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The pennant races in the American League in 2018 look like they may end up as an amazing, expensive hand of high-stakes poker. In the East, the Yankees and Red Sox are fighting tooth and claw for first place, swapping…

As the month of June draws to a close, the Major League Baseball landscape has taken on a stable shape. Some surprising early successes (the star-crossed New York Mets, for instance) have fallen by the wayside. Others – such as…

Major League Baseball is a game in which probabilities and variables stack up on top of one another into exponentially complex arrays. It is why predicting the outcomes of baseball games is so difficult, and why the sport lags behind…

The MLB Swarm has been on a bit of a tear in recent weeks, posting a 45-15 record picking winners over the last four swarms and a 82-38 record since Memorial Day weekend. Naturally, to put up those kind of…

The 2018 MLB Season has been a record-setter in the American League. When the Seattle Mariners went 20 games over .500 over the weekend, it marked the earliest time in the post-expansion era that four teams in one league were…

Much of the talk in Major League Baseball this season has centered around the alarming rate at which hitters are striking out. Indeed, many baseball purists have fretted that the game is reducing itself to its “three true outcomes” –…

Baseball is a game made up of odd and quirky statistics, some of which defy easy explanation. For instance, the narrow run differential for the Seattle Mariners suggests that they should be a team just barely above .500, instead of…

Like fans in any sport, baseball fans are drawn to the shiny and new each season. Rookie callups and exciting imports (hello Shohei Ohtani) capture the imagination, but most of the time it’s the established old warhorses that do most…

One thing every Major League Baseball team will deal with during a season is injuries. When key players go down hurt teams can try to engineer a trade for a replacement, but these transactions are often high-risk propositions. If a…

When Major League Baseball created a single game wildcard postseason playoff, it also created a unique new dynamic for clubs to contend with. Should teams go all out to win the division, or rest players as needed and be willing…