“The one sure thing about baseball is – you never know.” Yogi Berra? No. Casey Stengel? No. Try, Joaquin Andujar, former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher. As baseball analysts perform their post-season predictions in dogmatic fashion, history tells us...
Baseball Prospectus’ “Playoff Odds Report” suggests there are only a handful of teams that could possibly win the World Series. According to the report, the New York Mets have a 38.7% chance of making the post season, a 32.5% of making it to the...
Despite leading the American League Eastern division by 14 ½ games as late as mid-August, the summer of 1978 may go down in history as one of the most miserable in Boston Red Sox history. Over the final six weeks of the regular season, the second...