Three down, how many more to go? Over the past seven weeks, the Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds have all fired their managers. If history is any indication, the turnover is only beginning. A fourth job will open when Skip Schumaker exercises his “get out of jail free” card with the Miami […]
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I actually have the NL Manager of the Year ballot this year, an award on which I think I’ve only voted once previously in my 15ish years in the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), and certainly my least favorite one to vote on, because I don’t think there’s a good way to evaluate managers
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By Tim Britton, Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. Well then, we’ve made it — through 25 weeks of power rankings, through ups and downs and surprises and
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The last week of the MLB regular season is upon us. While some postseason tickets have been punched, there are several spots left to claim and first-round byes to secure for the top two teams in each league. Let’s check in on the 15 teams still in the playoff picture to see what our writers
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By Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough and Stephen J. Nesbitt Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. There are two weeks left in the Major League Baseball regular season. Each team has four series remaining
Every contending team has star players, but they also have those special players who often fly under the radar yet are indispensable to a team’s success during a playoff run. These players have intangibles that aren’t always seen by the public, and with the focus mostly on stars, they often get overlooked, particularly outside their
By Tim Britton, Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. All right, enough fooling around. There are less than three weeks left in the regular season, and these games
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Who doesn’t love a good what-if question, so let’s ask this one: What if this baseball season had started in the middle of July instead of the last week of March? Have you thought much about how differently we’d be viewing nearly every contender in the sport? Of course you haven’t. But that’s what we’re
