Dylan Cease

How much tangible difference a manager makes on a baseball team over 162 games has never been quite nailed down. It’s generally thought the best ones might only add a couple wins, and a truly bad one might only take away a couple wins. Most…

LVP — Dallas Keuchel, Chicago White Sox/Texas Rangers and Joey Gallo, New York YankeesImage: Getty ImagesIf this was the NL LVP, Patrick Corbin would undoubtedly win in a landslide. He was so bad, I’d almost consider him here, despite not…

Photo: Getty ImagesThe concepts of “parity” and “fairness” in sports were exposed as fig leaves long ago. The idea that fans would care more, i.e. buy more tickets and watch more games on TV, if more teams had a chance at playoff berths and…

Yoán MoncadaPhoto: Getty ImagesIt’s not that you have to go back all that far for a season by an MLB team that was as disappointing, confounding, and overall just as big of a waste of time as the 2022 Chicago White Sox. It was just last…

BallsPhoto: Getty ImagesWe knew the new baseball playoff system, with the addition of a third wildcard team, would create quirks. In a vacuum, it works because all division winners are considered equal. But in reality, where people play the…

Dylan Cease and his awesome mustachePhoto: AP00000111000111. In binary, that means “LJ” according to the free translator I just Googled, so take that translation with a grain of salt. In baseball, that string of numbers means “OMG”, because…

Shohei Ohtani hit his 40th homer and pitched eight strang innings on Wednesday night.Image: Getty ImagesJack Morris wasn’t in the booth for it, because his racist ass was suspended indefinitely from Bally Sports Detroit, but Shohei Ohtani…