmic half-innings that abruptly ended the 106-win Dodgers’ season, they had a brief flicker of hope when with one out and one on,…
DetailsGabe Kapler fired by Phillies in latest MLB axing Mickey Callaway has company. Phillies manager Gabe Kapler became the latest NL East manager to be fired, with the team ending his two-year stint Thursday, according to multiple reports. In his first-ever major league managing gig, Kapler, 44, went 161-163, and failed to end the team’s…
DetailsHow Bob Tufts more than lived up to his ‘Future Star’ billing In the most technical sense, Bob Tufts did not live up to the “Future Star” title that Topps bestowed on him back in 1982. In reality, though? Bob was a star and then some — at more positions than Ben Zobrist, from more…
DetailsGabe Kapler dismissed as Phillies manager | MLB.com I’m not a fan of the way the Phillies do things.The Phillies have parted ways with manager Gabe Kapler, a source tells MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki. The team has not commented. Source: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/newsstand/discussion/gabe_kapler_dismissed_as_phillies_manager_mlbcom
DetailsHiring 2005 White Sox is the hottest managerial trend in Japan In Major League Baseball, the hottest managerial trend is hiring guys with no experience, grabbing them out of the front office or broadcast booth to helm World Series contenders. In Japan, the hottest managerial trend is hiring members of the 2005 White Sox. Last…
DetailsMisery Index: Play-by-Play Breakdown of Braves’ Brutal First Inning in NLDS Game 5 Every baseball disaster has its own particular terroir. But, generally, they fall into one of two genres. There is the sudden individual moment: the walk-off, the disastrous error, the grand slam. This draws a clear line in a game of before and…
DetailsBraves’ [stuff] doesn’t work in the playoffs, either The Athletics have been something of a punching bag over the years because executive vice president and president of baseball operations Billy Beane was famously quoted in Moneyball saying, “My [stuff] doesn’t work in the playoffs. My job is to get us to the playoffs. What happens…
DetailsColumn: MLB needs to put Shoeless Joe back in the game GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — In a different time, it was an attractive little two-bedroom home, constructed in the early 1940s out of red brick and owned by one of the greatest players ever to grace the diamond, a towering yet tragic figure who lived…
DetailsPhillies To Fire Gabe Kapler Gabe Kapler will not return as manager of the Phillies in 2020, Bob Brookover of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports (via Twitter). The dismissal of Kapler, who had been signed through next season, creates a nearly unprecedented eighth managerial vacancy around the Major Leagues. More to come. Source: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/10/phillies-fire-gabe-kapler-manager.html
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