A shitty thing about baseball, stretching back to Bob Costas’s largely wrong-headed conditional invocation of…
It is an accepted truth that the Houston Astros are planet-eaters, loaded beyond reason with all the things a…
The Tampa Bay Rays clinched an American League wild-card spot—their first postseason berth since 2013—on Friday…
Having been surprised and inspired by Comrade Burneko’s scolding paean to the virtues of minor league baseball…
ESPN reported this morning that the wife, child, and mother-in-law of Blake Bivens, who pitches for the Tampa Bay…
A spokesman for the Miami Marlins apologized today for a bit of spicy Twitter banter in which the Marlins’ account…
A crucial AL East game between the Rays and the Red Sox ground to a screeching halt in the eighth inning on…
The benches cleared briefly in the middle of the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s Rays-Yankees tilt in New York. No…
The Orioles are in the midst of a historically bad season with many lowlights that will likely be used in hospitals…
Any self-respecting student of insane Machiavellian gambits should be familiar with the Madman Theory, Richard…
Given all of the problems with the Rays—and there are many—dire situations call for nontraditional thinking. Like…
While the Rays were unable to stop the red-hot Twins from getting a win on Friday, at least Tropicana Field was once…
It’s old hat by now to say the Rays have attendance issues. The stadium’s bad. The location’s bad. Ownership is bad.…
Less than two weeks after Blake Snell made it known how miffed he was that his team would pay him only barely more…
Last season Blake Snell was voted into the first All-Star Game of his career, led the majors in wins, ERA and ERA+,…
Yes, sure, the simplest way to catch and field a baseball is to stick a glove in its path and squeeze at the moment…