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Here are all the 40+ Home Run Seasons, by franchise, in MLB historyImmaculate Grid has been a hit with baseball stat geeks since its launch in April. While the stats puzzle has since expanded to basketball, football, and hockey, it’s still baseball that makes the game what it is. So if you need help filling out your daily grid, give these stats a look....

Texas Rangers don’t need Jacob deGrom to be one of MLB's best teamsThe weirdest part of the news of Jacob deGrom’s impending season-ending Tommy John surgery, which in all likelihood could keep him out of the Texas Rangers’ rotation until the beginning of the 2025 season, is that the first-place team in the American League West doesn’t need him. Is deGrom a massive...

2023 Baseball Hall of Fame voting results falloutUnlike most sports’ Hall of Fame votes nowadays, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting process has been the subject of much analysis, scrutiny, and often ridicule in recent years. There isn’t another major sport with so much elitism that all-time great players aren’t offered immortality via ...

Consolation prize for Marcus Semien's non-MVP season: Rare iron man feat

There’s two weeks left in the major league season, and we all know the big dramatic storylines unfolding. The American League wild card race changes daily, Atlanta and San Francisco are trying to hang on to win division titles, and the home run race between Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Salvador Perez, and...

It would be fun if baseball still had waiver deals

Quietly, one of the more intriguing times of the baseball season had typically been waiver trades around this time of year. ...

Olympic baseball won’t feature best vs. best and that’s a shame

It’s exciting that baseball is back in the Olympics for Tokyo after having been out of the program in 2012 and 2016. It’s also going to be a weird mix of intriguing and disappointing to watch it all unfold, because while there are going to be familiar faces, the Olympics happening simultaneously wit...

Nobody wants Albert Pujols — nor should they (sadly)

The White Sox will not be adding Albert Pujols to their lineup, Chicago manager Tony La Russa said on Friday....

What’s that Odor? Rougned’s new Mr. Clean look throws off MLB fans

Rougned Odor is now a New York Yankee, and therefore has to abide by their idiotic no-beard policy, which makes absolutely zero sense and is easily the most antiquated, useless policy in all of professional sports....