Passan's 2023 awards » The key is that hitting home runs in the regular season isn't necessarily predictive to hitting home runs in October. Take the Diamondbacks. Among the 12 playoff teams, only the Brewers hit fewer home runs. Arizona hit 166 home runs in the regular ...
In this time when there is bellyaching about the game's playoff format, in which the best teams sit for a week while the laggards fight for their season in the wild-card round, there is the outlier. The Astros illustrated that a bye does not necessarily equal bye-...
In the new MLB playoff bracket, 12 teams make the playoffs. There are six teams in the American League and six teams in the National League, with the two division-winning teams with the best records receiving a first-round bye and automatically advancing to the Divisional Round. The third ...
The 2023 MLB season has unfolded an unexpected narrative. While the big spenders of the league, like theNew York Yankees,New York Mets and San Diego Padres, with their high-priced rosters an...
As is often the case when postseason play rolls around, pitching was king Tuesday. None of the four teams that won gave up more than three runs. Minnesota and Philadelphia allowed just one, whileJordan Montgomery and two relievers combined on Texas' shutout at Tampa Bay. ...
That means nine of these teams aren’t going to make it. And a lot of these teamsreally need to make the playoffs.Thus, with less than two months left, we take a look at the Playoff Urgency Rankings, weighing just how much these 17 teams need to make the postseason this year. How...
2023 MLB power rankings: Ranking playoff teams 12. Miami Marlins We’ve been skeptical of the Miami Marlins this year. On the one hand, this team entered the weekend ranked 26th in runs scored and 19th in OBP and it didn’t even crack the top 15 for key pitching stats. Yet here the...
Oct 11, 2023 #39 bevosu said: I'm a big baseball fan, but I gotta say these playoff games have seriously lacked suspense. Very few nailbiters. I'm enjoying seeing other teams in the mix and doing well. Also reminded how little I follow during the regular season as I find myse...
We'll note the Orioles and Phillies and move on, since they were roundly expected to be playoff teams in the first place, but as for the other five? Where did we miss – and/or what did they do so successfully that maybe wasn’t quite so clear back in March? Let’s find out. ...
Back in 2022, theMLBintroduced a new playoff format focused on two key areas: more teams and an expandedWild Cardround. Here's everything you need to know about the MLB postseason format: How many teams reach the MLB playoffs? How many Wild Card teams are there?