Mike Petriello

If the new rules put into place in 2023 were intended to help return some action to the basepaths, then they succeeded. Runners attempted to steal 1,072 additional bases in 2023 than they did in ’22, and they were successful 80.2% of the time, the highest mark in AL/NL history.

It hasn’t even been a week since the Rangers won the 2023 World Series, but the 2024 season has already begun, in a manner of speaking. Signings have already happened, minor trades have been made, and the rosters that teams have right now already look different than they did just

For Monday’s Game 3 of the World Series, it’s difficult to imagine a larger difference in the resumes of the starting pitchers. Texas has living legend Max Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young winner with a likely place in Cooperstown, who all but single-handedly willed his Nationals team to the 2019

The World Series is here, and if Arizona-Texas is a most unexpected matchup, it’s also quite a compelling one. Both teams went from more than 100 losses two years ago to the World Series – the first time such a thing has happened – and both teams have an identical

The Phillies don’t have a strong defense, you continue to hear, because for most of the past two years, that’s absolutely been true. In 2022, Philadelphia finished 29th in the Majors in Statcast’s Outs Above Average, and the team’s run to the World Series was full of tales about how

Maybe “Phillies vs. D-backs in the NLCS” isn’t what you had on your bingo card when the season began, because you figured it’d be some combination of Dodgers, Braves, Mets, or Padres. (Remember them?) But that’s who we have, and it’s not hard to get excited about it, because just

The 101-win Orioles, the top seed in the American League, head into Tuesday’s ALDS Game 3 down 2-0 to the 90-win Rangers, the fifth seed. Unless Baltimore can manage to come back and win three consecutive games, which has happened just 11% of the time when teams drop the first

Si el año pasado el duelo de la SDLN entre los Bravos y los Filis fue emocionante – que ganó Filadelfia en cuatro juegos – la revancha de este año promete alcanzar otro nivel. La versión de los Filis del 2023 es superior a la del 2022, y los Bravos

There are eight teams left in the postseason tournament, and four of them – the Dodgers and Braves in the NL, and the Orioles and Astros in the AL – have yet to appear in a game, having locked up the top two seeds in each league and the first-round

If last year’s Braves-Phillies National League Division Series was exciting – and it was, with the Phils winning 3-1 – then this year’s rematch promises to be at another level entirely. The 2023 Phillies are superior to the 2022 Phillies, in our view. The 2023 Braves merely won 104 games