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The Fantasy Baseball Numbers Do Lie: One of 2024’s true breakouts is hiding in Chicago
Once Houston's luck shifts, so will José Altuve's numbers. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)A simple look at a box score or a study of fantasy categories doesn't always tell the whole story of how a player is performing. Dalton Del Don attempts to identify misleading numbers that are worth a closer look.Yes
Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Widely available players ready to help your squad
José Soriano has settled into a starting role and has a matchup against the Twins fantasy baseball managers can take advantage of this weekend. (Photo by Aaron Doster/Getty Images)If the paternity list didn’t make a mess of your fantasy roster this week, then the IL probably did. These are challenging times. We have a few
Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount
Physics When a baseball is tilted and spinning just right, its raised, hand-stitched seams skew the process by which its wake is created and radically shift its trajectory in the air By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan A baseball’s seams play a larger part in the sport than we had thoughtAaron Doster/Getty Images The seams on a baseball
Baseball: The Safest Sport for High School Athletes?
Meeting Coverage > AAOS — And, no surprise, national data show football is the most injurious by John Gever, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today March 11, 2023 LAS VEGAS -- Annual surveys of high school athletic trainers show that, among nine major sports, boys' football has the highest injury rate and baseball the lowest, researchers reported
Fantasy Baseball: Concern level for six worrisome pitchers, from Jose Berrios to MacKenzie Gore
As we near the halfway point of the 2022 season, some of our favorite starting pitchers are still giving us heart palpitations. Riding out a struggling starter in the early stages of the season is in line with convention, but aren't we past that point? Shouldn't the numbers have normalized by now? Can't we cut…
Fantasy Baseball: Looking for another Ty France? We can help
Ty France earned a turn in the fantasy spotlight when he posted a memorable stat line on Saturday night that included going 5-for-6 with a homer and five RBIs. And he followed up that effort with a homer and a three-hit game on Sunday.Those eye-popping numbers give me a great reason to highlight someone who…
March 4th, 2022Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for March 4, the most commanding day of the year:1) Dazzy Vance (1891)Charles Arthur Vance got his nickname from the dazzling fastball that helped him win 197 Major League games – but nary a one until he had turned 31. Vance mostly pitched in the…
Dokaben Baseball Manga Creator Shinji Mizushima Passes Away at 82
Mizushima launched seminal sports manga in 1972, ended it in 2018 Shinji Mizushima, the creator of such seminal baseball manga as Dokaben, Abu-san, and Yakȳu-Kyō no Uta (A Baseball Fan's Poem), passed away on January 10 at a Tokyo hospital due to pneumonia. He was 82. Mizushima had been reportedly under medical treatment for an…
HS baseball stars face off at WWBA tourney
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Best in baseball: Giants claim NL West crown
26 minutes agoSAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants entered the 2021 season as afterthoughts in their own division. They'll end it as the most unlikely of usurpers.With an 11-4 rout of the Padres in Sunday afternoon’s regular-season finale at Oracle Park, the Giants ended the Dodgers’ eight-year reign atop the National League West and captured their…