Gold Glove winners are voted on by coaches and managers, who are forbidden from voting for their own players. That’s 75 percent of the decision with the remaining 25 percent being statistical (provided by SABR).
On Thursday Major League Baseball announced the finalists for the 2023 Silver Slugger awards. The Silver Slugger is awarded to the player voted the top hitter at each position in each league. In the first round, three finalists are announced at each position.
Is it too early to look ahead at the World Series odds for the 2024 season of Major League baseball?
We think not!
On the first day of the MLB offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers and heavy hitter Max Muncy agreed to a two-year contract extension worth $24 million,
At the beginning of this month of October we did a test to see how well the computer ran this season’s MLB Playoffs. Well to come to a surprise the computer was completely wrong and the predictions are way off. We will share with you what was right and what was wrong with the playoffs.
We have the final two teams to battle for the 2023 MLB World Series that starts Friday in Texas. The teams we are looking at are going to be the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers.
Coming into this year’s NLCS, I thought the Phillies/Diamondbacks series was a slam dunk. Phillies defeated the Atlanta Braves for the second consecutive year, and it almost felt like déjà vu as the Phillies would be taking on an inexperienced playoff team that had not been to this point together.
The Diamondbacks clinched their spot in the World Series with a 4-2 win over the Phillies in the deciding Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. Philly went up 2-0 at home before losing the next two in Arizona.
In 2011, the Texas Rangers watched as the St. Louis Cardinals celebrated an impressive comeback to win Game Six of the World Series and then celebrated winning their 11th World Series title in front of their hometown crowd. The Rangers watched as their hopes of winning the pennant were quickly dissipated. In 2011, the Rangers watched as their trip to the World Series turned out to be a bust for them.