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NewsJoe Posnanski is a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author, an Emmy Award-winning writer and has been awarded National Sportswriter of the Year.
 | Matt Carpenter is the one who provided the remarkable part. Carpenter led off for the Cardinals with a home run. In the second inning, he homered again. He led off the fourth by smashing a double, and later in the same inning, he doubled again.
More» Carpenter slugs 3 homers, 2 doubles |
 | The problem with almost-trades, those would-be, baseball-altering deals that almost happen, is that you can never be sure how close they really came. Baseball circles are filled with idle trade talk.
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 | Baseball's perpetual conflict between offense and defense drives evolutions in the game.
More» Desmond drills 472-foot homer at 110.4 mph |
 | Zack Greinke has never had the most dominating stuff but his consistent excellence will eventually lead him to Cooperstown.
More»Zack Greinke on being selected for his 5th ASG |
 | Satchel Paige's debut was different, very different, from the other baseball pioneers of his time. Paige pitched in his first Major League game 70 years ago this week, and it was an event unlike anything before or since.
More»MLB Tonight remembers Satchel Paige |
 | Before we talk about Kyle Schwarber (and a little Bryce Harper), let's point out that in the old days, a defender built a reputation and kept it more or less forever.
More» Schwarber throws Lindor out at second |
 | Maybe you noticed this -- New York's Aaron Judge is having a crazy season. You look at his numbers -- .281/.399/.575 with 24 home runs, 57 RBIs, 61 runs -- and it looks basically like a continuation of the season near-MVP season he had last year. Double the counting numbers and it's an almost exact duplicate of a year ago. Yet, when you break down his season a certain way, you see something rather shocking.
More» Judge clubs a solo smash for his 24th homer |
 | Baseball history is filled with blunders. Other sports have their blunders too, naturally, but no sport celebrates and memorializes its mistakes, its flubs, its errors, its slip-ups, its faux pas quite like baseball.
More» Bartman interference |
 | Ever since I was a kid, there has been something magical about the 81st game of the baseball season. You know why: Because 81 games marks the halfway point of the season, which means for just a short while you can double everybody's stats and (sort of) predict what amazing seasons might happen.
More» Judge opens the scoring with a solo home run |
 | OK, this is fascinating: Several sites offer the percentage chance that every team has for making the playoff
More»Morosi talks possible sellers at Trade Deadline |
 | Today is Richard Hidalgo's 43rd birthday -- do you remember how he seemingly came out of nowhere in 2000? It wasn't really out of nowhere; Hidalgo had been a pretty big prospect for the Astros throughout the late 1990s. But he did not seem to be panning out.
More» Hidalgo hits grand slam on Opening Day |
 | Washington traded for Kansas City closer Kelvin Herrera on Monday. It sure seems like this is the latest in a long series of moves by Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo, who has been trying for six years to build the bullpen that, this time, finally, would win the big game.
More» Nats finalize trade for Royals' Herrera |
 | The challenge is to explain the greatness of Mike Trout. Many have tried. Few, it seems, have broken through. There's a general consensus that Trout is the best player in baseball and has been for a while now … and somehow he is STILL underrated.
More» Trout flashes glove, hits two home runs |
 | The thrill of watching outfielders make mind-boggling throws goes back to the earliest days of the game. Today's Throwback Thursday goes back to what I like to think of as the golden era of right-field arms.
More» Parker throws out Downing at the plate |
 | From 1976-80, the San Francisco Giants won 75 or fewer games each season ... except one. In '78, kind of out of nowhere, the Giants won 89 games and sort of contended for the National League West title. What happened to those Giants? They won 42 games by one run. Well, in 2018, the Mariners are in the midst of potentially an even more remarkable run.
More» Mariners offense backs Paxton's gem in win |
 | This is now Lorenzo Cain's team.
More» Cain smacks a solo homer to left |
 | For a week in late April and early May of 1969, Babe Ruth actually had 715 home runs. It was a sports scandal. This is the remarkable thing about Ruth's magic number of 714. Even the most minor adjustment will cause a scandal.
More» '32 WS, Gm 3: Babe Ruth's Called Shot |
 | It seems a new generation of switch-hitters is coming along. Here are the 10 best switch-hitters in baseball today.
More» Ramirez goes deep from both sides of plate |
 | With starters throwing fewer innings and more emphasis on bullpen strategy, the pitcher win stat seems to be less valuable. But Joe Posnanski says history shows the win will be hard to kill.
More»Romo starts 2 games in a row, K's 6 over 2 1/3 frames |
 | This is mostly about one year of baseball. It's not a calendar year, because Eric Davis did not have a calendar-year kind of career.
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