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The 2020 Shortened Season MLB.tv Watchability Rankings: Part 3

Every year, I rank the MLB teams by MLB.tv watchability. It’s not a ranking of the best teams, it’s a ranking of the most interesting ones: some great teams are boring and some terrible teams are...

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National League’s Final Week Fun

With one week left in the regular season, the only thing we know for sure heading into the National League’s final week is that the Dodgers and Padres are in the playoffs. The Cubs and Braves are in...

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Who is the Worst Team in the NL Central

As weird as this past year has been, we are just around the corner from normalcy. The gears of Spring training are beginning to turn and a 162 game season will soon offer a chorus for our summer days....

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Corbin Burnes, Mitch Keller, and the Road Not Taken

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both”– Robert Frost in The Road Not Taken In 2019, Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Mitch Keller pitched 48 innings with a 7.13 ERA,...

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The Top 15 National League Spring Training Storylines

The Top 15 National League Spring Training Storylines We’re now a week into spring training, and there’s still plenty of time for players fighting to make their team to make a great impression. Some...

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Fix Your Broken Team in One Offseason: NL Central

Your favorite baseball team is broken. There is lots of work to do this winter, whether they need a shortstop, more starting pitching, or a front office facelift. If they took the field today, they...

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Offseason Moves That Would Make Pirates Fans Jolly Rogers

Other than the spectacular beauty of Pittsburgh’s PNC Park, Pirates fans haven’t had very many reasons to watch a game since Andrew McCutchen’s prime years. With the state of the franchise today, it’s...

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How will the Chicago Cubs and the other NL Central Teams Use the DH in 2023?

One of the major changes in Major League Baseball last year was the Designated Hitter coming to the National League on a permanent basis. It had previously been used in all MLB ballparks during the...

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Rich Hill Still Tossing the Pill and That’s What I Appreciates About Him

The oldest player in Major League Baseball this year had quite a game on Monday night. That man is Rich Hill and he’s a left-handed pitcher who has been around the block a few times in his career,...

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Still Pulling for the Pittsburgh Pirates

Coming off back-to-back 100-loss seasons, the Pittsburgh Pirates were the most surprising division leader in baseball as the calendar approaches mid-June. Through June 12, the Pirates were 34-30, sat...

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