as two 100+ win teams will battle for the championship. The Los Angeles Dodgers are seeking their first title since 1988, while the Houston Astros will be looking for the first in franchise history. We'll take a quick look at the matchup from a positional, financial, and statistical standpo...
Benitez had his ups and downs after establishing himself as the Mets' closer in the late 1990s, but his 2004 season with the Marlins was the best statistical year of his career. His 47 saves led the NL, and he had an ERA of just 1.29, his lowest in any full season. From April 8 ...
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Good teams score more runs, a statistical fact that could help drive your betting decision. But nothing beats diving into the news and stats to find a betting edge before wagering on totals. What are MLB Vegas odds? Vegas has been the Mecca of sports betting for decades. And even with ...
The D-backs won the NL pennant last year … but they also finished 16 games behind the Dodgers in the division. When owner Ken Kendrick asked members of his front office if there were any moves that could be made that would make Arizona the projected statistical favorite in the West, they...
Negro League stats accumulated and published by MLB today differ slightly from those on Baseball-Reference.com, the widely recognized mother lode of statistical information. Baseball Reference conducted its own data collection, leaning heavily on the work of the Seamheads Negro League Database. The ...
Within MLB’s [press] release [announcing the statistical incorporation], the supportive statements of Thorn, Lester, fellow Negro Leagues expert Phil Dixon, and Elias Sports Bureau senior historian John Labombarda are thankfully much better [than that of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, which elided...
His cultural impact ultimately gave him an additional boost in the rankings, pushing him ahead of Mookie Betts who arguably has a better overall statistical case even with his career still in the works. —Joel Reuter 17. David Ortiz, DH 37 of 54 Set Number: X156411 TK1 R4 F146 Career S...
Newman is essentially the anti-Grandal: He’s currently hitting .220/.259/.303 with a weighted on-base average (wOBA) of .245, making him the worst statistical batter in MLB this season (nearly 10 points of wOBA below runner-up Elvis Andrus of the Oakland A’s). Among qualified ...
(One can just imagine what the real Lester would say if confronted with these numbers, which are based on a simulated season that is in turn based on statistical projections.) The Cubs don't have much in the way of rotation depth, but they do have a front four (Lester, Kyle...