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Sports Central
October 4, 2012
Joshua Duffy |
New Playoff Structure a Swing and a Miss Let's get right to the heart of the matter: while Bud Selig's new expanded playoffs has resulted in some extra hope in September, it has left open the potential for some serious competitive unfairness in October.   |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central
May 31, 2006
Joe Pietaro |
MLB at a Glance as We Pass Memorial Day Baseball fans can start to see how their teams are shaping up by perusing the standings at the end of May. |
Sports Central
September 24, 2007
Phil Backert |
MLB Playoff Chase Down to Final Stretch The last week of the season in Major League Baseball could not be more exciting for fans as the hunt for October hits the final stretch run. |
Sports Central
September 26, 2011
Paul Foeller |
Kings of the Hill The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees have been the unquestioned leaders of their respective leagues some time now. |
Sports Central
June 17, 2011
Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Wild Card Drama The National League has a fraction of the excitement contained within the American League as we enter the final two weeks of the 2013 major league baseball season. September baseball is bound to be exciting. |
Sports Central
September 2, 2010
Corrie Trouw |
The Bottom Line of Bottoming Out The willingest spenders like the Yankees and Red Sox receive mixed messages from their sports: Try to win as much as you can, but you better not use all of your resources to do it. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2011
Ross Lancaster |
The Run Home Despite the fact that the trade deadline doesn't always have blockbuster deals, it does signify that the regular season has only two months remaining and that pennant races are about to heat up. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Salon.com
July 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
Sports Central
September 9, 2004
Martin Hawrysko |
September May Bring Baseball's Best While the playoffs are still three weeks away, the regular season is far from over. Ignore these final weeks, in anticipation of the actual postseason, and you might miss out on some of the best that baseball has to offer. |
Sports Central
July 18, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The 10 Biggest Series For the Second Half As the baseball season moves to the second half, to the trade deadline, into pennant races and the cooler weather of September, there are series that carry added significance for playoff spots. |
Sports Central
July 12, 2011
Adam Russell |
Division Races Will Come Down to Wire This baseball season could end up being one of the most exciting, down-to-the-wire season's we've seen in some time. |
Sports Central
July 14, 2005
Derek Daggett |
MLB Second-Half Predictions Armed with 80+ games of knowledge, here is how the remainder of the 2005 Major League Baseball season should break down, division by glorious division. |
Salon.com
May 2, 2001
Allen Barra |
Damn Twins! The standings better turn upside down, or baseball's "small markets can't compete" argument is going to look pretty silly... |
AskMen.com
April 6, 2013
Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
Sports Central
July 4, 2012
Greg Suttich |
Hot and Not Heading to the All-Star Break The Yankees, Rangers, and Angels are playing the best baseball in the American League. The National League has seen the surprising Washington Nationals post the best record, with the Giants now flexing their muscle in the NL West. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2002
Allen Barra |
Strike 4 The baseball deal will either make the game worse for fans or it'll be a sham that won't hold salaries down. The owners came close to wrecking the season for this? |
Sports Central
December 26, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Central
December 25, 2008
Sean Crowe |
The Yankees Have Ruined My Christmas Someone needs to remind the Yankees that the United States is going through a pretty bad recession. |
Fast Company
November 2003
Keith H. Hammonds |
Beane's Magic Back in May, in "How to Play Beane Ball," we wrote glowingly of general manager Billy Beane and his Oakland A's baseball team which, we predicted, "almost certainly will win a lot more games than it will lose this season." We're exhaling now: At press time, the A's were 90-60. |
Sports Central
July 21, 2009
Corrie Trouw |
The American Premier League While a remarkable 18 teams were within five games of a playoff spot on Monday morning, such parity is more of a Bud Selig parlor trick than an exhibition of competitive balance. |
Sports Central
May 7, 2004
Eric Poole |
Beane's Fault Lies Not in Himself, But in His Stars The notion that Beane's teams are equipped to win during the regular season but not in the playoffs has some merit only in the fact that the A's general manager acquires the players he does out of necessity. |
