Top 25 MLB Players Under 25 For 2020
Cody Bellinger headlines the list of Top 25 Players Under 25 entering the 2020 season.
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Top 25 MLB Players Under 25 For 2019
Alex Bregman headlines the list of Top 25 Players Under 25 entering the 2019 season.
Read more "Top 25 MLB Players Under 25 For 2019"Breaking Down Clayton Kershaw’s Contract Option
Kershaw has had back issues in his career (though he says they are no longer a problem), and he has missed significant time in each of the past three seasons due to various other injuries. From 2010-2015, Kershaw averaged just over 222 innings pitched per season. In the three seasons since, he has averaged fewer than 162 innings, meaning he has not thrown enough innings, on average, to qualify for the ERA title. Of the past three years, he has qualified for the ERA crown in just 2017. He led the majors in ERA that year, of course, but that’s beside the point. Kershaw is looking like a mortal.
Read more "Breaking Down Clayton Kershaw’s Contract Option"A Look at the National League Playoff Picture
Fangraphs is currently giving the Dodgers a 72.3% chance to make the playoffs and a 58.5% chance of winning the NL West. FiveThirtyEight doesn’t like the Dodgers nearly as much, giving them just a 56% chance to make the playoffs a 45% chance to win the division.
The discrepancy between the two models is why we play the games; these are contests between two groups of nine humans, and anything can happen in baseball.
Read more "A Look at the National League Playoff Picture"The Dodgers Should Trade for Manny Machado
There are not many players in baseball who will be able to replace Seager’s production. Manny Machado is one of the few.
Read more "The Dodgers Should Trade for Manny Machado"Trying to Rationalize the Adrian Gonzalez Signing
Gonzalez seems like someone who would be a clubhouse cancer, not a positive presence. This past postseason, when the Dodgers informed Gonzalez that he would not be a part of the postseason roster, he left the team to go help his wife move her things and get settled in Italy as opposed to staying with the team.
Read more "Trying to Rationalize the Adrian Gonzalez Signing"2017 Recap: NL West
After four straight seasons of being eliminated in the playoffs prior to the World Series, it seems fair to say that anything short of a World Series appearance would be considered a failure by this Dodger fanbase, and perhaps even the front office, after spending so much. Fortunately for those fans, when the season got underway, the Dodgers did not disappoint.
Read more "2017 Recap: NL West"Evaluating the Trade: Rays get Jose De Leon from Dodgers for Forsythe
Running down the Dodgers and Rays’ swap of De Leon and Forsythe.
Read more "Evaluating the Trade: Rays get Jose De Leon from Dodgers for Forsythe"Clayton Kershaw: The Greatest* Pitcher of All-Time
Clayton Kershaw could be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018 and I doubt there would be much contention. He won’t be, because he’s only 28 years old (turns 29 in March 2017), and is still pitching in the majors at an extraordinarily high level, so he won’t be eligible for induction. But if Kershaw decides tomorrow to retire and devote the rest of his life to working with his charity, he would still probably make it into the Hall of Fame. For Kershaw, though, the Hall of Fame is just a starting point. I think Kershaw can retire as the greatest (live-ball) pitcher of all-time.
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The top 10 under-covered stories in 2016, now all in one place!
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Musings of a Baseball Addict 