Prospectus Feature: Investigating Good Defense at First Base$
4/01
Interviews with players reveal first base to be a more complicated position than many people assume.
Prospectus Feature: 2019 Staff Predictions
3/28
BP staffers predict the division standings, award winners, and World Series champions for 2019.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: What if the Yankees Spent Like it Was 2003?$
3/25
Just imagine Brian Cashman on a shopping spree this winter.
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Prospectus Feature: Traded To Be Hated$
3/14
What happens when a great player for one team becomes "dead money" for another.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightCould Mike Trout’s Amazing Rookie Season Have Happened in Today’s MLB?$
3/07
If he were a prospect today, would Mike Trout experience the same service-time suppression as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and other top prospects?
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Ted Williams and the Unwritten Rules of Celebration
2/28
Ted Williams ran headlong into conformist baseball culture and became an early casualty in the Players With Personality vs. Fun Police battle that still rages today.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Finding This Season’s Oliver Drake$
2/20
Not everyone loves the Drake.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Confounding World of a National League DH$
2/19
How various NL teams might have adjusted to the DH switch this season.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: The Cubs Want You to Know They’re Not Affiliated With Joe Ricketts
2/11
Splinter News released emails from the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade’s inbox in which he espoused a variety of paranoid, bigoted, and conspiracy-tinged views.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Baseball and Jazz
2/06
For more than a century, baseball and jazz have been a duet.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Zone Control$
1/23
Prospect profiles and markers that may have been overrated or underrated based on historical data.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: MLB’s Response to Addison Russell Continues Pattern of Failure
1/18
If MLB doesn’t change, it will continue to send loud, clear, and often heartbreaking messages to those who would love the game.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightHow the KBO Successfully Marketed to a Bigger, Younger Audience$
1/17
Can the KBO teach MLB anything about attracting a younger crowd?
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Anything But Routine$
1/15
Felix Hernandez, Max Scherzer, CC Sabathia, and other pitchers talk to BP about their pre-start routines.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightProspectus Feature: Today is the Day for Charlie Montoyo
11/06
Get to know the Blue Jays' new manager, from someone who covered (and learned from) him in the minors.
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