Sports Central
August 25, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
AL Wild Card Wild Cards Here's a look at the chase for the AL wild card and examine some possible wild cards each team has. |
Sports Central
September 12, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Yanks/Sox Series Inevitable Are you ready to see the World Series pit the Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees again? As much as these two rivals cannot pitch, play defense, or close out games, they do present the most appealing matchup in the NLCS. |
Sports Central
July 10, 2008
Chris Gonzales |
My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Rays That's right, the leader of the AL East is not a powerhouse with a huge payroll from the Northeast, but a young, upstart team from the Sunshine State. |
Sports Central
August 13, 2012
Paul Foeller |
Centralized Power Only three players in the National League rank in the top 10 of all three triple crown categories. All of them play in the National League Central. Only one division has three of the top five in wins and in saves -- the National League Central. |
Sports Central
February 27, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Central
October 20, 2008
Jonathan Lowe |
Emerging From the Depths How does the Rays' season stack up to some of the best turnarounds in baseball lore? Here's how the top five might filter out. |
Sports Central
May 17, 2010
Bill Hazell |
What's Wrong With the Red Sox? Perhaps for once, the Red Sox are the overlooked team in Boston at the moment. |
Sports Central
May 24, 2010
Kyle Jahner |
Rays Quietly Crushing Everyone No one writes all that much about the Rays, because, lets face it, there aren't that many Rays fan to read it; kind of a tree-falls-in-the-forest-but-no-one-hears-it conundrum. |
Sports Central
September 15, 2010
Vito Curcuru |
September Heat in National League West Entering Sept. 13, San Francisco and San Diego were tied for the division lead and Colorado was 1.5 games behind them. The National League West and East have baseball's best races and the tightest race is in the NL West. |
AskMen.com
Troy St. Louis |
The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they? |
Sports Central
July 23, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best. |
Salon.com
June 16, 2000
Allen Barra |
Spread the wealth The solution to baseball's revenue-sharing "problem" is for the teams to share the revenue. |
Sports Central
September 7, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Stretch Run is Full of Hidden Gems As the sun sets on the 2005 Major League Baseball season, a little retrospection is appropriate. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Salon.com
September 17, 2002
King Kaufman |
The Angels-A's race is a dud Thanks to baseball's boneheaded wild-card system, we once again have two great teams playing meaningless games in September. |
Sports Central
June 20, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Damn Yankees Are the NY Yankees going to their customary form? |
Sports Central
August 11, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Wildcards Not Too Soon to Tell Even though it is still only August and there is still much more Major League Baseball left to play this season, the beginnings of what battles lie ahead in competition for the playoffs have already taken shape. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2007
Mark Janzen |
MLB Trade Deadline Day Duds Does the trade deadline really warrant the season-changing hype it seams to garner each year? |
Sports Illustrated
July 2, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
All the Answers In the game of prognostication you use every available tool. We've gazed into our Magic 8 Ball to see how the remainder of the baseball season will play out |
Sports Central
August 23, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Sports Central
March 27, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Can You Buy Wins in Baseball? Could the Yankees' unlimited sum of cash really result in an astonishing 27 World Championships? |
Sports Central
October 9, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
No More Dead Men Walking The Red Sox, along with the rest of this year's League Championship Series field, can enjoy the extended celebration offered by an unprecedented layover. |
Sports Central
June 23, 2011
Matt Thomas |
MLB Trade Deadline: The Buyers Like no other sport, baseball's annual midseason trade deadline is typically a frenzied, interest-worthy phenomenon. |
Sports Central
September 29, 2009
Bill Hazell |
Any Drama Left in September? We can only hope the story of September 2009, the last month of regular season baseball in this decade, has yet to be written. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central
July 25, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
Under the Radar Three teams to watch as the division races heat up are the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Arizona Diamondbacks. |
