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Archive for October, 2015

Misery Loves Company: World Series Beckons Long Suffering Franchises

Posted in Baseball History, MLB, Post Season on October 16, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Baseball’s final four is set, and it features a quartet with one of the longest cumulative championship droughts in LCS history. So, forget the recent talk of dynasties and title defenses. When the champagne flows after this year’s World Series, it will quench the thirst of a long-suffering fan base. Yearly Cumulative World Series Drought […]

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Home Runs Trump Small Ball In Postseason Play

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Post Season, Statistical Analysis on October 13, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The MLB postseason had a power surge on Monday. Yesterday’s four division series games featured a long ball barrage that set a myriad of records, including the most home runs and runs scored in a single day of postseason play. Who said the playoffs were all about small ball? To be fair, before Monday’s outburst, both […]

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Failure to Play by the Rules Gives MLB, Utley Black Eye

Posted in Baseball on October 11, 2015 | 17 Comments »

Records are made to be broken, not rules, and certainly not the legs of middle infielders. Chase Utley was just trying to break up a double play. As it turned out, he not only broke the leg of Mets’ shortstop Ruben Tejada, but also one of baseball’s most ignored rules. Whether or not you believe […]

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Failure Breeds Success for 2015 Yankees

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees on October 7, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees’ return to the postseason didn’t last long, but, because most people didn’t expect them to make the playoffs, even a brief cameo in October can be considered an over-achievement. However, just because the team exceeded diminished expectations doesn’t mean that over-achievement was a success. Under the old Yankees’ standard, it would have been […]

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