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Sports Central
October 4, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Baseball at its Best Down to the Wire The stage is set for a MLB playoffs season that lends itself to great theater, with no sure winner and possibly surprising upsets. You can't ask for any more from this game of baseball.   |
Sports Central
July 14, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Diamonds in the Rough Who are the no-names shaping first-half pennant races? |
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. |
Sports Central
September 2, 2015
Joe Messineo |
Takeaways From the Cubs/Dodgers Series The Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers squared off in a three-game series. So what did we learn from watching these contenders go at it? |
Sports Central
June 30, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Ah, the Trade Winds Blow... The author predicts what kind of trade winds are blowing across the rosters of major league baseball. |
Sports Central
March 5, 2009
Mike Round |
Forget Steroids and Recession: Play Ball! Here's a look around MLB's American and National Leagues and predictions for the upcoming season. |
Sports Central
August 4, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Price, Lester, and Non-Waiver Trade Tally David Price is now a Detroit Tiger, Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes are Oakland Athletics, and all three men find themselves in the thick of races not for wild cards but for divisions. |
Sports Central
December 17, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Cubs Show Lester More Than the Money In the end, there was more to Jon Lester's signing choice than the dollars in his own pocket. A man doesn't take the second-best offer on the table because he's only in it for the money. |
Sports Central
September 30, 2008
Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Divisional Series Breakdown A closer look at the four MLB playoff match-ups. |
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
August 9, 2004
Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
Sports Central
August 20, 2009
Jonathan Lowe |
Dark Horse and a Playoff Seat In MLB, who are this year's dark horses as we speed toward September? |
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
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. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2003
Marco Santana |
End of Season Baseball Musings A few random musings as the baseball season nears its end. |
Sports Illustrated
August 15, 2002 |
Prior commitment Cubs vow not to overwork their phenom pitcher |
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. |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Sports Central
January 3, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination. |
Sports Central
March 2, 2004
Shane McKiness |
Cubs in Position to Win Pennant The Cubs were underdogs last year, and this year, they are again being ignored by the media. I have found this to be deeply disturbing. It is obvious why they are being ignored -- it is because of the offseason acquisitions that the New York Yankees have made. |
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
January 2, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central
January 24, 2007
Mike Round |
MLB Pitchers Exploit Tight Market A look at the value of MLB pitchers. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central
March 6, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: National League Look for an exciting A's/Cards World Series. St. Louis will be the best team in baseball for the third straight year, and LaRussa's club will finally have a ring to show for it. |
Sports Central
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central
March 21, 2008
Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Preview: NL's Best Rotations A look at the pitching staff of six NL MLB teams. |
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 8, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Breaking Down the MLB Trade Deadline As the summer heats up in Major League Baseball, serious trade talks annually begin to percolate. |
Sports Central
September 21, 2004
William Geoghegan |
Do Talented Cubs Have a Chance? On paper, the Chicago Cubs should be one of the top four teams in the National League. But as we all know, baseball games aren't played on paper. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Season-Ending Races Live Up to Hype Some say that the same teams in 2005 that succeeded to reach the postseason in Major League Baseball in 2004 are old-hat. But this year, unlike past seasons, the road to success was nothing but routine for several of these perennial winners. |
Sports Central
August 10, 2004
Martin Hawrysko |
Why Cards Are More Deserving Than Cubs "Congratulations to the 2004 National League Central champions, the St. Louis Cardinals." This with almost two months remaining in the season ... and from a Cubs fan, no less? |
Sports Central
June 10, 2005
William Geoghegan |
These Cubs Are Dusty's Kind of Team The 2005 Cubs, the stripped-down, less powerful, injury-riddled, not-that-great-on-paper Cubs, are playing better than the 2004 edition really ever did. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2003
Jeff Zaginailoff |
Looking Ahead, and Back, At the World Series Matchups A look at the possible World Series matchups and the history between the teams. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2012
Louie Centanni |
How to Fix the Cubs With the worst record in the National League (and a tie for the MLB worst) as of this writing, it's safe to say the Chicago Cubs have some holes to fill. |
Sports Central
November 27, 2005
Matt Thomas |
40 MLB Offseason Moves That Make Sense Some speculation on which Major League Baseball players will change uniforms and which won't -- and which should just hang it up. |
Sports Central
August 6, 2012
Louie Centanni |
MLB Predictions: August Until the End Obviously, predictions are meant to be proven wrong -- and I tried to make some bold ones for the sake of speculation, fun, and a legitimate belief in the strangeness of September baseball. |
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
May 2, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Upstarts and Stalwarts What makes the baseball season so special is that no individual player's achievement or any team's success is greater than the entirety of the game. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central
August 2, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Re-Draft, Playball in Five Years (Pt. 2) The Universe Draft is a list of the top 30 young players currently at the big league level. Here is a discussion of picks six to ten. |
Sports Central
August 9, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
All The Way Back? With Mark Prior healthy and with a rejuvenated Greg Maddux now in the 300-win club, the Cardinals, and the rest of baseball, must be wary of the Cubs. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2001
King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
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
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 7, 2007
Piet Van Leer |
MLB NL Playoff Odds A look at the playoff chances of NL teams like the Mets and Cubs. |
Sports Central
October 22, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central
January 2, 2008
Rich Lyons |
Grading the MLB Offseason Moves Here is a list of the most notable MLB trades, along with a grade for the team(s) involved. |
