Baseball players are among the highest paid athletes in the world, with salaries so astronomical that they are hard for even the most mathematically inclined fan to keep track of. That’s where Cot’s Baseball Contracts comes in. The website, which is named for Cot
The NCAA baseball regionals are part of the NCAA Division 1 Baseball Championship. Every year around Memorial Day a selection committee decides the 64 teams who will make up the NCAA Baseball tournament. 30 teams get automatic births from winning their conference and 34 are
When compared to the NBA NFL or NHL, the Major League Baseball draft is a crapshoot, with only 66 percent of players selected in the first round ever making the Major Leagues. In fact, three times the first overall pick in the MLB draft never
The manager isn’t the only old guy in a baseball uniform sitting in the dugout. Most Major League teams have at least seven or eight additional coaches who assist the manager in running the team and preparing the players. Managers typically get to pick their
When a team select number one in the Major League Baseball draft they expect to be getting a big time player. However that’s not always the case. In fact, few overall number ones became All-Stars, let alone superstars. Here are ten players who bucked that
For much of baseball history the postseason consisted of just the World Series. That changed in 1969 with the addition of the league championship and again 1995 with wild card round. More playoff series mean more drama, and below we countdown the 10 greatest non-World
With 162 games, few off days, and all sorts of rules about which teams play which other teams how many times, the Major League Baseball schedule is the most difficult to set in all of professional sports. For most of MLB’s history employees of Major
The first African American baseball player in Major League baseball history was Jackie Robinson who joined the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Larry Doby became the first African American baseball player to join the American League when he suited up for the Cleveland
TBS relationship with Major League baseball began in 1972 when Ted Turner, who owned an Atlanta based UHF station that was then called WTCG (an acronym for Watch This Channel Grow), purchased the rights to broadcast Atlanta Braves games. In 1976 two very important things
2013 was a big year for Vanderbilt baseball. They had a team record 54 victories against 12 loses and they won their second SEC title in three years under coach Tim Corbin. In the NCAA Tournament the Commodores made it to the Super Regionals, but