I promised to take you through my All-Star ballot, so here goes. Note that I’m not doing this by league, but by position. Infield today, catcher and outfield tomorrow, and no doubt a lot of nasty reader e-mail Friday. Remember the standard: the player who I consider to be the best in the league at…
Of Hits and Misses Bobby Bonds set the all-time single-season record for strikeouts with 189 in 1970, and his mark has weathered repeated challenges since. Mike Schmidt, Pete Incaviglia, Rob Deer and Cecil Fielder all struck out at least 180 times in a season. Bonds’s record has survived despite rampant whiff inflation throughout baseball in…
The Series–and you know what I’m talking about: The Series–is over. Throughout the New York/Boston media axis, sportswriters are returning to their blissful slumber, and as we enter the month of June, the New York Yankees find themselves in unfamiliar territory: second place. It’s really fairly incredible that a three-game series in late May can…
The Dodger Bullpen One of the problems Davey Johnson had in his first year as the Dodger manager was a lack of bench options, especially left-handed ones. Over the winter, Kevin Malone worked to get him more balance, trading away Eric Young and Raul Mondesi while bringing Shawn Green and F.P. Santangelo. Along with increased…