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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. |
Sports Central April 1, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
Santana, Down for the Count, Maybe Career We love to watch men with the mindsets of bulldogs on the field or on the mound. We don't always stop to think that the very thing we admire about them could be the very thing that finishes them before their time. |
Sports Central September 1, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Macho Meatheads It's one thing for a team to nudge a key wounded warrior back to the field as soon as reasonably possible. It's something else again for a team whose season has (or should be) blown up to push it. |
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. |
Sports Central March 14, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Frank Jobe, RIP: Elbow and Shoulder Above the Rest Tommy John probably should be in the Hall of Fame -- as much in the pioneer category as any other. And so should the physician who developed and performed that surgery named for him. |
Sports Central July 3, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
The Bright, Elusive Butterflies of Cy They don't just speak of R.A. Dickey as the likely or most obvious candidate to start this year's All-Star Game; they're talking about his possibilities for bagging the Cy Young Award. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central May 28, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
So, What's in a Retired Number? Haven't the Yankees retired way too many numbers? |
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 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. |
Sports Illustrated September 3, 2002 Jane Leavy |
Pitcher perfect Sandy Koufax overcame constant, seating pain to become the greatest pitcher of his time. |
Sports Central January 3, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2013: Unrealities Baseball's 2013 included a few hallucinations and several surrealities. Some might have wished some of the hallucinations were real even as others might have wished some of what was real was merely a hallucination. |
Sports Central February 9, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Fleeting Glories Here are how some other postseason MVPs have fared since they came up biggest when their teams needed them the most. |
Sports Central November 7, 2005 Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball. |
Sports Central August 25, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
Mike Flanagan, RIP: Why? What drove Mike Flanagan -- once a tenacious but abundantly-humorous Baltimore Orioles pitcher, to leave himself with a bullet in his head, to be found dead on a trail of his property at 59. |
Sports Central January 2, 2006 Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central April 5, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Mike Cuellar, RIP: "I Can Still See the Look on His Face" The heat of the moment never bothered Cuellar, who died of stomach cancer at 72 Friday. Come to think of it, the heat of the anything never bothered him. |
Sports Central June 28, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Will the Nats Spoil Stephen Strasburg? Are the Washington Nationals going to ruin the prodigy before his time? |
Sports Illustrated April 9, 2003 Albert Chen |
Rust-Free How much more can the Mets expect from 40-year-old David Cone? |
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. |
Sports Central January 27, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central January 5, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
2003: Never a Dull Moment "We try every way we can do to kill this game," Sparky Anderson once said of baseball, "but for some reason, nothing nobody does never hurts it." That was then, this is now. Nothing nobody does never hurts it still, but lots of people do continue to embarrass it. |
Salon.com October 9, 2001 King Kaufman |
Playoff predictions Our writer bravely looks at the baseball games ahead and calls 'em as he sees 'em (while crossing his fingers)... |
Sports Central December 31, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central June 21, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
Boys Will Be Boys Roger Clemens gets off the hook on a perjury rap because either the House Committee for the Sending of Swell Messages to Kids, the actual prosecution, or the original Mitchell Report bungled its way across the sticky wickets of actual or alleged performance-enhancing substances. |
Sports Central November 13, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
HOF Ballot: The Rest of the Newcomers That's the problem with Hall of Fame ballots. Other than the obvious there-because-it's-five-years-retired players, picking the worthies from among the newcomers is both a challenge and a lot of fun. |
Sports Central January 24, 2007 Mike Round |
MLB Pitchers Exploit Tight Market A look at the value of MLB pitchers. |
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. |
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? |
Sports Central July 10, 2009 Diane M. Grassi |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 4) It is the age-old argument that will never go away amongst baseball aficionados. And that is the comparison of individual players from different eras in which they played. |
Sports Central December 5, 2013 Jeff Kallman |
They're First Ballot Hall of Famers, End of Discussion If Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine don't become first-ballot Hall of Famers (and you can throw Frank Thomas into this mix, too), forget who's going to have some splainin' to do -- there ought to be an investigation. |
Sports Central June 10, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Brien's Song Brien Taylor's may be only the saddest of stories involving baseball's number-one draft picks. Here are some others who didn't flower fully for assorted reasons |
Sports Illustrated September 5, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Batteries charged Astros' young guns thrive with help of veteran backstops... |
Wired June 2004 Tom McNichol |
The Ultimate Pitching Machine Hardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into precision-guided flamethrowers. Batter up! |
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. |
Sports Central December 5, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Three For the Hall, First Ballot Let's begin a Hall of Fame Class of 2015-to-be examination with a look at the new ballot arrivals. |
Sports Central April 19, 2010 Bill Hazell |
Jimenez Should Thank His Manager Ubaldo Jimenez, the rifle-armed right-hander in the Colorado Rockies' rotation, is lucky. |
Sports Central July 8, 2009 Jeff Kallman |
SC's All-Time MLB Draft (Pt. 2) Sports columnists choose an all time MLB team. |
Sports Central January 17, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
The Dutchman and Other HOF Thoughts Well, now. I no longer have to apologize for championing Bert Blyleven as a Hall of Famer, which I've done for about the previous decade. He finally made it in his final try with the Baseball Writers Association of America. |
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. |
Sports Central February 20, 2011 Jess Coleman |
How Pitchers Can Prevent Injuries Every year, over 25% of the money spent on Major League Baseball pitchers is spent on pitchers on the disabled list. |
Sports Central March 5, 2007 Mike Round |
Under the '07 MLB Fantasy Radar Here are 10 speculative picks for this year's draft. |
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. |
Salon.com July 31, 2002 King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
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 Illustrated August 23, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Overshadowed Sorry, Wells -- Martinez has inside track on Cy Young... |
Sports Central August 23, 2012 Ross Lancaster |
Why the Nationals Should Pitch Strasburg The team should take the gamble on Strasburg and pitch him for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs. |
Sports Central November 11, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
Junior, Trevor Time Lead HOF Ballot Ken Griffey and Trevor Hoffman are two of 14 new entrants on the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot, and among those they're two who should be no-questions-asked Hall of Famers. |
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 December 31, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |