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Sports Central
September 30, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Strasburg Plan Didn't Kill the Nats The Strasburg Plan had nothing to do with the Nats going no further than the division series last year. And it had nothing to do with them going nowhere but home when the regular baseball season ended this past weekend.   |
Sports Central
October 8, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
The Nats Win, By Hook or By Rooks Bryce Harper might be the overwhelming Rookie of the Year winner when the hardware voting is revealed in due course, but he's not the only Washington Nationals rookie with a talent for coming up powerfully enough when the game gets late. |
Sports Central
August 31, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Testy September Looms For Nats The Washington Nationals are struggling merely to keep themselves in the rear view mirrors of the New York Mets in the National League East. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Capital Humblings For Bold Challengers On Friday the very experienced St. Louis Cardinals and the very experienced New York Yankees gave their worthy, younger, upstart Beltway challengers enough experience in their five-game division series showdowns to bode well enough for the immediate and longer-range futures of each. |
Sports Central
September 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Pain, Not Champagne, For the Nats On Saturday, the Nats' bullpen finally did what they had to do to keep the game in reach. It was far too little, far too late. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Hook Puts the Nats on the Hook Watch Saturday's National League division series game once again. You've seen rookie mistakes. But you've never seen a rookie manager mistake like this. |
Sports Central
September 9, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Slow Learners and Sore Losers The Chicago Cubs are named after baby bears. Thursday night, they behaved like babies. And one of the infants in the middle of it, who actually began as one of the field's diplomats, still insists on taking the low road. |
Sports Central
October 4, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Cardinals Open with a Belt(ran) "Some guys," Matt Carpenter said, "just have a knack for a big game and he's one of them." The Cardinals would love nothing more than to have Carlos Beltran's knack swing them to 10 more October wins. Including the four that end with World Series rings on their fingers. |
Sports Central
October 11, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
The Cardinals Close the Pirates' Storybook The team who lived and died by almost anything except big power on the regular season bombed themselves into the National League Championship Series Wednesday night. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Our Long Nationals Nightmare is Over The man who came into the season leading the prohibitive World Series favorites leaves it with his head in a guillotine basket. |
Sports Central
October 8, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Most Powerful Bunt of All-Time If the Nats go on to win this set, Wilson Ramos will have shoved Moran to one side as having laid down the most powerful bunt of all-time. |
Sports Central
September 29, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Old-Schoolers Flunk Papelbon vs. Harper Papelbon's season is over. The Nats suspended him for four games without pay, to be served after he serves a three-game suspension without pay courtesy of baseball government. |
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. |
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
October 22, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Cardinals May Have Lost in Game 2 Win At what cost will the St. Louis Cardinals' National League Championship Series-evening win Sunday night prove to have come? |
Sports Central
June 30, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Ah, the Trade Winds Blow... The author predicts what kind of trade winds are blowing across the rosters of major league baseball. |
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
July 17, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
2013 All-Star Game: Priceless Who'd have figured American League All-Star manager Jim Leyland thinking he could perform the marriage of sentiment and sound strategy in a single gesture and get away with it because, damn it, it worked, the American League held onto a 3-0 win? |
Sports Central
May 1, 2013
Andrew Jones |
April's Early Warning Signs All in all, the 2013 season looks to be an interesting one. Every division seems to have three or four potential contenders. But most likely May will weed out the weaklings and early overachievers. |
Sports Central
October 24, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: Getting the Drop on the Cardinals It's not that the Boston Red Sox needed the help that badly, opening the World Series with a near-blowout win. But they certainly weren't going to complain if the St. Louis Cardinals wanted to help their cause early enough and often enough. |
Sports Central
August 6, 2012
Louie Centanni |
MLB Predictions: August Until the End Obviously, predictions are meant to be proven wrong -- and I tried to make some bold ones for the sake of speculation, fun, and a legitimate belief in the strangeness of September baseball. |
Sports Central
August 23, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Stay the Course With the Strasburg Plan Michael Collins suggests the pending Strasburg Shutdown is really a well-constructed smokescreen the aim of which is to lull the competition asleep and then, bing! wheel out Strasburg once the postseason, into which the Washington Nationals seem to have a locked-down berth, practically, opens. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2007
