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Sports Central
November 14, 2005
Sara Normand |
Catching Up With Mr. Talented There really aren't many five-tool catchers, but that's what Matt Lauderdale of the Fort Wayne Wizards, a Low-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, hopes to become.   |
Sports Central
December 26, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
Sports Central
May 2, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Upstarts and Stalwarts What makes the baseball season so special is that no individual player's achievement or any team's success is greater than the entirety of the game. |
Sports Central
September 12, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Yanks/Sox Series Inevitable Are you ready to see the World Series pit the Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees again? As much as these two rivals cannot pitch, play defense, or close out games, they do present the most appealing matchup in the NLCS. |
Sports Central
June 12, 2004
David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central
March 3, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees Hopeful Winter Deals Pay Off The Yankees appear substantially better off for the 2005 season, given their pitching acquisitions, but doubts still remain for the long haul in center field and at first base. |
Sports Central
September 5, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees' Failures Not News You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see what may be coming. But whatever the outcome this season, the team's 2004 legacy will be mostly about its failed management and ownership, not its players. |
Salon.com
April 25, 2001
King Kaufman |
Almost triumphant You win some, you lose some, some get rained out. No hard feelings. Except for me... |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2004
Bob Bobala |
Boston's Hottest Stock Are the Red Sox a stock on the rise, or will the Yankees do them in again? |
Sports Central
November 1, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
2004 MLB Season in Retrospect While articles, book deals and high-paying endorsements will be doled out to the Boston Red Sox and their individual players well into the 2005 season, the ending to the 2004 Major League Baseball season left a lot of us perplexed and yearning for a more balanced and tidier ending. |
Sports Central
May 3, 2008
Sean Crowe |
How the Yankees Became the Red Sox The formerly loveable loser Boston Red Sox have become the new Evil Empire. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2002
Allen Barra |
Strength in numbers A conversation with Bill James, the famed statistical baseball analyst just hired by the Red Sox. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Symonds, Lowry, Polek & Weber |
Breaking The Curse Can John Henry's Red Sox finally win a World Series? |
Sports Central
May 25, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Who's Stealing Baseball's Limelight? With Major League Baseball's perennial sluggers just digging in, with their big bats finally coming around as the season's second quarter begins, we have been treated to the feats of several players who have unexpectedly captured the pastime's attention. |
Sports Central
July 26, 2005
Billy Davis |
New and True in Yankee Blue What sort of test must a newcomer pass before earning recognition as a true New York Yankee? Thursday night's game against the Red Sox offered such a test for Alex Rodriguez. |
Sports Central
September 9, 2004
Martin Hawrysko |
September May Bring Baseball's Best While the playoffs are still three weeks away, the regular season is far from over. Ignore these final weeks, in anticipation of the actual postseason, and you might miss out on some of the best that baseball has to offer. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Jim Kaat |
The Mechanics Of Baseball Baseball has evolved in favor of the hitter. Here are nine factors that have changed the game. |
Sports Central
October 20, 2004
Hank Waddles |
It's the End of the World As We Know It The seventh game of any series in any sport is special, but game between the Red Sox and Yankees is something more than we're used to, for about 1,918 reasons. Here are a few. |
Sports Central
October 10, 2005
Zach Jones |
Ozzie Guillen's "Not So Smart" Ball The three most important factors in the Chicago White Sox' success this season, in order of significance, as well as some thoughts on Ozzie's offensive philosophy. |
Sports Central
September 16, 2005
Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Sports Illustrated
September 12, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Sox down Pedro's status tops Boston's long list of questions... |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Check your calendar Despite some feel-good stories in Major League Baseball, keep in mind it's only April... |
Sports Illustrated
July 9, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Fehring the worst Baseball's union head has many issues to solve -- starting with steroids. |
Sports Central
March 17, 2005
Chris Lindshield |
The Most Underrated Player in Baseball San Diego Padres player Mark Loretta shows all-around talent despite a low profile. |
Sports Central
May 20, 2005
William Geoghegan |
