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With the hiring of their new pitching coach, the Rangers coaching staff is now mostly set. Yesterday, Texas announced Julio Rangel will replace Doug Brocail as the team’s pitching coach. Rangel never pitched or coached in the major leagues. As a player, he spent seven seasons mostly in the Yankees […]

It was deGrom and Snell for Cy Youngs. A lot of debate about both, but in my opinion both were no brainers. With deGrom it was he only had ten victories. With Snell it was he had the fewest innings pitched of any starter to win the award. Neither had […]

The Red Sox led all of baseball in wins, runs scored, hits, doubles, runs batted in, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage and OPS. It’s a powerhouse offense. The Dodgers are the first World Series team to have had more strikeouts than hits. But they sported the second-best team ERA […]

  In the Year of Bullpenning, the Milwaukee Brewers found out the hard way that you live with the bullpen and you die with the bullpen. What works in a series against the Padres in July doesn’t work in a playoff series against Los Angeles in October. Even with bullpen […]

The first round is over. It’s time to settle in for some real baseball. The Dodgers visit the Brewers today. Clayton Kershaw is on the mound. Playoff Clayton Kershaw hasn’t been Regular Season Clayton Kershaw, but I’d take him in a heartbeat. He is one of the top pitchers in […]

  It wasn’t that it was the Yankees getting pounded that made last night’s game so enjoyable. As far as games go, the competitiveness was over after the Red Sox scored seven runs in the fourth and made it 10-0. This isn’t about Yankee-bashing. No matter what you think of […]

  Ten hours of baseball playoffs. Four games. Two close ones, two no-doubters. In the National League, both Milwaukee and Los Angeles took commanding 2-0 leads in much the same way. Their opponents cannot hit. The Braves have yet to score a run. The Rockies have scored two. In the […]

  Only five more beatdowns remaining. This is like being forced to binge watch the final season of Happy Days. Way way way after they had jumped the shark. After all the stars had deserted and it was just the C-list celebrities. (The term “jump the shark” came from Happy […]