Posts From Carter LaCorte
Exploring MLB’s Epic Playoff Race: 2.5 Weeks To Go
With how fragile teams can be in September, the playoff race changes every day. Every single team gets involved, even the bad ones. The message for the contenders is simple: beat up on the bad teams. Look at the AL East, where the Orioles will decide who makes it and who does not.
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Sunday Shenanigans 23: You Mean They Aren’t Good?
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.
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Exploring MLB’s Epic Playoff Race: 4 Weeks To Go
We are in the home stretch of the home stretch. While many divisions have been sorted out, the Wild Cards have not been.
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Sunday Shenanigans 22: You Missed the Easiest Tag Possible!
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.
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Colorado Rockies All-Time 26-Man Roster
Throughout their history, the Rockies have always had a stigma. Great hitters, terrible pitchers. Everyone is a product of the altitude of Coors Field. Looking at their all-time team, yeah, the pitchers may not be strong.
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Sunday Shenanigans 21: The Week of the Mets
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.
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Appreciating the Pirates: A Deep-Dive Into Their Few Bright Spots
Buckle up Pittsburgh Pirates fans, we will be talking about your team, but in a good way. Last time on the deep-dive series, your former closer Richard Rodriguez was exposed for the weird pitcher that he is.
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Sunday Shenanigans 20: Three Dumb-But-Possible Ways for the MLB Standings to End Up
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.
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Report: Hurricanes Offer Sheet Kotkaniemi, Troll Canadiens
The Carolina Hurricanes have extended an offer sheet to the Montreal Canadiens’ Jesperi Kotkaniemi, but that is hardly the full story. Montreal has one week to decide whether or not to match the deal or else they will lose Kotkaniemi.
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Looking Back at the 2016 MLB Trade Deadline
The 2021 MLB Trade Deadline just passed with a ton of deals being made in one of the most exciting years in recent memory. Of course, the thing on most people’s minds was winners and losers.
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