Baseball is a sport played over half the year, and with almost daily games for over six months, the importance of any one individual game is muted. One loss in April doesn’t fill fans with… Read more »
Posts by Jacob Marsalisi
Starting rotations are not evenly balanced. A quick look at a team’s depth chart will show that most rotations petter off near the back end, and some have massive gaps between ace and #5. Fans… Read more »
The steroid era saw an explosion of home runs and scoring in the major leagues, and some parks amplified these effects even more. Coors Field in 2000 was the pinnacle of extreme scoring: 6.25 runs… Read more »
On July 31, 2014, the Red Sox were 48-60 and had just finished the process of unloading 80% of their rotation through trades. The Red Sox were looking for valuable major league assets in return,… Read more »
