In 2020, nine teams are over an 80 percent success rate on stolen base attempts. Only five teams were over 80 percent in 2019 and if you look at the numbers, they get more inefficient the further you go back. To put his into perspective, in 2017, no one stole bases and there were no…
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred took over in 2015 and has publicly stated that he wants to make the game faster paced and more attractive to the young fan. The path to this objective seemed clear and many felt Manfred was pulling all the right strings to implement necessary change. Due to this, he…
**This article will continue to be updated based on negotiations** Like so many of you, I am anxious for Major League Baseball to be back. My father, Mike Ramsey, played for the St. Louis Cardinals, LA Dodgers, and Montreal Expos in the 80s, and my grandfather held Expos season tickets for over 30 years. Just…
On January 23rd, the New York Mets tabbed a bit of an unknown figure in Luis Rojas to be their next manager. The hire was a surprise to many. Even more surprising, was the fact that the New York Mets were even in this position. The team parted ways with newly hired Carlos Beltran, central…
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The Scandal: What’s on tap for 2020? The 2020 MLB season will be unlike anything baseball fans have ever seen before. This much is obvious as every new season is different than the previous. 2020 in particular, will be unprecedented. Baseball is in a whirlwind of controversy as a result of the sign-stealing scandal in…
The baseball statistic on-base + slugging percentage, or OPS, as it is more commonly called, has come to the forefront in evaluating a hitter’s ability to positively impact an offense. It is not a complex statistic by any means. The official definition is: OPS adds on-base percentage and slugging percentage to get one number that…
The 2019 Major League Baseball postseason will highlight two teams entrenched at the bottom of the yearly payroll rankings. Resources for the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays tend to be scarce in comparison to the juggernauts that perch at the top of the payroll rankings. Baseball does not have a set salary cap, meaning…
Something is different with the baseballs being hit in 2019. Commissioner Rob Manfred has vehemently denied this. Claiming that no changes were made in order to benefit the offensive player. The players say differently. Many pitchers have come out and stated the ball clearly benefits offense. They cite pitches normally “safe” as balls that are…
On June 25th, Stu Sternberg the principal owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, announced the revolutionary idea of a shared team concept with the city of Montreal. The idea is to split home games early in the season in Tampa Bay then later in the season with Montreal. The Rays owner thinks that the volume…
Hitting a baseball is not easy. In fact, it is one of the hardest tasks to do in all of sports. In this art, you can fail 70 percent of the time and still be considered a quality hitter. Historically speaking, quite a few of these hitters were built upon pulling the baseball and made…
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