Because sometimes things just need to be said….
On paper, all 30 teams had a shot at Yoshinobu Yamamoto. On paper, I also had a shot at dunking on LeBron. Technically true, completely useless. When he came over from Japan, the Dodgers landed him for 12 years and $325 million, plus a posting fee of just over $50 million to his old team, …
Baseball wants to give back eight games a year and I’d take that deal before they finish the sentence. The playoff part of the pitch, though, is where they lose me. Here’s what MLB put in front of the players union today: a 154-game regular season starting in 2029, a best-of-seven Division Series, and a …
I never expected to write a sentence defending baseball’s owners. But here we are, six months into MLB’s ugliest labor fight in a generation, and I keep landing on the same uncomfortable conclusion: this time, they might actually have a point. Formal CBA talks between MLB and the players’ union started on May 12. The …
Major League Baseball is on pace for about 0.5 errors a game this season. That would break the record of roughly 0.52 a game set just two years ago, and five of the lowest error-rate seasons in the sport’s 150-year history have all landed since 2021. Nobody got better at catching a baseball. Scorers did. …
Nine teams got hit with a luxury tax penalty after both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the most in the sport’s history, a level of tax-dodging math that would embarrass anyone else’s business plan. The Dodgers alone paid $169.4 million of it last year. They still won. That’s the whole argument for a salary cap, …
Eight straight wins, capped off by an 11-7 sweep-clincher over Detroit this weekend. For a few days, Kauffman Stadium felt like 2024 again, back before this team apparently forgot how to win a baseball game for four straight months. Here’s the number that doesn’t make the highlight package: 58-74. That’s the record after the streak, …
Bunting is having a real moment in Major League Baseball this year, and I hate that I have to admit some of it is actually working. As a lifelong Royals fan, I’ve spent years watching a perfectly good rally get strangled because someone in the dugout decided a free out was a good trade. So …
Spoiler alert: NO. Okay, maybe they aren’t terrible, but they aren’t good. There is some talent there, we do see flashes of promises but can this organization, this leadership get the most of it? Again, spoiler alert NO. Get my full rant (maybe more like scattered thoughts) in the video below….. And because the end …
Nearly 5 years to the day after the game, I laid in bed awake with this in my head. Not the first time. This time I got up and typed it out. A few months after that I recorded it. I was surprised how often I got choked up, even on the 3rd attempt. It …
Because absolutely nobody asked I thought I’d share my thoughts on the Royals off season moves. Keep in mind, the off season is far from over but as the end of the year approaches it is mostly over so now seems like as good a time as any. There has been much more discussion and …
I keep hearing the Royals as the “sleeper pick” to win the AL Central. I just don’t see it. I’ve been a Royals fan for my entire life and as a high school student enjoy winning the World Series in ’85 very much but it’s been a little lean since then. So let me say …
Don’t even get me started on the vote that decided an over priced rennovation to a 35 year old stadium was a better option for the Royals than a Downtown stadium. Or the ridiculous scare tactics and lies used in the extensive advertising campaign to pass the ridiculous deal that led to rennovations instead of …