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May 11, 2020

Owners To Discuss MLB's Latest Plan For 2020 Season: A Season Of Roughly 80 Games Beginning In Early July, With Expanded Playoffs

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UPDATED : " MLB owners approved Monday a proposal set to be delivered to the Players Association on Tuesday that in the most optimisti...
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May 9, 2020

RIP: Richard Wayne Penniman (1932-2020)

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Little Richard, one of the founders of rock & roll, died today . Richard Wayne Penniman was 87. Richard's string of hits from 1...
May 6, 2020

Donald Trump's Baseball Career: Slate Examines The Historical Record Very Closely

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Leander Schaerlaeckens, writing in Slate: Trump's achievements at NYMA [the New York Military Academy], in both academia and sports...
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May 4, 2020

A Rumour: Spring Training June 10, Opening Day July 1, 100+ Games Played (Lots of DHs)

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Former major league infielder Trevor Plouffe tweeted about an hour ago : I just heard from multiple sources that on June 10th, Spring Trai...
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NESN Airing 2004 World Series This Week (And The Parade Of A Lifetime)

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NESN continues airing the 2004 Red Sox postseason this week. All the games begin at 8:30 PM ET. Monday, May 4: ALCS Game 7 Tuesday, M...
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April 30, 2020

Now On MSNBC: Jason Varitek Punching Alex Rodriguez In The Mouth

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Chad Jennings, The Athletic, April 30, 2020 : Jonathan Lemire has lived in his Brooklyn, N.Y. apartment nearly seven years. It's in...
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April 29, 2020

The Morning Of Mookie Betts's Debut

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What do you remember about the day of your major league debut? Mookie Betts: I remember the hotel [in New York], walking in like, "...
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April 26, 2020

NESN Will Show All 2004 Postseason Wins, Starting Tomorrow Night

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NESN will broadcast all 11 of the 2004 Red Sox's postseason victories, starting tomorrow night . All games will begin at 8:30 PM ET...
April 23, 2020

MLB Releases Its Report On 2018 Red Sox; Only One Person Is Punished: The Video Replay System Operator Is Suspended For 2020 And 2021

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MLB has released its findings from its investigation into sign-stealing by the 2018 Red Sox. Commissioner Rob Manfred's Executive Findin...
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April 22, 2020

Joe Posnanski Hates The Song 'Centerfield': "Man Do I Hate That Song"

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Joe Posnanski, April 21, 2020: There has been some buzz on Twitter for some reason* about the John Fogerty song "Centerfield." I...
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April 21, 2020

Review: Conspiracy Of Silence: Sportswriters And The Long Campaign To Desegregate Baseball, by Chris Lamb

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[Draft Post: November 1, 2014 An Unfinished Book Review] Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson's 1947 de...
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April 20, 2020

Steve Pearce, 2018 World Series MVP, Has Retired

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Steve Pearce , MVP of the 2018 World Series, has retired , after 13 seasons. It has been a good run. I have 10 years [of MLB service ti...
April 17, 2020

Some Information About Joe Buck's Discretionary Income

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I will never be a member of The Joe Buck Fan Club, but his response is pretty awesome: A porn site says it will pay Joe Buck $1 million ...
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Sean Hannity Explains Which Ballpark Foods Are Easiest To Eat If You Are Wearing A Mask

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Hannity's plan to re-open Yankee Stadium is the funniest shit I've watched in a while pic.twitter.com/PuunNPYzRa — Justin Baragon...
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Baseball Scores That Have Never Happened

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On August 20, 2018, Jeremy Frank posted a graph to Twitter that showed how often each possible score had happened in a baseball game  (since...
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April 16, 2020

"Social Murder"

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When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew ...
April 13, 2020

The 2020 Season Has Begun ... At The Athletic & B-Ref!

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The 2020 major league baseball season is underway ... in the digital pages of both The Athletic and Baseball Reference . Both sites are usi...
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Infinite Boston

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[Draft Post, July 16, 2012] William Beutler : In July of what might have been Year of Glad, one year ago this week, I traveled to Bost...
April 10, 2020

Posnanski's 100 Greatest Baseball Players: Babe Ruth #2

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When Joe Posnanski began his project of writing about (and ranking) the 100 greatest baseball players of all-time, he wanted to make somethi...
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April 8, 2020

Watch Pedro Strikeout 17 Yankees At 1:00 PM Today/Thursday (Streaming @ MLB.com)

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Pedro Martinez's 17-strikeout game against the Yankees on Friday, September 10, 1999, will be streamed live on MLB.com at 1:00 PM ET...