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Sports Central
October 12, 2012
Brad Oremland |
A Case For Mike Trout to Win AL MVP I'm here to make an argument for Trout that doesn't require any advanced statistics or weird acronyms like VORP and wOBA.   |
Sports Central
April 2, 2013
Brad Oremland |
Mike Trout/Miguel Cabrera Redux I wrote last year about Mike Trout and Miguel Cabrera and the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Most frustratingly to advocates on both sides, almost nobody changed their minds. |
Sports Central
November 18, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Now That the AL MVP's Been Decided... Let's get one argument swept aside right here and now. Either Miguel Cabrera or Mike Trout would have been a worthy American League Most Valuable Player winner. In fact, there should be no argument about that. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Trout vs. Cabrera: A Tale of Two Extensions Hours after the Tigers signed Miguel Cabrera to an eight-year, $248 million contract extension, the Angels handed Mike Trout a six-year, $144.5 million contract extension. |
Sports Central
July 30, 2012
Greg Suttich |
Mike Trout, a Legend in the Making Since Mike Trout burst onto the scene one month into the 2012 Major League Baseball season, he has given every baseball fan the chance to see greatness day in and day out. |
Sports Central
April 26, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Sabermetricians: Help! Baseball, over the last 10 or 20 years, has seen a revolution of advanced statistics. |
Sports Central
April 10, 2013
Brad Oremland |
RBI, GIDP, and Clutch Hitting For decades, Runs Batted In has been among the most celebrated statistics in baseball. In particular, players with a lot of RBI are generally viewed as good clutch hitters -- hitting home runs or delivering with runners in scoring position. |
Sports Central
October 3, 2012
Andrew Jones |
2012 MLB Awards All in all, it was a very good year for baseball and the playoffs haven't even started yet. |
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July 7, 2014
Andrew Jones |
MLB Midseason Awards While there are still plenty of games to play, it is fitting to look at who is on track for a few of the various awards that will come out at season's end. |
Sports Central
July 3, 2006
Adam Russell |
A Major League All-Star "B" Squad What if ESPN2 decided to stage another all-star game with players who won't be playing next Tuesday? |
Sports Central
June 19, 2007
Kyle Jahner |
Baseball's Voting Propaganda The all-star team should be about who is having the best season this year, who the fans want to see, and who has accomplished more in their career, in that order. |
Sports Central
September 20, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
Goes the Lion, Comes the Lamb Back in December, David Eckstein signed a deal with the St. Louis Cardinals that closed the final loop in Major League Baseball's first three-way shortstop swap orchestrated entirely by the players. So how did this deal play out? |
Sports Central
May 27, 2008
Jon Gonzales |
No Bang For Their Buck$ There some MLB players who are generating ridiculous amounts of money and putting up atrocious stats not worthy of major league status. |
Sports Central
June 11, 2012
Joshua Duffy |
Pujols Contract Could Cost Angels Trout The Angels, while enjoying the fruits of a Trout/Trumbo/Pujols dominated lineup now, have created a looming payroll quandary that could threaten the long-term competitiveness of the club. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: Tigers Look Broken If the Detroit Tigers are still wondering where they have to go to buy a break, never mind a key hit with men on base or a key pitch to keep the San Francisco Giants from sneaking another couple of runs home, it's understandable to a small extent. |
Sports Central
October 29, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Too Late Tigers "We could not find our game in the World Series," Miguel Cabrera mourned, while the San Francisco Giants partied heartily in Comerica Park's visiting clubhouse. |
Sports Central
March 12, 2014
Adam Russell |
New Rule and Replay Won't Reduce Controversy MLB is potentially opening a Pandora's Box with the combination of the new home plate rule and replay, and the controversies most likely won't be reduced as intended. |
Sports Central
April 24, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Prince Albert Smokes 500 Home Runs This week's set between the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Nationals was supposed to be about Mike Trout vs. Bryce Harper. |
Sports Central
September 8, 2007
Jeff Kallman |
Now Ear This Apparently, in Baltimore, when you commit a balk that invites an opposing run on the house, at a time when you're already down 2-0 against a bristling opposing pitcher, you shake it off by sticking the next pitch in the hitter's ear. |
Sports Central
July 3, 2013
Adam Russell |
Five Predictions For MLB's Second Half Without delay, here are my five predictions for the second half of the 2013 Major League Baseball season. |
Sports Central
March 5, 2007
Mike Round |
Under the '07 MLB Fantasy Radar Here are 10 speculative picks for this year's draft. |
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. |
Sports Central
July 9, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
No Royals v. NL After All, But... The genuinely bad news: the all-star voting is still broken and still in need of fixing. (Er, repairing). |
Sports Central
December 24, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central
October 26, 2004
Daniel Collins |
Idiot Parade in Beantown From Bill Mueller's holy glove, to Johnny Damon's Holy appearance. Tim Wakefield's ugly flutterball to Miguel Cabrera's uglier than sin batting helmet. They are idiots, all of them -- except when it comes to winning baseball games. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Tigers Advance on Shades of Gray Sonny Gray is learning the lessons rookies usually learn if they intend to build careers as good as Gray's performance in American League division series Game 2 was. |
