The Rangers would seem to have a big edge in their starting rotation on paper, but the Yankees have the benefit of starting with their best guy on the mound…

It’s Acoustic week on “Dancing With The Playoff Stats,” Show three has brought us closer to the contestants than ever before. They’ve played out the Division Series and we’ve gotten to know them well. This past week the contestants performed the Tango and the Rumba at the ballpark. Can you feel their sweat as they […]

I was wrong on who would emerge from the Rangers-Rays series (Evan Longoria did to my prediction what Garrett Atkins and Matt Wieters did to Baseball Prospectus’s 2009 fantasy projections), but I stand behind my statement that those were the two most balanced teams in the AL and that whoever won that match-up would end […]

A classic “pitching and defense” team. But can they manage to get a hit off of Halladay, Oswalt and Hamels? And, if they do, can they get to home plate?

Gotta love the offense but the mediocre pitching and defense is somewhat disconcerting. Then again, they pitched pretty damn well against the Twins…

Rangers 5, Rays 1: Cliff Lee was ridiculous again, striking out 11, walking no one and topping it all off by rescuing those Chilean miners (note: I had a few last night so I may have this mixed up). It’s why the Rangers got him. It’s why everyone else covets him. It just blows my […]

Here’s a look at what Rangers and Rays hitters will have flying at them in tonight’s deciding Game 5.

I greatly enjoyed my victory Monte Cristo in the warm Indian Summer evening last night. (I was able to partake in such an indulgence because my wife was away.) The Giants dispatched the Braves, as expected. But the margin of San Francisco victory was far less comfortable than the three-games-to-one total implies, as every game […]

Giants 3, Braves 2: The micro — along with a Bobby Cox farewell — you can read here. For now let me add that if the Giants play any more close games, they’re going to kill Aubrey Huff: “I don’t know how you can be a fan of this team sometimes,” he said after the […]

The Arizona Fall League Hall of Fame boasts some impressive names. Members include such baseball royalty as Albert Pujols, Derek Jeter and Roy Halladay. But the biggest draw of the league is not necessarily the potential Hall of Famers in action, but the proximity of these players to the major leagues. Unlike standard minor leagues […]