Seth Doria |
2007 MLB Preview: National League The NL, division-by-division, in predicted order of finish, plus playoff predictions and individual awards. |
Sports Central
January 21, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Nats Win More Than One Way With Scherzer Almost a year ago, enough of baseball thought Max Scherzer might be a little crazy for spurning the Detroit Tigers' $160 million contract extension offer in favor of playing the market to come. |
Sports Central
May 14, 2012
Andrew Jones |
Grow Up, Bryce Harper All eyes are on you Bryce Harper and trust me, people will like you a lot more and remember you more positively if you bat .250 with 5 home runs and are gracious and positive and a good teammate. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2008
Scott Shepherd |
NL Wild Card Wild Cards A break down of the NL wild card race, including a list of the wild cards each team has as they fight for the all important fourth playoff spot. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central
June 6, 2013
Joshua Duffy |
John Mozeliak, Take a Bow Being a Major League General Manager is an ever-delicate walk between trying to win now while at the same time setting up for the long term. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Giants Thrown Onto Threshold of World Series Is it unreasonable for Cardinals fans to ask themselves whether their team is trying, literally, to throw this National League Championship Series to the Giants? |
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. |
Sports Central
August 20, 2005
Daniel Collins |
The National League Scorecard Comments on Rafael Palmeiro's Hall of Fame credentials, Sammy Sosa's lackluster statistics, the wild card race, and the performance of the National League West. |
Sports Central
October 20, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The New Murphy's Law The Cubs are trying to figure out how a guy who's never hit more than fourteen home runs in any regular season has hit five in a single postseason, and off the league's top three Cy Young Award candidates while he was at it. |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Seventh Heaven Can a pair of aces keep the Yankees from another title? |
Sports Illustrated
August 13, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Look who's talking Players made the right call by not setting a strike date |
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
October 14, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLDS: Clubs (er, Cubs) Go to NLCS Believe it. The Chicago Cubs have clubbed their way into the National League Championship Series. |
Sports Central
May 1, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Baseball's Defiant April? The Cardinals have the National League Central rather secure for now, three games ahead of the .500-clinging Cincinnati Reds. And the Angels have the American League West's basement rather secure for now, themselves, nine and a half games out of first place. |
Sports Central
July 18, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The All-Star Game: Groovin' What happened at the All-Star Game with Derek Jeter and Adam Wainwright. |
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
November 6, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Greatness on display Hall of Fame-bound hurlers were the story of Game 7... |
Sports Central
October 24, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
World Series So Far a Snoozer MLB's 2006 postseason has been lethargic and limp. |
Sports Central
March 30, 2005
Adam Russell |
Top 10 Questions For Opening Day Despite the flurry of activity surrounding Major League Baseball's drug policy, the offseason had a number of events that raised an even larger number of questions heading into the first games. |
Sports Illustrated
October 25, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
World Series Breakdown In theory the Diamondbacks have enough to win the Series -- Schilling and Johnson just have to win all four of their starts. That's easier said than done against the Yankees, though, who have dominant starters of their own and are smart enough to steal one of those games... |
Sports Central
July 12, 2010
Paul Foeller |
National League Midseason Awards Here's a look at the best National League players at midseason |
Sports Central
January 25, 2005
Jon Gonzales |
Biting the Big Apple: MLB Preview You thought last year was whacked? This year will turn inside out when the Big Apple erupts on its newest newcomers ... and it's going to get ugly. This and the predictions of a wild and wooly year of baseball to come. |
Sports Central
June 27, 2011
Matt Thomas |
MLB Trade Deadline: The Sellers The buyers and sellers in MLB have identified themselves and there should be a very active run up to the July 31st trade deadline. Sit back and enjoy what should amount to one of the more active trade seasons in several years! |
Sports Central
July 23, 2009
Matt Thomas |
Is Halladay Really Going to Be Traded? Here are the 10 most valuable facts you need to know about the 2009 MLB trade deadline. |
Sports Central
June 4, 2012
Adam Russell |
Top Five Surprises of the MLB Season With two months of the current MLB season in the books, here are five things that, while maybe they're not that uncommon, are surprising to me. |
Sports Central
March 16, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Alex Johnson, RIP: The Fires Within To hear the Whitey Herzog say it, Johnson -- who died February 28 at 72, after a battle with cancer -- was anything but a handful, once you played things straight with him. |
