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The Baseball Hall of Fame has lost much of its relevance, but Page 2s Bill Simmons has a plan to fix it.

10:56 pm: Its a four-year, $78MM guarantee, Heyman reports. 10:49 pm: The Mets are in agreement with free agent center fielder Starling …

The Mets have capped off one of the single busiest days weve seen from a team in recent memory by …

After the tumultuous year of 2020, 2021 had its fair share of challenges.

The 2021 champions have just been crowned -- but were already thinking ahead to next year.

You may have read or heard that during the Dodgers' 16-inning, 5-3 win at San Diego on Wednesday, their pitchers faced 38 consecutive batters without allowing a hit. After Adam Frazier of the...

Unlikely Cubs with 8 RBI in a game, Part 4 By JohnW53 on Jun 9, 2021, 5:55am CDT + This is the fourth and last in a series of posts about the 4 lesser known of the 8 Cubs who have driven in 8 runs in a single game. The team record is 9, set by Heinie Zimmerman, in 1911, and tied by Sammy Sosa, in 2002. The more familiar names with 8 RBI are Rogers Hornsby, in 1931; Babe Herman, in 1933; Ron Santo, in 1970; and Dave Kingman, in 1978. Previous posts in this series described the big da...

The Cubs have retired 5 uniform numbers, honoring 6 players: 10: Ron Santo 14: Ernie Banks 23: Ryne Sandberg 26: Billy Williams 31: Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux You probably knew those....

Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT + 431 times, an average of more than 3 per season. They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in 110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014. In 1992, a Cub led in 16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux. In 1938, they led in 18, with Bill Lee on top in 14. And in ...

Longest saves by Cubs pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 18, 2021, 7:04am CDT + On April 8, Craig Kimbrel recorded his 350th career save -- his first that required 5 outs. Since then, when the Cubs have had a lead after 6 innings, several fans have half-jokingly suggested Kimbrel be brought in for a 3-inning save. ... 2,901 saves. (Saves became an official statistic only in 1969, but the rules for awarding a save were applied retroactively to earlier seasons.) 354 different pitchers are cre...