ESPN interviewed a group of pitchers about the rash of injuries in the game. Every time I read something like this I like my idea of limiting pitch speed to 92 MPH and making batters swing heavy ...
The Diamondbacks dropped Corbin Carroll to the seventh slot today, and he went 0 for 3 with a walk in a 5-1 Cardinals win. That leaves Carroll with a .208/.321/.260 slash line. In 2023 Carroll pr...
Cody Bellinger of the Cubs cracked two ribs Tuesday when he crashed into the centerfield. It took an MRI to diagnose the injury as it did not show up on an x-ray. There’s no timetable for his r...
Spencer Turnbull takes on Nick Lodolo as the Phillies visit the Reds. Turnbull posted good numbers in 2021, but Tommy John surgery knocked him out until 2023. He seems to have regained his low wa...
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.285 — Jose Altuve batting against Jameson Taillon. 0.285 — Amed Rosario batting against Jack Flaherty. 0.280 — Steven Kwan batting against Cooper C...
Juan Soto of the Yankees remains atop the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings after he singled in four trips in a 4-3 win over the Athletics. His lead is down to six points as Shohei Ohtani of the D...
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Max Fried pitched a masterful game against the Marlins, earning a shutout. Fried walked none and stuck out six, allowing just three hits. All the hits were singles. Fried got off to a slow start ...
Diamondbacks collect ten hits in the first five innings against the Cardinals to take a 10-1 lead in the game. Each of the Diamondbacks nine batters collected a hit. The team added three walks an...
Ben Lively of the Guardians gave the team a great start against the Red Sox. He walked none and struck out seven in 6 1/3 innings, although he left trailing 1-0. The Guardians scored four runs af...
Tanner Houck and the Red Sox face the Guardians and Ben Lively in Cleveland. Houck stands near the top of the Tom Tango Cy Young Tracker Points list. He walked just two batters in 26 2/3 innings,...
It feels like the number of shutouts are high this season, but early in the year offense tends to be low. The majors saw 46 shutouts in 682 games, 6.74%. That’s lower than each of the previous ...
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.343 — Shohei Ohtani batting against Patrick Corbin. 0.335 — Mookie Betts batting against Patrick Corbin. 0.329 — Freddie Freeman batting against Pa...
Juan Soto of the Yankees sees his lead in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings shrink to ten points after he posted an 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-0 Athletics win. The Dodgers did not play...
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The Tigers visit the Rays with Tarik Skubal facing Zack Littell. Skubal sports a deadly combination of a high strikeout rate with a low BABIP of .207. Littell’s BABIP comes in at .361, but most...
Every Monday Baseball Musings compares offense to the same point in the previous season. Through three full weeks, the 2024 season produced 8.89 runs per game compared to 9.14 runs per game in 20...
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.281 — Kerry Carpenter batting against Zack Littell. 0.278 — Nolan Arenado batting against Brandon Pfaadt. 0.277 — Luis Campusano batting against Au...
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers moves into second place in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings ahead of his teammate Mookie Betts. Ohtani collects two hits and a walk, including a home run in the 1...
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I just heard on the Sunday Night broadcast that Howie Schwab died on Saturday. I worked with Howie for many years at ESPN. While I looked everything up on a computer, Howie would just try to know...
Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers hit the 176th home run of his MLB career. That’s the new record for a player born in Japan, passing Hideki Matsui. I’ll note that Matsui came to the majors in his...
With two out in the bottom of the ninth in a game between the Mariners and the Rockies in Denver, catcher Jacob Stallings launched a ball to the wall in leftfield. At first, it looked like Seattl...
Jordan Westburg of the Orioles continues to impress as he gathered the hard half of the cycle in a 5-0 win over the Royals. His fifth home run and first triple of the season brings his slugging p...
Reds staring pitcher Frankie Montas left the game after three batters due to a line drive striking him. Six Reds relievers then shutdown the Angels for 8 2/3 innings to give Cincinnati a 3-0 win....
The Nationals fail to blow a 6-0 lead and beat the Astros by that score on Sunday afternoon. Mitchell Parker made his second career start and shutout the Houston dynasty for seven innings. He all...
Logan O’Hoppe of the Angels explores and keeps a journal about the ballparks he visits. Last week, on a off day in Boston, he bought a bleacher seat to Fenway!
The Rays finish their series at the Yankees with Aaron Civale facing Luis Gil. He’s done a good job of keeping opponents off base with four walks and 17 hits allowed in 23 innings. That helped ...
The Log5 Method yields these top picks: 0.327 — Steven Kwan batting against Ross Stripling. 0.323 — Luis Arraez batting against Kyle Hendricks. 0.308 — Josh Naylor batting against Ross Stri...
Josh Naylor of the Guardians moves back into the top five of the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. He went two for four with a home run, his sixth, in a 6-3 win over the Athletics. Naylor ranks f...