NL Wild Card Game 1: Phillies Down Cardinals With Walks and Soft Singles$

NL Wild Card Game 1 Previews: Can the Wild Card Round be Remotely Normal?$

We’re Having Fun: A Diary of a Phillies Clinch$

TA: The Phillies Shore up With Thor, More$

An Incredibly Normal Week with the Incredibly Normal Phillies$

Jean Segura’s Newfound Power isn’t an Accident$

Tools Play$

NL East Contenders Riding the Struggle Bus$

Making Sense of Aaron Nola’s 2021$

Just Pay MiLB Players a Living Wage

If MLB teams would just pay minor-league players a living wage, then the problems facing minor-league players would vanish overnight.

Rubbing Mud: Baseball’s Favorite False Equation$

Prospectus Feature: The Coming Chaos in the NL Central and NL East$

Short Relief: Crimes of Bird Law, Fashion, and Metaphors

It was the end of the seventies in Canada, and the seagulls just weren’t right. Lake Ontario, said to be the most polluted freshwater in the world in 1979, was warping its herring gull population. Pesticides and industrial waste in the region were dulling their parental instincts: They were abandoning their nests, laying fewer eggs,…

Prospectus Feature: Ellen Adair on Sabermetrics, Homers, and Sportswriting (Part 2)

The interview with actress Ellen Adair concludes with a discussion of sabermetrics, sportswriting, dream scripts, and more.

Prospectus Feature: Ellen Adair on Baseball, Pace of Play, and Empathy (Part 1)

Actress Ellen Adair talks falling in love with baseball, pace of play, and much more in part one of a conversation with Scott Orgera.

Short Relief: Words of Encouragement

We went to the Indian Wells Tennis Garden this weekend for the BNP Paribas Open, also known as the Indian Wells Masters. We saw many tennis players, and all of them played tennis the same basic way. Sure, some were big hitters without much foot speed and some were small and fast and defense-oriented, but…