If you were starting a team from scratch today, without salary or service-time considerations, who should you pick first?
PECOTA helps pick the best player in baseball for each age group.
Once in Greece, I asked for a “Wednesday” (τέταρτη) kilo of feta instead of a “quarter” (τέταρτο). The lady behind the cheese counter in a grocery store in suburban Athens looked at me for a minute, told me my Greek wasn’t very good, and then asked me to repeat what I wanted. I’ve told that…
Juan Soto, Ronald Acuna, Shohei Ohtani, Matt Chapman, Javier Baez, and Alex Bregman highlight this season’s biggest breakouts.
On the west-bound edge of the turn lane, covers splayed and pages waving, a book. Some traffic-based injury—or the hands that jettisoned the book—dislodged a small chunk of pages, which lay a little more centered in the lane. What was knowable about the book in the few seconds it was visible as I drove by?…
Baseball players as Marvel characters? Yup.
INT. RED SOX LOCKER ROOM – JULY 11, 1914 The RED SOX COACH stares out a window as it rains. COACH: We won four times in April and tied twice. People are furious. My wife is trying to convince me to fake our deaths and leave town forever. Ah, what to do, what to do……