If you happen to be a general manager of a fantasy team and your reaction to an imaginary reporter asking you about your league’s playoffs is the opposite of how Jim Mora would respond, then this article is for you.
We know Jim Mora’s Colts’ weren’t talking about playoffs, and were “lucky to just win a [...]

Prior to the announcement of the actual selections on Sunday, I posted what I thought the All-Star teams would look like in a mock draft.  While I can’t take much issue with the American League’s selections, the National League’s selections were a disaster. No wonder they’re winless since 1996.
One thing that the NL did get [...]

Last year, I took a stab at predicting the 2010 All-Star Game representatives while mocking mock drafters such as Mel Kiper and Todd McShay. I didn’t hit on all my selections, but I did fare better than the mock draft gurus, who consider a 50% hit rate as a success. Not to mention, they get [...]

He has a common name in the world of baseball, recently becoming the third person in the last 25 years with the same name to reach the major leagues. But the name is about the only thing that is common about the newest Mike Stanton, officially known as Giancarlo Cruz-Michael Stanton. Just don’t call [...]

…throughout the past decade. Since it can take years to find out how teams fared in making their draft selections, it doesn’t make much sense to hand out draft grades for Tuesday’s draft. But it is possible to take a look back at the past decade and assess whether teams have been successful or whether [...]

In case you missed it, last night Roy Halladay threw a masterful, dominant, stellar, impressive… no-hitter. He broke the Marlins down, mixing pitches, changing speeds, jamming hitters, retiring 27 in a row. No Marlin even really came close to hitting a ball well enough to get a hit. Halladay continued to solidify his hold on [...]

The ugly Hanley Ramirez saga last week certainly made headlines, but it was ultimately swept under the rug, chalked up to one of those things that tend to happen over the course of a 162-game season.  But it may have been evidence of more of a problem than the Marlins had let on. They did [...]

A couple days ago, fellow BDD writer Zach Sanders posted an article referencing an ESPN the Magazine survey on what MLB players thought were the most overrated statistic in baseball.  I am pleased that the fourth highest statistic on that list was a pitcher’s win-loss record, as 11% of players chose it.  But I am [...]

Last week, minor league pitcher Carlos Rosa was traded from the Kansas City Royals to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Rosa is a promising young reliever out of the Dominican Republic who has his sights set on reaching the D’Backs bullpen. Yet attaining that success will likely be just one issue Rosa and other players in his [...]

As the BDD/Strat-O Matic WGBC gets underway, Round 1 featured a matchup between two teams that won championships by the slimmest of margins – the 1986 Mets’ survival of Game 6 of the World Series by virtue of a ball that snuck through Bill Buckner’s five-hole, and the 1997 Marlins’ Game 7 eleventh-inning two-out walk-off [...]