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share-square-368642 Earlier this week, MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo rolled out their list of the Top 100 prospects for the 2021 Draft, offering fans a comprehensive look at the best amateur players in the country. Beyond those rankings, they also applied their expertise in putting together a mock draft for the Top 10 slots in 2021 and answered fans’ questions during a recent Twitter Q&A. As part of MLB Pipeline’s ongoing Draft coverage, we thought that it would be interesti...

share-square-367322 Earlier this week, MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo rolled out their list of the Top 100 prospects for the 2021 Draft, offering fans a comprehensive look at the best amateur players in the country. Beyond those rankings, they also applied their expertise in putting together a mock draft for the Top 10 slots in 2021 and answered fans’ questions during a recent Twitter Q&A. As part of MLB Pipeline’s ongoing Draft coverage, we thought that it would be interesti...

share-square-366902 Earlier this week, MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo rolled out their list of the Top 100 prospects for the 2021 Draft, offering fans a comprehensive look at the best amateur players in the country. Beyond those rankings, they also applied their expertise in putting together a mock draft for the Top 10 slots in 2021 and answered fans’ questions during a recent Twitter Q&A. As part of MLB Pipeline’s ongoing Draft coverage, we thought that it would be interesti...

share-square-366039 Earlier this week, MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo rolled out their list of the Top 100 prospects for the 2021 Draft, offering fans a comprehensive look at the best amateur players in the country. Beyond those rankings, they also applied their expertise in putting together a mock draft for the Top 10 slots in 2021 and answered fans’ questions during a recent Twitter Q&A. As part of MLB Pipeline’s ongoing Draft coverage, we thought that it would be interesti...

Mickey Mantle’s Pyrrhic career: Winning the battle but losing the WAR Share this story JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score system), as explained by Baseball Reference, is a career-rating metric derived from, “…their career WAR averaged with their 7-year peak WAR.” This metric is particularly useful for evaluating Hall of Fame candidates from a historical perspective by enabling the game’s brightest stars to rise above the more ubiquitous, steady workmen. While WAR does an excellent job of telling y...

Darren Holmes Courtesy of Baseball Reference: “Colorado Rockies Yearly Pitching Staff - Most Common Pitchers” *The Baseball Reference list doesn’t include closers who filled in for a shorter period of time (i.e. ), so technically the Rockies have had more than 16 closers in team history. A consistent bullpen can be hard to come by when reliever performance can face serious year-to-year volatility. A hitter-friendly Coors Field can magnify those effects, particularly in tight sav...

Orestes Armas Minoso, known to all as "Minnie," truly was ageless in the minds of Bill Veeck and his son Mike, and we have proof. When Minnie grounded out for Mike Veecks Saints on June 30, 1993, at Midway Stadium to become the first professional ballplayer to appear in six decades, he was advertised as 70. When Minnie drew a walk for Mikes Saints on July 16, 2003, still at Midway, to raise that record to seven decades, he was 77, and thus had aged seven years in a decade. According to Baseba...

December 10, 2020 Yesterday, the Seattle Mariners signed Chris Flexen to a two-year deal. The 26-year-old will earn $4.75 million in guaranteed money, with an option to make more if he hits certain innings thresholds. Per MLB Trade Rumors, the Mariners attached “a $4MM club option and, if Flexen throws 150 innings in 2022 or 300 frames from 2021-22, an $8MM vesting option.” The contract itself is a bit of a Dipoto special, as the Mariners used a similar structure when they extended Wade LeB...

Gambling on a recent Cy Young winner might be the Yankees best (non-reunion) free agent move By BrahNick on Dec 10, 2020, 2:59pm EST 51 Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Even in a market curtailed by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the New York Yankees have needs to fill if they expect to compete for a playoff spot in 2021. The biggest need for the Bronx Bombers, as it has been for several seasons now, is in their starting rotation. Gerrit Cole is the only dependable starting pi...

Pudge rodriguez is the first time ballot entry along with johnny bench. there was a surge in support for people who were connected in some way to the steroids era. barry bands and roger clemens. those guys had been in the 40s. this time around in the 50s. they are on the rise. sooner or later, here is betting that bonds and clemens will get in. >> here is the number of times berman can get the baseball reference in. and some questions for donald trumps nominees causing concerns in washington. ...