I’m not a dad. But I am old enough that baseball, as it’s played today, looks different than how it did when I was younger. Meaning the conventions I grew up with aren’t really contemporary… Read more »
Posts by Khurram Kalim
We’re a week into the 2018 MLB season which, for all its walk-offs, extra innings, home runs, great pitching performances, and great pitching performers who hit home runs, is in the way of free agency… Read more »
In a city with multiple professional teams and overlapping devotion, winning a championship elsewhere buys everyone a little more time. Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles for winning their first championship in the NFL’s post-merger era…. Read more »
So you just spent eight grueling months hitting, throwing, and catching a chunk of mud-rubbed hide across the country, all the while dealing with injuries, a devastating natural disaster in your home city, and one… Read more »
The first (and only) copy of the Baseball America Prospect Handbook that I bought featured a young Jurickson Profar on its cover. Handsome, sporting a glitzy smile and a two-eared batting helmet, Profar made the… Read more »
The MLB divisional round wrapped up after a week-plus of blowouts, nail-biters, comebacks, choke jobs, missed challenges, mold, pitching changes, so many mound visits, and everything in between. The focus switches to the LCS now,… Read more »
When the Cleveland Indians caught the Houston Astros in the American League standings, I asked three of my Yankee fan friends who they’d rather play. The Yankees, of course, are sitting in pole position for… Read more »
Author’s note: In a Banished to the Pen exclusive, we teamed up with Nolan Arenado’s stellar glove to answer fan questions on names, offseason plans, the Dodgers, and much more. Hey everyone, Most of you… Read more »
Chad Bettis pitched in a Major League game on Monday for the Colorado Rockies. It was his first professional start since undergoing chemotherapy during the spring after it was discovered the testicular cancer he had… Read more »
Everyone has their preferred sports play archetypes that lead to deep dives down the YouTube rabbit hole in time-consuming, auto-play compilations. For some, it’s the long home run or the dinger robbery. It could be… Read more »
Even with the addition of the second wild card, at some point a team has to look at their season and figure it’s not ending in a postseason trip, let alone a World Series. For… Read more »
Giancarlo Stanton is big and buff and gets paid a lot of bucks to destroy baseballs. His power is legendary, but for the fact there’s no legend to it. According to MLB.com’s record book of… Read more »
In the bandbox of Citizen’s Bank Park on Wednesday, Mets reliever Hansel Robles entered a Mets-Phillies tilt in a precarious situation. The hard-throwing righty came in to bail out starter Zack Wheeler in the sixth… Read more »