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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
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
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
August 27, 2009
Matt Thomas |
Also-Rans Key During MLB Stretch Run Because baseball must go on, even in those cities where the race has been over since mid-May, what follows is a breakdown of the five most relevant irrelevant teams in Major League Baseball for the balance of the 2009 season. |
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. |
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
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 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
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
October 5, 2007
Alvin Chang |
Farewell Baseball, From Yours Truly Every time the baseball playoffs start, fans are subjected to the same David vs. Goliath story line. |
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
October 24, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
Redbird Luck Runs Out The St. Louis Cardinals' two-year run of punching above their playoff weight ended on Tuesday night in anticlimactic, but pleasing fashion with a 9-0 loss to the Giants. |
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
September 20, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
Charm City Season A group of baseball teams with various levels of expectation and familiarity by the casual fan have some to the fore, such as the A's, Nationals, Reds, and Orioles. |
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 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. |
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
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
June 4, 2012
Adam Russell |
Top Five Surprises of the MLB Season With two months of the current MLB season in the books, here are five things that, while maybe they're not that uncommon, are surprising to me. |
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
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
May 18, 2001
King Kaufman |
Who goes to the ballgame? A look at this year's early attendance figures shows that a strong start in baseball doesn't necessarily get the turnstiles spinning. Except when it does... |
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. |
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
November 13, 2009
Matt Thomas |
The MLB Anti-Team of the Decade The team in question must be bad -- not just run-of-the-mill wins/losses bad, but terrible on a more philosophical level. |
Salon.com
October 15, 2002
King Kaufman |
Who needs champions? The evil possibility of an all-wild card World Series has come to pass, and you know what? It looks pretty good from here. |
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 Illustrated
June 5, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Seattle's offensive Boone Second baseman's bat has exceeded M's expectations... |
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. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
AskMen.com
October 15, 2003
John Clarkson |
The Wild Face Of Baseball Baseball may be the national pastime, but there has been legitimate cause for years to wonder if Major League Baseball (MLB) is the forum in which America chooses to express her love for the sport. |
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. |
Sports Central
June 23, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Roger(s) Hold 'Em in Texas Two not fully unexpected performances, but remarkable for their ages and compiled years in the majors, are those of pitchers Kenny Rogers, playing for the Texas Rangers, and Roger Clemens, ace of the Houston Astros pitching staff. |
Sports Central
May 1, 2013
Andrew Jones |
April's Early Warning Signs All in all, the 2013 season looks to be an interesting one. Every division seems to have three or four potential contenders. But most likely May will weed out the weaklings and early overachievers. |
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
October 4, 2010
Paul Foeller |
2010 MLB Playoff Predictions Baseball predictions, with a team by team analysis |
Sports Central
August 9, 2010
Jonathan Lowe |
The Leaning Tower of Baseball There is such a divide between first and third in all the divisions. So what happened to all the other contenders? |
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
July 8, 2009
Kyle Jahner |
Deep Blue: MLB at Midseason More than halfway into the baseball season, we've finally gotten to that phase where flashes in the pan have had time to fade, the true horses in baseball have had time to right themselves after stumbling out of the gate. |
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? |
Sports Central
June 22, 2007
Matt Thomas |
Five Truths About the '07 MLB Season Things aren't what they seem in baseball -- until at least June 1. |
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 Central
October 2, 2013
Bob Ekstrom |
What a Difference a Day Makes If all this hyperbole about an extra day on the schedule tells us anything, it's that baseball is by far the most hyper-analyzed of any major sport. |
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
September 18, 2003
Marco Santana |
End of Season Baseball Musings A few random musings as the baseball season nears its end. |
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
August 1, 2012
Andrew Jones |
MLB Trade Deadline: Winners and Losers In today's game of big market teams, small market buyers have little chance of signing rentals in the offseason. It's probably no surprise; however, that the buyers are more often than not big market teams. But let's take a look at a few of the recent deals. |
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"! |
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? |
