Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley discuss various baseball topics including the history of politicians making comments about baseball, playoff livestreams, the Division Series round, José Ramírez, the Tigers’ outlook for 2025, the Dodgers’ chances, Dave Roberts, injured players, the NLCS and ALCS games, clutch hitting by players such as Kiké Hernández and Giancarlo Stanton, misconceptions…
Tony Tomsic-USA TODAY NETWORK Pete Rose died on Monday at his home in Las Vegas, closing the book on an 83-year life that included an incredible, record-setting 24-year major league career that was soon followed by three and a half decades of wandering in a desert of his own making. Handed down by commissioner Bart…
Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann play a game of “College Baseball Player or Vuelta a España Stage Winner?”, discuss Kumar Rocker’s potential and path to the majors, and meet major leaguers Tyler Jay and Richard Fitts, before talking to Marlins reliever Big Mike Baumann about becoming the second major leaguer ever to play for…
Clubs have begun their pre-draft meetings, with some teams already about a week into theirs, while the last team to start them (Milwaukee, as far as I know) begins today. The number of people in draft meetings varies significantly from team to team. Some have more than 20 people in the room, others five or…
Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports The best pitching prospect in baseball, 21-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates righty Paul Skenes, is slated to be called up tomorrow to make his major league debut against the Cubs. The 6-foot-6 leviathan has a 0.99 ERA in seven Triple-A starts this year and has struck out 42.9% of the hitters he’s faced…
On Saturday afternoon, Charlie Condon hit a home run off Texas A&M starter Tanner Jones. Condon, who’d already reached on a fielder’s choice and scored earlier in the inning, put Georgia up 9-0 on the Aggies in the top of the first inning. Even on the road against the no. 1 team in the country,…
Reggie Hildred-USA TODAY Sports The Washington Nationals are 10-11 coming out of last weekend’s 2019 World Series rematch with Houston, which is a mild surprise. I thought they’d finish way off the back of the pack in the NL East, and based on how the Marlins have faceplanted out of the gate, it seems I…
(Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images) The Pittsburgh Steelers have a new quarterback, and he isn’t just another signal-caller, he’s a likely future Hall of Famer. Russell Wilson, after being released by the Denver Broncos following a failed two-year stint there, signed with Pittsburgh, giving them their first truly competent player at that position…
