Dave Roberts may have thought he was doing Clayton Kershaw’s legacy a favor when he kept the pitcher in Game Five of the 2019 NLDS to start
The tale of Yasiel Puig will most likely end up as the subject of a film someday. It has as many twists and turns as an epic drama, and would be as binge worthy as any HBO series. It’s nearly inconceivable what Puig went through to become a professional ballplayer in the United States.
In this blog post, we’re going back in time to take a look at some of Major League Baseball’s best pitchers ever—the ones whose names will always be associated with excellence when it comes to the art of pitching
According to Wins Above Replacement, these are the most valuable left-handers in each decade since 1900.
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We pick the best baseball player born every year since 1861.
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These are the nine biggest baseball stories you’ll be fascinated by in 2022. From the labor strife to Trevor Bauer to the return of Buck Showalter.
Once, when Max Scherzer was pitching in college for the University of Missouri, a teammate asked him during a game why he threw a fastball to a
There’s a famous line from one of the Peanuts cartoons where Linus is walking with Charlie Brown discussing the holiday season. Charlie is explaining how sad he
Jon Lester is beloved by two passionate armies of baseball fans due to his credentials as a big game pitcher. Once he retires, what are his Hall of Fame chances?
We discuss how Whitey Herzog nearly nabbed Don Sutton for the A’s, and how Sutton doctored the baseball.
In less than two weeks the 2020 baseball season will (finally) begin. But it will be unlike any season we’ve ever seen in professional baseball. The league
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The traditional Quality Start goes back several decades. A Quality Start is awarded to a starter when he pitches AT LEAST 6 innings AND allows 3 earned runs OR LESS. But it has limits. That’s why we’ve created the Quality Quality Start or QQS. We use it to find the best starting pitchers, the pitchers who truly impact their team’s chances to win a game.