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Ranking the Second Place Teams Most Likely to Make the Playoffs

With about 100 games to go in the regular season, there is plenty of time for shake-ups atop each division. In ...

Appreciate Albert Pujols’ Greatness in the Here and Now

When selecting superlatives like "the greatest player of all-time," there's a natural tendency to look back to the past. Without considering ...

The Bronze Medal In Baseball Records

They are records that many of us know well. We know who holds the record, and we know who they passed, ...

How Interleague Play Should Be Scheduled

While inter-league play is still a relatively recent innovation, it is a tragic oversight on the part of Major League Baseball ...

The Best Retired Numbers in Baseball: No. 1-9

I recently decided that I would start a tradition of getting my son a baseball jersey for each of his birthdays. ...

Detroit Tigers Win Sixth Straight, Sweep Rangers

The Texas Rangers have one of the most prolific offensive squads in baseball this season. Against the Detroit Tigers, the Rangers ...

Detroit Tigers on Pace to Win 90 Games and Division Title

The Detroit Tigers are exactly two ninths of the way through the 2009 campaign. Detroit is in excellent position to make a run ...

Jim Thome’s Quest to Become the All-Time Strikeout Leader

Baseball, as we know, is a game of statistics. Lists of numbers attributed to names form a database from which many ...

The Best Knuckleballers of All Time

Direct TV has a pretty good thing when you get the baseball package and can watch eight games at a time. ...

Can Dontrelle Willis Get Train Back on Track?

In the past five complete MLB seasons there have been exactly four men to win 20 games or more in one ...

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