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Sports Illustrated
August 13, 2002
Jeff Pearlman |
Hello, Houston Led by a makeshift rotation, the Astros quickly climbed into NL Central contention.   |
Sports Illustrated
April 23, 2002
Jeff Pearlman |
Pitching In A surprisingly sharp rotation has meant everything to the otherwise ragged Mets... |
Sports Illustrated
July 17, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Rich with starting pitching in April, the Dodgers have been disarmed by injuries |
Sports Illustrated
April 20, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
Salon.com
October 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
Batting around After the Angels' second straight 10-run outburst, a tight World Series is looking like a potential blowout. |
Sports Illustrated
July 25, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball As the trade deadline nears, contenders are looking for reinforcements |
Sports Illustrated
May 9, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Expected to be one of the Rangers' strong points, their relief corps has been absorbing a Texas-sized pounding |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
King Kaufman |
One last surprise After six nights of roller coaster weirdness, the Angels and Giants played a relatively uneventful Game 7. And when it was over, Anaheim almost looked like fun. |
Sports Illustrated
May 24, 2000
Tom Verducci |
The trouble with starting young The next Golden Age of young starting pitching was on display at the 1997 All-Star game.... |
Sports Central
March 21, 2008
Mike Round |
MLB 2008 Preview: NL's Best Rotations A look at the pitching staff of six NL MLB teams. |
Sports Illustrated
April 30, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Lowe-Hitters In a weekend of near no-hitters only Boston's Derek Lowe finished the job... |
Sports Illustrated
July 23, 2003
Albert Chen |
Makeover The Phillies' pitching staff, mediocre last year, is this year's strength. |
Sports Illustrated
July 18, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball Even the Braves suffer pitching woes, and Andy Ashby is the latest cure |
Sports Illustrated
May 7, 2003
Albert Chen |
Jump-starters The Mariners grabbed the early lead in the AL West thanks to the emerging young pitchers in their rotation. |
Sports Illustrated
October 3, 2000
Jeff Pearlman |
Playoffs: Giants-Mets Breakdown How key is it for the Mets' pitching staff to come through? Consider: The Giants were second in the NL in batting average and slugging percentage, third in runs and home runs.... |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Braves still a force to be reckoned with... |
Sports Illustrated
June 27, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Moving forward Pitching duo will help fill some of the Cards' on-field void. |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Seventh Heaven Can a pair of aces keep the Yankees from another title? |
Sports Illustrated
August 6, 2002
Tom Verducci |
The rich get richer The emergence of young hurlers fortifies Atlanta's rotation. |
Sports Central
April 22, 2008
Mike Round |
Ranking MLB Rotations: American League The Cleveland Indians top the list of the top five ranked pitching rotations in the American League. |
Salon.com
September 22, 2000
Joan Walsh |
Who let the dogs out? If you don't know, you haven't been following the best team -- and the best kept secret -- in baseball. |
Sports Illustrated
September 12, 2000
Stephen Cannella |
Inside Baseball The key to the American League playoff chase may not be in the stars |
Sports Central
February 23, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Five Aces, Five Falls, One Coach Who Learned the Hard Way The Washington Nationals say Stephen Strasburg won't be limited in his 2012 starts, but will be limited in his total innings' workload this season. |
Salon.com
October 9, 2002
Joan Walsh |
Clear the field Dusty Baker is the greatest manager in San Francisco Giants history. So why is team owner Peter Magowan on the verge of letting him go? |
Salon.com
October 1, 2002
King Kaufman |
Picking winners In the baseball playoffs, the National League teams all look vulnerable and the American League teams all look unbeatable. Something's gotta give. |
Sports Central
August 1, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Astros' Play is Deja Vu All Over Again A surprise since the All-Star Break is the torrid streak of the Houston Astros, with a 22-7 record in July, the best home record in the majors and tops in winning percentage through July 30th. |
Salon.com
October 8, 2002
King Kaufman |
America loves underdogs Just not enough to watch them play. Too bad, because the baseball teams that are still alive are a stone gas. |
Sports Illustrated
July 2, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
All the Answers In the game of prognostication you use every available tool. We've gazed into our Magic 8 Ball to see how the remainder of the baseball season will play out |
Sports Illustrated
August 16, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Giants expect to keep Baker The idea of Giants manager Dusty Baker on the free-agent market this winter is intriguing to several teams that expect to have openings after the season. But a major league baseball source said Baker has told San Francisco GM Brian Sabean at least twice this year that he'll stay on. |
Salon.com
September 19, 2002
King Kaufman |
Curt Schilling needs the ball The five-man rotation steals starts from aces and gives them to lesser arms. When will a manager have the guts to ditch it? |
Salon.com
October 19, 2002
Joan Walsh |
Giants in six Baseball experts are swooning for the scrappy Angels. But the Giants are scrappy too -- and they're a better team. |
Sports Illustrated
October 10, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Tale of two managers While Baker blundered, Torre worked his magic again... |
Sports Illustrated
January 22, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Take That, You Mets! Gary Sheffield may give the Braves the punch needed to stay ahead of New York... |
Sports Central
June 10, 2005
William Geoghegan |
These Cubs Are Dusty's Kind of Team The 2005 Cubs, the stripped-down, less powerful, injury-riddled, not-that-great-on-paper Cubs, are playing better than the 2004 edition really ever did. |
Sports Illustrated
October 9, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Rotation proclamation This MLB postseason proves that depth is vital to a winning staff |
Sports Central
January 24, 2007
Mike Round |
MLB Pitchers Exploit Tight Market A look at the value of MLB pitchers. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central
May 28, 2008
Mike Round |
MLB Contenders or Pretenders? Buy or sell the Marlins as an NL East threat?... Buy or sell Detroit making the playoffs?... Buy or Sell Lance Berkman as NL MVP?... etc. |
Sports Central
January 6, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
From Cy-VP to Sayonara? Some speculation commences that precedent argues against Justin Verlander, the American League's Cy Young Award winner and Most Valuable Player Award winner for 2011, facing other than sobering after-effects. |
Salon.com
October 21, 2002
King Kaufman |
"Oh! My God!" The Giants and Angels don't seem able to play a dull World Series game. Even the participants have been amazed so far. |
Sports Central
July 11, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: A Brave Prediction A glance at baseball's National League East and you might say every team is within striking distance. A more careful look and one team appears to have what it takes to win. |
Sports Illustrated
August 20, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Difference makers Complementary players will impact the stretch run for baseball's pennants. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Illustrated
March 26, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
A Matter of Time Look for the Cubs to call up righthander Mark Prior, 21, sooner rather than later... |
Sports Central
March 5, 2009
Mike Round |
Forget Steroids and Recession: Play Ball! Here's a look around MLB's American and National Leagues and predictions for the upcoming season. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
King Kaufman |
Nine predictions and nine observations The Yankees won't do it again, the A's will go far. And stop calling them "ballparks"! |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Illustrated
October 1, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Truth Be Told Beware conventional wisdom. Here are 10 myths of these October playoffs, and our expert is happy to dispel them |
Sports Illustrated
April 16, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Design Flaws The Rangers and others have seen winter's best-laid plans fail to blossom in spring... |
Sports Central
July 6, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
D-Train's Derailment, and Others' How strange and sad it is, now and over a lifetime of watching and loving the game, that as often as not the players who are the most fun to watch become the players whose careers derail soon enough after they get their first tastes of success. |
