Nowadays, strategy cards are commonplace for every player on a field in Major League Baseball. Fielders have them to show where they must shift for specific players. However, no players have more important cards than the pitchers and catchers, which show their set of signs, as well as how to pitch to batters.
The Chicago Cubs have had a very painful season. On Thursday against the Philadelphia Phillies, the Cubs somehow found a way to hit rock bottom.
New York Yankees baseball has not been at its best in the last week. They lost a series to the last-place Orioles, then had a chance to put away the Blue Jays’ season by winning a four-game set against them in New York.
We recently saw the week of the Arizona Diamondbacks play out. It was not that special of a week, just a really bad team winning against some good teams. The New York Mets must have seen the week of Arizona and thought, “we can do better.” And boy, did they.
We are reaching the home stretch of the 2021 MLB regular season. September is coming in the next few days. From there it is just thirty days and a series in October until the postseason gets underway. That is still a good amount of time for teams to make a series playoff push.
Things have felt better this week for the Diamondbacks. It doesn’t make up for everything that has come before it but there is at least progress.
If you hadn’t heard, Major League Baseball decided to get fun for once. This Thursday, the White Sox and Yankees played a thriller in Dyersville, IA, right next to the set of baseball classic Field of Dreams. What other movie adaptations could baseball (or sports in general) do?
There were some great moments this past week, but the choice for this Sunday Shenanigans goes to a moment that should have been serious.
Thanks to the all-star break, this week also has a broader Shenanigans window. Last Friday and Saturday are also included in the mix. So, we get a nice range of potential bloopers. And boy, did we get a blooper this week.
Pitchers raking and batters pitching has been a weird theme this year. We expected Ohtani to hit well. Others? Not so much. For all the weirdness that has happened this season, this week may take the cake.
The beauty of pointing out a moment in a baseball game is that it can happen in a lot of different parts. In a standard game, there are at least 17 half-innings. Thousands of pitches are thrown and for this week, the one in question is the very first for one team.
The foreign substance problem in baseball has risen over the past few seasons, reaching a breaking point this season. The domination of pitchers, rise in spin rates, and new revelations about spider tack forced the decision into Major League Baseball’s hands. As they so often have in the Rob Manfred era, they managed to make players angry.
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