Yankees Will Find Middle Ground The Yankees aren't as good as their recent winning streak would lead you to believe, and not as bad as their stumbles out of the gate seemed to indicate. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Season-Ending Races Live Up to Hype Some say that the same teams in 2005 that succeeded to reach the postseason in Major League Baseball in 2004 are old-hat. But this year, unlike past seasons, the road to success was nothing but routine for several of these perennial winners. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Salon.com
October 19, 2002
King Kaufman |
Cinderella, Goliath and other Series myths With the Giants and Angels set to meet in the Fall Classic, it's time for Fox TV and other pundits to manufacture drama. |
Sports Illustrated
April 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
International sensation Ichiro Suzuki, the Mariners' slashing leadoff hitter, shouldn't book any fishing excursions or vacation getaways for the July All-Star break. The rookie has a very good chance of starting the All-Star Game in, of all places, Seattle's Safeco Field... |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: 2008 Baseball Games To Watch You can't watch every game, so you should at least try to catch some of these must-see games. |
Sports Central
May 31, 2005
Derek Daggett |
The Best Team Nobody's Talking About The Padres have surged from fourth-place and five games behind the Dodgers to first place in the National League West and the third best record in baseball. |
Sports Illustrated
June 15, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Putting stock in Bonds' MVP chances Let's start out with a couple of questions about the guy who's really been the best hitter in the National League so far. Hint: it's not Sosa or Rey Ordonez. |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2000
Jeff Pearlman |
Inside Baseball The Yankees' reserves don't have the juice of those of recent vintage |
Fast Company
November 2003
Keith H. Hammonds |
Beane's Magic Back in May, in "How to Play Beane Ball," we wrote glowingly of general manager Billy Beane and his Oakland A's baseball team which, we predicted, "almost certainly will win a lot more games than it will lose this season." We're exhaling now: At press time, the A's were 90-60. |
Sports Central
June 20, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: The Damn Yankees Are the NY Yankees going to their customary form? |
Sports Central
August 23, 2005
Bob Ekstrom |
AL Pennant: Yanks' For the Taking? Well Beantowners, start your guest lists if you must, but don't set that date for this year's Yankee Elimination Party quite yet. It might not come. The Yanks will be hitting the playoffs in peak form. |
Sports Central
September 7, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Stretch Run is Full of Hidden Gems As the sun sets on the 2005 Major League Baseball season, a little retrospection is appropriate. |
Sports Central
June 10, 2004
Eric Poole |
The Best Team in Baseball? The team that might be the best in baseball exists not in real life, but in the land of "couldabeen," as in: "The Pirates 'couldabeen' a great team this year if they 'coulda' kept some players." |
Salon.com
July 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
Taking baseball owners at their word If competitive balance is the main issue in the contract talks, why does their main proposal address payroll imbalance? |
Sports Central
April 6, 2005
Venkat Ganesan |
Reviewing the Big Unit's Yankee Debut Randy Johnson leads the Yankees to an opening day win over the Red Sox. |
Sports Illustrated
June 1, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Jonesin' for some run support Padres right-hander suffering from lack of offensive help... |
Sports Central
August 12, 2004
William Geoghegan |
The Complex Psyche of Red Sox Nation In the world of stats and results, the 2004 Red Sox are not dramatically different from the 2003 team that got within one game of the World Series. |
Sports Illustrated
September 6, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Making a case for Pedro Martinez With 16 wins, Pedro Martinez has a shot at winning 20. What does he have to do to win the Cy Young award? I thought he was already the clear frontrunner, but the mailbag brought some disagreement. |
Sports Central
May 26, 2006
Isaac Miller |
Red Sox and Yankees: Rethinking the Rivalry If this is the most storied rivalry in all of baseball, where was it from 1918 to 1967? |
AskMen.com
Ash Karbasfrooshan |
Becoming A Winner Fall can usually only mean one thing: The Boston Red Sox breaking their fans' hearts. At least, that's the way the story is supposed to go. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
It's Deja Vu, All Over Again Red Sox fans share a common belief, that this is their year. |
Sports Illustrated
May 8, 2002
Tom Verducci |
The toughest out Patience makes Bonds more dangerous than Sosa... |
Salon.com
October 17, 2001
Allen Barra |
The decline and fall of the Yankees -- I mean, the A's Ancient arrogance beats the youthful variety -- this time... |
Sports Illustrated
July 5, 2000
Frank Deford |
Back to 2000 -- and reality -- in Boston Oh, Y2K looked so much like ours. And then the season started, and whaddya know, whatever the millennium, it turned out to be just another Boston baseball season, like any other. |
Sports Central
October 15, 2004
Damian Greene |
NLCS: Paternity is Not a Question Neither of the League Championship Series is over as the 2-0 leaders now travel to enemy territory for three games. This is a problem for both the Yankees and the Cardinals. |
