This isn’t your ordinary All-Decade Team of the 1980s. That’s too easy. In this 10-year span, we needed eight position players, a starting pitcher, and a closer. Instead of judging players by their body of work during the decade, we chose individual seasons and we could only have one representative per baseball season during this decade, as every year […]
October’s Single Season Best is Hershiser, not Bumgarner
Madison Bumgarner is a good pitcher who has just completed one of the all-time great post-season pitching performances in the history of baseball. The ace of the San Francisco Giants staff threw over 52-innings while going 4-1 with a microscopic 1.03 ERA this past October. He upped his game even more in the World Series by […]
World Series Poem
These Royals Have Similarities to 1987 Minnesota Twins
Shields Failing Big Game Tests
When the Kansas City Royals traded for “Big Game” James Shields from the Tampa Bay Rays, they acquired an ace who ate a lot of innings and provided much needed stability for their starting rotation. His presence on their staff was just what the doctor ordered. However, when you get to the post-season, this is […]
Kansas City Royals Epic Post-Season Continues
The Kansas City Royals are storming into the World Series on one of the best and most exciting rolls I have ever seen. The Wild Card game against the Oakland Athletics pretty much tells all of us what we need to know about these Royals. As you know, they were trailing 7-3 going into the bottom of […]