By Adam Gilfix Tonight, the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets will play their first game of the 2016 season at Kauffman Stadium. Just over five months ago, these two teams squared off at Citi Field when the Royals captured a...
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By Brendan Kent A while back, I wrote a piece on travel distance in Major League Soccer. It got me thinking about which aspects of travel affect a team’s performance. It would seem that as a trip progresses, travel might take...
By Adam Gilfix Since tonight and tomorrow night are the only two of the entire MLB season with no games or All-Star festivities, it is a perfect day to recap the first “half” of 2015. As you hopefully noticed by...
By Adam Gilfix This post is just a short and sweet follow-up to this article regarding Red Sox players Alejandro De Aza, Mookie Betts, and Brock Holt becoming just the 11th trio of teammates to each double and triple in an MLB...
By Adam Gilfix There has been a ton of buzz surrounding the Chicago White Sox lefty sensation Chris “The Condor” Sale recently, and for good reason too. Last night he tossed eight 2-hit, 0-walk shutout innings...
By Adam Gilfix This article details the phenomenon of the walk-off balk, updated most recently in July 2016 after the Padres walk-off balk. The original version of this post was about how on June 18, 2015, the Los Angeles Dodgers...
By Adam Gilfix Late last night after marveling about the incredible NBA Finals, I tweeted a seemingly random baseball question about 3 teammates each hitting a double and triple in the same game, and thought that I could probably...
by Evan Zepfel Since the advent of free agency in 1975, certain Major League Baseball teams have benefited from the ability to acquire talented players through free agency. This system, however, rewards the teams with the...
By Kurt Bullard In baseball, it is taken as a given that players who hit for power tend to strike out at a higher rate than those who make their living off simply reaching base. A common metric used in portraying this phenomenon...
By David Roher These playoffs have been one for the road. In the Division Series, the home team went a combined 4-11, including a 1-7 showing in the ALDS. Why this happened isn’t that important — you can come up with...