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Sports Central
October 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
These Royals Can Hit Like, Well, Orioles, If Need Be The Royals hitting home runs? The Orioles stealing bases? The Royals becoming baseball's first team to win four extra-inning games in one postseason? Oops. They just did that.   |
Sports Central
October 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crazyball They know the Mets won't be pushovers, at least as much as the Mets know the Royals won't be, either. |
Sports Central
October 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The World Series Win's a Bum's Rush Nitpick all you want, but it's falling on deaf ears in San Francisco and a lot of other places. Whomever else did whatever else Madison Bumgarner was the World Series this year |
Sports Central
October 25, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Royals Win Pennant on the Run The Royals are headed for a Series against the New York Mets that promises at minimum to be as arduously exciting as the American League Championship Series they just finished against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
Sports Central
October 7, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
They Did! They Did! They Did Taw Some Puddy Tats! Considering that they won 96 games in winning an American League East and just shoved the Tigers away in three straight, some think the Orioles already have done anything. And almost everything. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Edinson Lights Up You should have seen Edinson Volquez and the Kansas City Royals handling the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. |
Sports Central
November 3, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crowned Royals, Drowned Mets On a dark night when the New York Mets needed a Dark Knight to keep them alive in the World Series, Matt Harvey did everything he could. And it ended up for nothing. |
Sports Central
October 10, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
The Orioles Like Mondays, So Far What a difference Monday makes. To Jim Johnson and to the Baltimore Orioles. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Win a Hunt-and-Peck Thriller Bernard Malamud and Douglas Wallop themselves couldn't have written Tuesday's script. Kansas City, which hasn't seen the Royals anywhere near the postseason since the Reagan Administration, wouldn't have bought it prior to Tuesday night. |
Sports Central
September 26, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Clinch the AL Central Last year, they needed the wild card play-in game to kick their way into a postseason run that ended one game short of a World Series triumph. This year, the Kansas City Royals won't have to worry about that kind of tension. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
How Much of a Bargain is James Shields? What are the Padres getting for the coming four years? Shields's most obvious ability is the innings he dines upon. |
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
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
April 23, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Wild Weekend in Kansas City Who did these Royals and Athletics think they were -- the Dodgers and the Giants? The Red Sox and the Yankees? |
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
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. |
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
July 9, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
No Royals v. NL After All, But... The genuinely bad news: the all-star voting is still broken and still in need of fixing. (Er, repairing). |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Scouts honor Advanced reports are key to Yankees' success... |
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
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
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
April 25, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
O's what a relief! Baltimore's bullpen has become its strongest unit... |
Sports Central
November 7, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Credible Evidence and a Fresh Beer A post season analysis of major league baseball. |
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
June 18, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Cardinal Sinners? Royal Stuffers? If the St. Louis Cardinals' front office isn't facing an investigation into whether they hacked into the Houston Astros' internal data networks, Kansas City fans are gleefully stuffing online all-star ballot boxes in favor of the Royals. |
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
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
March 5, 2007
Mike Round |
Under the '07 MLB Fantasy Radar Here are 10 speculative picks for this year's draft. |
Sports Central
May 17, 2005
Adam Russell |
Baseball's Five Biggest Surprises As it is nearly every year, the early part of the Major League Baseball season includes a number of surprises. |
Sports Central
January 2, 2006
Jeff Kallman |
Remembering Baseball Legends Lost A tribute to baseball legends who died in 2005. |
Sports Central
July 22, 2013
Jeff Kallman |
Erik Bedard, Knowing His Limits Erik Bedard just might be a pitcher who's smart enough and experienced enough to know his limits, even if he did learn them by attrition. It doesn't -- shouldn't -- make him seem any less a competitor. |
Sports Illustrated
May 17, 2000
Tom Verducci |
A heated debate about the hot corner ...So we'll discuss outfield throwing arms, why the Dodgers underachieve, the usual sprinkling of Hall of Fame questions and a beauty contest between two of the game's best third basemen ever.... |
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
September 8, 2007
Jeff Kallman |
Now Ear This Apparently, in Baltimore, when you commit a balk that invites an opposing run on the house, at a time when you're already down 2-0 against a bristling opposing pitcher, you shake it off by sticking the next pitch in the hitter's ear. |
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
September 30, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
George Shuba, RIP: Making History Serenely Shuba died as the last man standing who'd played on both the 1946 Royals and the 1955 Dodgers. He also kept only one visible baseball memento in his home, a framed copy of his home plate handshake with Jackie Robinson. |
Sports Central
October 30, 2015
Louie Centanni |
Why the Royals Wanted the Mets, And Why It's Working Two games into the 2015 World Series, a lot of fans are scratching their heads asking the same question: "Are the Royals really this much better than the Mets?" |
Sports Central
September 20, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
Charm City Season A group of baseball teams with various levels of expectation and familiarity by the casual fan have some to the fore, such as the A's, Nationals, Reds, and Orioles. |
Sports Illustrated
October 24, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Closers and Cooperstown Have you been wondering about managerial vacancies around baseball, what's going to happen to the Braves or how the heck a relief pitcher is supposed to get into the Hall? So have your fellow readers... |
Sports Central
September 19, 2006
Zach Jones |
Orioles Thinking Big, Spending Small If the Orioles aren't going to spend like the big boys, they need to start thinking like the little kids and resist the temptation to grab the next aging former star that hits the market. |
Sports Central
June 24, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
All-Star Vote Broken? Here's a Repair My American League ballot went as follows, and these players remained the WAR leaders at their positions as of Friday morning. |
Sports Central
July 18, 2013
Ross Lancaster |
The 10 Biggest Series For the Second Half As the baseball season moves to the second half, to the trade deadline, into pennant races and the cooler weather of September, there are series that carry added significance for playoff spots. |
Sports Central
April 12, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Hope (and Panic) Springs A look at the baseball teams a few weeks into the season. Who looks hopeful, who looks awful, and who may become the dark horse of the season. |
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 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. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Worst Referee Calls Part of the ref's job is to make accurate, real-time decisions. But no one's perfect, and every so often a wrong call will alter the game -- as it did in these ten examples. |
Sports Central
May 1, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
The Sounds of Silence in Camden Yards Because of Baltimore's riots this week, and after having postponed twice, the Orioles elected to play the White Sox without an audience. |
Sports Central
April 8, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year The most wonderful time of the year begins at a point in early April and endures for slightly more than half a calendar year. |
Sports Illustrated
March 13, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Spring Loaded While the spotlight has been on Gary Sheffield, three lesser-known players have leaped to prominence in spring training, aided by circumstance as much as by stellar play... |
