Tag: Baseball Business
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Why the Blue Jays Might’ve Just Made the Signing of the Winter On Just a $10M salary
180.2 innings.1.89 ERA.252 strikeouts.41 walks.128 hits.17 wins.1 loss. Reigning Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) MVP Cody Ponce just turned those numbers into 3 years and $30M with the Toronto Blue Jays. It’s the largest contract for a pitcher returning from Korea, doubling the previous $15M record held by Erick Fedde. Fresh off a World Series appearance…
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Explaining why the Mets signed ex-Yankees closer Devin Williams.
The Mets have signed a closer. No, his name is not Edwin Díaz. It’s Devin Williams. The former Brewer and Yankee has signed a contract with the New York Mets, giving the team some stability in their rocky bullpen that is currently in the process of potentially losing its crown jewel in Díaz. David Stearns,…
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Orioles sign closer Ryan Helsley: Why This Agreement Happened
Perhaps the biggest contract for a pitcher was given out by the Toronto Blue Jays to starter Dylan Cease. Although this contract seems insignificant in relation to Cease’s, Ryan Helsley joining another AL East team could weigh similarly in terms of importance to the organization that signed him. The Baltimore Orioles feel they have a…
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Why the Toronto Blue Jays are committing to SP Dylan Cease
Toronto was rumored to be planning a splash this free agency and they may have proven that with the signing of the possible top starting pitcher on the market: 29-year-old right-hander Dylan Cease. Originally drafted in the 6th round in the 2014 draft by the Cubs, Cease bounced to the South Side Sox as a…
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Why the Mets and Rangers swapped Marcus Semien for Brandon Nimmo
This Sunday, Jeff Passan dropped the news of one of the most surprising trades in recent memory. The Texas Rangers sent 2x All-MLB First Team 2B Marcus Semien to the New York Mets in exchange for Mets-lifer OF Brandon Nimmo. Nimmo, 32, spent 10 seasons with the Mets after they drafted him in the 1st…
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The first Cy Young Award of many for Paul Skenes?
With baseball’s award season coming to a close, I wanted to do an in-depth dive into some of the award winners and what made them so special at their job. The first player we’ll look at is the NL Cy Young Award winner: Paul Skenes. For those who aren’t familiar, the Cy Young Award is…
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto lifts the Dodgers to the top once more.
No Sunday Sandbox this week due to a busy Sunday. Do not fret, I’m back with it next Sunday and more standalone pieces this week. Today, I want to share a quick piece about the World Series MVP. Dodgers take Game 7 in extras to break Canadians’ hearts If there was any doubt that this…
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A Review of Will Carroll’s The Science of Baseball: The Math, Technology, and Data Behind the Great American Pastime
Thought-provoking questions in baseball are hard to come by. As Carroll will tell you many times in this read, when it comes to change in baseball, the baseball minds will discuss the issues at hand over and over and over, and then a few more times before anything concrete occurs (or doesn’t). The Science of…
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Lessons in Sabermetrics: K% and BB%
Today I want to teach you all about two of the more simple, yet more telling statistics to reference when evaluating a pitcher. You can refer to these for any type of pitcher (starter, reliever, closer). K%, or strikeout rate, and BB%, or walk rate, are exactly what they sound like: the rate at which…
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An analysis of the season and where to start with the New York Mets post-2025
What a disaster this 2025 New York Mets team was. If you’re a fan, you probably wish they would’ve just ripped the Band-Aid off and not waited until the last day of the season to show exactly why they never had it in them. However, the world is not so kind, and the Mets were…
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