“I was sitting next to him one game, and he started calling out each pitch before it came through, just from watching the pitcher,” Moeglin recalls. “I said, ‘How are you doing that?’ He said, ‘That’s the difference between where I played and where you’re playing.’” The...
MLB-Worst Umpire Angel Hernandez in Midseason Form After Tossing St. Louis Cardinals' Veteran in Spring Training / Veteran umpire Angel Hernandez ejected veteran pitcher Lance Lynn from a spring training game on Friday night... twice. Lynn, ...
San Francisco Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky captured the hearts of the nation when he returned to the mound on August 10, 1989 after surviving cancer. Just days later, he snapped his arm while pitching. His career ended and the arm was eventually amputated. Also ranks #7...
Before there was Sarah Palin reading notes from her hand, there was Michael Bolton. At a Red Sox vs. Yankees baseball game in 2003, the crooner invited the wrath of fans when he dared to peek at the lyrics scrawled on his palm. Between that and the bizarre echo following his every line...
No, I'm not talking about watching a horror movie on Halloween night, when the veil between the two worlds is at its thinnest. Instead, I'm talking about the most horrifying baseball games ever played -- the ones where some player or team is so overmatched that it becomes a complete ...
Specifically, a pitcher with MLB’s 22nd-best ERA and 22nd-best strikeout-minus-walk differential (among pitchers with at least 100 innings pitched). If Ohtani was either of those things alone, he would be one of baseball’s top players. The fact that he is both, however, makes him argu...
Fellow owners found Freedman to be more of a headache than an inspiration; he nearly brought an early end to the hallowed reserve clause when star pitcher Amos Rusie, furious over being denied a raise, challenged him in court; the other Lords scrambled to pony up the cash and avoid a tria...
Look, Manoah is a very confident, brash character, and quite honestly, the game of baseball needs more players who are willing to embrace their personality like he has. He was the star of the All-Star Game because of it, a performance that you can watch above. ...
It’s been a Major League Baseball season full of truly terrible balls and strike calls by umpires. Tuesday, we might have seen the worst one yet. Eric Haase of theDetroit Tigerswas staring downMinnesota Twinspitcher Devin Smeltzer on a 3-2 pitch in the bottom of the fifth. Smeltzer’...
You love to argue about the game and its players, delving into baseball history and lore in search of support for your points of view. You'll find plenty of food for thought -- and argument! -- in Rob Neyer's ? All-time ...