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
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
Combat sports is a sporting goods company which makes composite baseball bats. Founded by GE executives in the late nineties, the Canadian company started out by making composite hockey sticks. They moved into the baseball in the early twenty first century, first supplying composite bats
The names of the 30 Major League Baseball teams aren’t particularly funny. Yeah, Chris Farley got off a good Yankee joke in ‘Tommy Boy” but there was a whole lot of context there. Minor league teams, however, have some pretty funny names. Maybe it’s our
Baseball has always been a sport that lends itself well to video games. Because of the pauses in baseball’s game play and the extreme focus on one aspect the game flow — pitcher vs. hitter — early baseball video games were much more realistic than
Major League Baseball’s Fall Classic isn’t always a classic. Sometimes it’s four games to zero laugher that has sports fans searching the dial for football highlights. But there has also been some pretty great World Series in the 100 plus year history of baseball’s postseason
The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals topped the overall MLB baseball standings in 2013. This marked the first time since 1999 that the two teams with the best record have met in the World Series, which was won the the Red Sox. The
America’s pastime has a rich history of producing some pretty juicy gossip. Check out the five most notorious baseball rumors of all-time. Number 5: Mike Piazza denies he is gay People have been speculating upon the sexuality of celebrities ever since there have been celebrities.
We’ve used the sabermetric statistic WAR (Wins Above Replacement) to determine the twenty best baseball players of all-time. We chose WAR to do the ranking because it attempts to account for all of a players contributions and adjusts for what era they played in. Number