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Toronto Blue Jays Just Found Their Playoff Ace in Shane BieberShane Bieber made his Blue Jays debut after a blockbuster trade with Cleveland, striking out nine in six scoreless innings. Toronto might have found its ace for an MLB Playoff run....

50 things to be excited about 50 days before MLB Opening DayWe are 50 days away from the MLB’s opening day, so let’s take a look at 50 things of note for the 2024 season....

What do the Cleveland Guardians want to be?To hear Larry Dolan tell it, the Cleveland Guardians are the poster child for the unfairness in MLB. They can’t run with the big boys of the American League, even though there are no big market teams in the AL Central, at least when the Tigers suck eggs (and the White Sox will never act like they pl...

With offense winning titles in other sports, playoff baseball is still about pitching

The Dodgers, Braves, and Yankees combined to win 311 regular season games over the course of the regular season, but the playoffs have been a beautiful disaster so far. Mid-’90s alternative rock references notwithstanding, all three clubs received first-round byes, and only New York isn’t on the bri...

Should the Rays, Jays, and Mariners race to the bottom?

We knew the new baseball playoff system, with the addition of a third wildcard team, would create quirks. In a vacuum, it works because all division winners are considered equal. But in reality, where people play the games, they very much are not. Teams are hard to judge on just their record, becaus...

Did the Guardians win the Francisco Lindor trade?

Perhaps the biggest bane of modern baseball is most teams’ aversion to keeping the biggest stars in the game, or even having them in the first place. Only a few teams are willing to pay the best players what they’ve earned, and everyone else is looking for ways to move them along as soon as the play...

Did you notice these cool details from MLB Opening Day?

After an offseason filled with turmoil and uncertainty, Major League Baseball kicked off the 2022 season yesterday...with two postponements, one of them Red Sox at Yankees. Yeah, that wasn’t a great way to kick things off. Pushing back the start of your marquee series is never a good thing,especiall...

Deadspin’s 2022 MLB predictions: The good, the bad, the frustrating

You don’t need sportswriters to tell you that the Dodgers are going to be better than the Diamondbacks this year. You already know that. At the same time, it feels wrong to go into the baseball season without looking ahead at it, without trying to gaze into a crystal ball to make some kind of picks....