Category Archives: MLB

Is Madbum really a monster?

Max Muncy hit a home run off of Madison Bumgarner and watched it soar toward the Bay and Madison Bumgarner reacted predictably and started yelling at Max. Max yelled back and we had one of the great retorts in Pitcher / Hitter history. Muncy: “Bumgarner said ‘don’t watch the ball, run’, and I just told …

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Carlos Santana turns 33 today

and has accumulated 26 bWAR since starting his career in 2010. For perspective, there is not a single Dodger position player who has accumulated at least 25 bWAR since 2010.  Only 46 MLB players have accumulated as much as 25 bWAR since 2010, and nine of them were 1st baseman. Here is the list of …

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Spreading the wealth around

For a brief moment, Dodger fans got their hopes up that the Dodgers were going to hook the last big fish in the baseball pond but just like game five of the 2017 World Series they were unable to land the big fish but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Byrce Harper is a Phillie …

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Division series mayhem abounds aplenty leaving fans from Washington to Los Angeles in the dust

What a crazy set of major league Division series baseball fans were subjected to in the past week. Heck the play in game was just as crazy. Cy Young award winners Max Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander, and David Price all lost. Zach Grienke won. The 2007 NL CY Young Jake Peavy won. At his …

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