Always play like Roberto Clemente; a story on the greatest day in Brooklyn Dodgers history; trying to break the habit of rooting for the Yankees; words on players liked for their words; Casey should have been IBB’d; we honest to goodness found the least watchable hitter in the game; beware the October buzzsaw
Tyler Skaggs, grief, and magical thinking; when opioid overdoses make you think of home; Trevor Rosenthal will (and did) record an out again; Willians Astudillo is in the zone; keeping up with all of the Jeff Joneses; the 2030 Front Office All-Star Game
Which contemporary pitcher best exemplifies the phrase “life throws you a curveball” when your mother says she’s marrying your uncle?; a review of Ty Kelly’s poem about David Wright; crowd sourcing a take on the three-batter reliever minimum when your writing arm is tired
MLB The Show is going multi-platform for the first time, and that could be big; Baby Yoda reacts to the winter meetings; city flags symbolize a lot about MLB teams
The flaw in judging those who don’t know everything that came before (the Billie Eilishs of MLB); the sadness in Ichiro torching teachers; the audacity of Joey Gallo flaunting his new threads.
How Ryan Costello lived; three texts that begin with ‘I’ for three friends I recently visited; policing the new/old Padres, Brewers, Diamondbacks uniforms
Gabe Kapler and Farhan Zaidi refuse to learn; the Astros lead one writer to make a shocking confession; a baseball advent calendar; getting Gerrit “Salieri” Cole to step up his game
Words on birds and teams that don’t yearn; 2019 words for 2019; words on players liked for their words
Good beat Evil, weird; Clank?; Calling someone else’s shot is a fine art
There has yet to be an Indian in the big leagues; there aren’t many female scouts either; the Tampa Bay Rays whiffed on one front office hire
Welcome to beautiful Peoria, USA, baby Mariners; an ode to the Nationals that came before; “old” MVPs like Howie Kendrick prove it ain’t over for us yet
Maybe it was time the Dodgers were the mouse; the Yankees are always the cat; there are a lot of wins in this red Camry
You could stop wondering how many calories Pete Alonso burned on his home run trots now; how missing the playoffs helps you look better in wedding photos; if you hate seeing a TV character get embarrassed, you really hate the Wild Card games
Félix Hernández as personal muse; 19 inning marathon games are actually good; fixing baseball by making it the NFL
It’s only unearned arrogance if you can’t relate; we honest to goodness found the least watchable hitter in the game
Fixing the MLB Draft by making it the Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana Draft (there’s confetti and a DJ); when Statcast fails us, we cry inside; Brooklyn is a winner again