The last of our deep dives to feature a team that has not won the World Series. Correction: The hockey Rockies were a Colorado hockey team that eventually moved to New Jersey in the 1980s. They were born as the Kansas City Scouts as an expansion team in 1974-75 not…
First correction - the Astros bullpen pitched 26 innings out of the 54 IP by the Astros in the Series not 54. In addition to winning their 2nd World Series in the past 6 seasons, the Astros had the 2nd biggest season win differential (105) than their WS opponent Phillies…
The 87-win Phillies are showing the world that winning 100 games far from guarantees a World Series victory. The Mariners in 2001 won a whopping 116 games but did not even reach the WS! This year for the 2nd time (4) teams won 100 games or more but only one…
Will this year's World Series be one of the greatest ever? One team won 87 games the other 107 so that's a good start. Do the greatest World Series in history have to be 7 games? It certainly helps! We talk about all the 7 game series' since 1950, great…
Originally the 2nd incarnation of the Washington Senators, the Rangers moved to Texas in 1972 from D.C. The Rangers are again a team that has never won the World Series. There's only one more team we've yet to cover with a deep dive that has not won a WS. So…
Aaron Judge is 6'7" & 282 lbs. of baseball amazingness. Shohei Ohtani might be the most outstanding player in baseball this season (again) but Judge was most valuable as without him the Yankees would be watching the playoffs on TV like 22 other MLB teams. We put Judge's 2022 season…
Here's the episode in which we come clean on who we picked before the season. We were right more than we were wrong but had a couple of huge swings and misses. The 2022 MLB playoffs are at the ready and we both pick our World Series participants. For we…
This is an extra episode since we will still drop our weekly Thursday episode tomorrow. As we note in the podcast we needed to this as much for ourselves as for our listeners. It's only been a couple of days since the Mets were booted out of the 2022 MLB…
With the addition of records from the Negro Leagues more than 23,000 have played Major League Baseball. What's the most common name for pitchers and hitters? Hint: it's not the same. How about the most successful pitcher last names? And the most successful hitter last names? There are only 3…
It's too easy to wait until the end of the regular season to pick our winners of this seasons MLB award winners. There is a new award for 'Super Utility Player' in each league. MVP, Cy Young, Rookie-of-the-Year, Manager-of-the-Year. We talk about all of these and even a few more.…
As we were getting ready to record an episode about September roster expansions and how they've changed dramatically, the news about the MLB rule changes for 2023 came out. We could not ignore them as those rule changes are and will be significant! If you've listened to this podcast you…
With the recent passing of Dodger announcer Vin Scully we lost one of the great voices of baseball - be it radio or television. We love to listen to baseball on the radio and once baseball on the radio began in 1921 it was the only way to follow pitch…
The Brewers have been around for more than 50 years but not always as the Brewers. We talk about the team's history, reason for being, its greatest players and most memorable seasons for this team which has unfortunately never brought a World Series win to its great fans. It was…
What started as a way to pass time during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic has grown to be something that's bigger than we ever imagined. We owe a huge thank you to all of our listeners! Do we keep going? Are there enough topics that can sustain another…
Joe Jackson, Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and a few others all are not enshrined in Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. But there is no way these are really 'Almost' guys. They were clearly not just great players, but were among the greatest players of their era as…
If it all it took to be successful only was as simple as changing a team's name that would be smart right? Well the Tampa Bay Devil Rays became the Tampa Bay Rays and they've been so much better ever since! We talk about the franchise's history in this franchise's…
There were 8 new inductees into Cooperstown over the weekend. The various committees finally enshrined Bud Fowler, Buck O'Neil, Minnie Minoso, Gil Hodges, Jim 'Kitty' Katt, Tony Oliva, David Ortiz was voted in as a 1st ballot selection. We think that might have overdone it but agree Ortiz is a…
When a player scores 100 runs in a single season it's considered to be a significant achievement. Yet isn't scoring runs as derivative as stat as are RBI's? Because, it depends - on the other players in the lineup. Fantasy baseball team owners often have to try to pick the…
Unlike many who offer predictions on who's going to be a playoff team, we divulge what we predicted BEFORE this 2022 season started. We did pretty well by our own admission although we did have a big miss. Listen to find out what we got right and what we got…
We're fans of baseball and that includes all levels. Driving past a Little League field seeing kids out there playing baseball makes us smile every time. For nearly all major league players playing baseball starts in backyards, on streets, and wherever there's a ball, a glove, and even sometimes a…
Catching is hard and debilitating to the body. The famed 'tools of ignorance' may be better than they were in the past but squatting for 150-200 MLB pitches a night is still incredibly difficult. There are only 19 catchers in Cooperstown. In the past 30 years 'pitch framing' has been…
Many baseball fans still feel that Sandy Koufax is the GOAT. At least as pitchers go. Despite his relatively short career, Sandy had a sustained period of excellence (6 years) that is unrivaled. 382K's in one season is incredible to think about. But this in no way should sell Clayton…
Already in this 2022 season 2 managers have been fired. Joe Maddon and Joe Girardi. There are no other Joe's managing in MLB so maybe everyone else's job is safe. Why change managers in-season - early-mid-late season? We talk about manager changes over the years - even the fairly recent…
Our second deep dive we turn to the Senior Circuit and one its more recent entrants the San Diego Padres. There was a AAA team called the Padres in the 1940s. The current Padres came as a result of the 1969 expansion and at the advent of two divisions for…