The Winning Run

30/04/2024

Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original. Rickey Henderson is more than blazing speed on the bases.

In the argument for who the greatest baseball player of all time is, there always seems to be one name missing. Rickey Henderson. The all-time leader in Stolen Bases and Runs scored, over 3,000 Hit…

25/04/2024

Do You Love Baseball? What are you willing to do for baseball?

How much do you love baseball? What are you willing to do to umpire the best game available? Seeing an umpire work a college game is the culmination of years of work. Studying, attending camps, wor…

22/04/2024

How?!

22/04/2024

19/04/2024

Predictions Sure To Go Wrong 10.0. Super late, but our predictions for 2024 that definitely won't come true.

The 2024 MLB season has begun. Little is certain in baseball, even a few weeks into the season. While we are super late getting our predictions posted this year, we nevertheless feel strongly that …

15/04/2024

United States of Baseball- Utah. The Beehive State has a small but growing baseball tradition.

Utah is pushing to someday have a Major League team. While they wait, the Beehive State continues to grow its baseball tradition. The United States of Baseball is important for baseball powerhouses…

28/03/2024

Happy Opening Day!!! Ted Griffey Day for those who celebrate.

06/03/2024

Missing #4- Kid Elberfeld. Not everyone is a Hall of Famer.

You can dedicate your life to baseball and have a dramatic impact on people and the game. However, this does not mean you are destined for Cooperstown. Norman Arthur Elberfeld grew up in Cincinnati…

27/02/2024

A Dozen. 12 years of writing about baseball.

A dozen years of baseball. The game has changed so much in just 12 years, yet it has also stayed the same. MLB has tinkered with some rules. Some have made the game better, some have made the game …

22/02/2024

Yet again we prove we know nothing about the future of baseball.

What a shock! Few foresaw the Rangers defeating the Diamondbacks in the 2023 World Series. We certainly did not. Despite trying to predict the outcome of the last nine MLB seasons, we continue to k…

13/02/2024

Reaching Your Goal. Keep working until you reach your goal.

Are you part of the nearly half of New Year’s Resolutioners that have given up? Or are you one of the less than 10% who will be successful? Life is hard, keep working towards your dreams. Ron Wrigh…

07/02/2024

Bucky Veil's career is a mix of fact and fiction.

Baseball is well covered in literature. The obsession with America’s Pastime has produced many great books. Bucky: A Story of Baseball in the Deadball Era by Fred Veil is no exception. The book is …

29/01/2024

Hall of Fame Class of 2024. Welcome to Cooperstown Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer, and Todd Helton.

The Hall of Fame Class of 2024 has been announced. Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer, and Todd Helton will be joining Jim Leyland in Cooperstown this Summer. Beltre and Mauer are first ballot Hall of Famers…

18/01/2024

The Winning Run 2024 Hall of Fame Ballot. Our votes for who should be enshrined in Cooperstown.

The beginning of the new year means it is time for the annual debate about who is and is not a Hall of Famer. Ultimately only the opinions of Hall of Fame voters matter. They decide who goes to Coo…

10/01/2024

Back To Work!!! MLB has changed the Pitch Clock again and not for the better.

If you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean. The last thing MLB wants is players, specifically pitchers, standing around doing nothing. Idle hands are the devil’s workshop after all. Certa…

02/01/2024

Happy New Year. '24 is going to be a great year. Just ask the greatest #24.

Happy New Year! 2024 will be a great year for baseball. From the Opening Series in Seoul to amateur baseball at every level, baseball is on the rise. The game is continuing to grow as evident in th…

15/12/2023

2024 Hall of Fame Ballot. Who is heading to Cooperstown?

The 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has 26 candidates. The ballot returns 14 candidates, while adding 12 first time candidates. Once the votes are tallied, any candidate receiving 75% or more of …

07/12/2023

Rookie of the Year. The Diamondbacks are the final team to win the Rookie of the Year.

Teams are successful when they develop talent, not simply purchase free agents. The George Steinbrenner Yankees were often accused of buying championships, but they did develop talent. Success is t…

30/11/2023

30/11/2023

Managerial Merry Go Round. 8 teams will have a new manager in 2024.

Every offseason is filled with the managerial merry go round. Teams look for new leadership in the dugout for one reason or another. This offseason is especially busy as eight teams will have someo…

24/11/2023

United States of Baseball- United States Virgin Islands. Baseball from paradise.

Everyone wants their own slice of paradise and the United States Virgin Islands is paradise. The U.S. Virgin Islands are only 133 square miles, roughly the size of Manhattan and Queens. While New Y…

17/11/2023

Missing #3- Lou Criger. Why did Cy Young's catcher make it on the Hall of Fame ballot?

Sometimes life is not what you know, but who you know. This may explain Lou Criger’s name on the 1936 Hall of Fame ballot. His numbers did not justify his appearing before the voters for Cooperstow…

27/10/2023

World Series of Chaos. Baseball at it's unpredictable best.

We have our World Series matchup, Texas Rangers against Arizona Diamondbacks. This is the first Fall Classic matchup between these two franchises. The Rangers are making their third trip to the Wor…

06/10/2023

Not Wasting Talent. The difference between Roald Acuna and Shohei Ohtani is all about their teams.

One of the worst things a team can do is waste the talents of their best player. When a generationally talented player wears your jersey, half the equation for team success is solved. Now just buil…

03/10/2023

Welcome to October. Who wins it all this year?

The Regular Season is over and the Postseason has arrived. The easy wins are in the past. October is only for teams that earned the right to play for a title. The Braves have been on a roll all se…

02/10/2023

End of the Road. The end has come for many baseball careers.

The end of the Regular Season brings an end to the careers of players and coaches. Every season fans say goodbye. Maybe it is a player on your favorite team just hanging on the Major League roster.…

27/09/2023

Sad Birds. It has been a tough season in St. Louis.

Baseball is a cruel sport. Regardless how hard you try, there are times when everything goes wrong. Sometimes the stars align to create magic and sometimes they create disaster. It is the latter in…

19/09/2023

United States of Baseball- Texas. The Lone Star State is a baseball powerhouse.

Don’t mess with Texas on the diamond. The Lone Star State has produced 1,143 Major League players. The greatest pitcher born in Texas is Greg Maddux. His 106.56 career WAR is the 6th highest for a …

06/09/2023

Missing #2- Johnny Kling. The second highest vote getter from the inaugural Hall of Fame ballot to never make it to Cooperstown.

These are the saddest of possible words: “Tinker to Evers to Chance.” Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, Tinker and Evers and Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Ma…

03/09/2023

A beautiful and productive night at the ballpark.