MLB Rivalries: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs
Baseball has seen so much action over the years, and alongside hockey, football, and basketball, it is one of the most loved sports in the United States. Just like people bet their hard earned money on the Super Bowl, they spend their hard earned money betting on the World Series odds. But, what makes the […]
Chicago Cubs Shopping for trade deals for Happ, Contreras
Professional sports are a business and in business deals have to be made to better the organization. In the case of the Chicago Cubs, outfielder Ian Happ and fan-favorite catcher Willson Contreras are purportedly on the MLB trade market and with an August 2nd deadline rapidly approaching, both players may have seen their last days […]
Willson and William Contreras: A tale of Two Baseball Brothers
Major League Baseball has been interwoven into the DNA of American culture for well over the past hundred years. While being seen as our national “pastime,” the game of baseball provides us with uplifting stories that are a breath of fresh air in our current divisive society. This past weekend, a special treat unfolded at […]
Great tips for betting on baseball
Baseball is a sport enjoyed by tens of millions of fans globally. It’s also one of the world’s oldest sports, with the Major League Baseball (MLB) association one of the first sporting organizations in the world. With so many fans, there’s a lot of interest in betting on baseball and the MLB in particular. So, […]
Chicago Cubs Rebuild: A Long Way to Go
Here we are, smack-dab in the middle of June and with the MLB season already two months old, for many teams it’s time to hit the panic button already. I can think of a handful of teams who are on the cusp of this season slipping away and none are more prominent in my mind […]
Matt Swarmer: From the Rec Leagues to Wrigley Field
As baseball fans, we love cheering for the underdogs, whether it’s the teams or the players who realize their unlikely dreams to make it someday to the Show. On this past Memorial Day, the Chicago Cubs brought up Matt Swarmer to realize another one of those unlikely Cinderella baseball story lines. If you told anyone […]
Christopher Morel: The Cubs True Utility Player
As April moves into May and Memorial Day weekend looms in just a few days, MLB teams are settling down into the grind of the 2022 baseball season. For the Chicago Cubs, the daily ups and downs (literally and figuratively) have given way to a new rookie sensation who’s a breath of true fresh air: […]
Cubs win historic football game at Wrigley
Well, no, the Cubs didn’t actually win a football game this past Saturday at home versus the Pittsburgh Pirates but when you see a baseball box score of 21-0, it looks like the Bears won a game and not the Northsiders. As the sun came out on a beautiful Saturday spring day and warmed up […]
Wrigley Field Faithful warm up to Stroman in 2022 Debut
If new Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman ever studied anything about marketing while in college at Duke, he showed that he learned well by marketing himself as the newest addition to the Cubbies’ starting rotation on Sunday. Despite the tough 5-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, the Stroman trade last December was a good move for […]
NL Central Predictions for 2022
Well, it’s that time of year again when hope springs eternal as Major League Baseball opens up with another season of our national pastime. If you took a long nap and woke up suddenly this weekend and watched a National League game, don’t panic, you’re not on a strange island where baseball rules have been […]
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, Should He Be Replaced & By Whom?
Back on January 25th 2015, Rob Manfred became just the 10th Commissioner of Baseball after Bud Selig held the office since 1998 (although he was acting Commissioner since 9/7/1992). Manfred earned his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1980 & his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1983. Manfred 1st began working for […]
MLB Veteran Todd Walker Inducted Into Northwest Louisiana Walk of Stars
After a saddening 2020, 2021 seemed like a great year to be a baseball fan! Significant events have occurred in the American baseball fraternity in the last few months. The 2021 MLB season got off to a great start with the D’backs reclaiming their game, rookie Tyler Gilbert’s record no-hitter, the Boston Red Sox stepping […]
What Surprises Will MLB Trade Deadline Bring
The trade deadline for Major League Baseball is 4 p.m. ET on Friday, July 30. Unlike in typical years, the league has advanced the deadline to avoid day games. If any teams miss out on registering a new player by then, they will have to wait for some big deals after the season. In this […]
A Look at the NL Central and Pennant Probabilities
The NL Central the most up-for-grabs divisions in baseball in 2020. Both the NL East and NL Central are divisions that only have one team that is essentially considered out of the race from the get-go. In the NL East, that team is the Miami Marlins. In the NL Central, that team is the Pittsburgh […]
2018 League Division Series
As we inch towards the 2018 Fall Classic, we have already experienced historic events! Before we could even get to the Wild Card games, the National League gave us something to talk about … not one, but two teams tied for first place in the Central and West divisions causing a game 163 for all […]
All The Time in The World: Series Games Averaging Over 3.5 Hours!
Should you happen to find yourself off in dreamland during one of this year’s World Series games and wake up to find the game hasn’t even reached the seventh-inning stretch, don’t get too worried – you’re not living an episode of the Twilight Zone. You’re just living in the world of baseball as it is […]
Baseball Players who have Disappointed Us in 2017
By Adam Eyal The 2017 Major League Baseball season has only just finished, but some players should have given up a long time ago. Every year scouts and experts pick out the hottest prospects to watch out for over the coming months. These players are meant to deliver some of the best baseball in the […]
Former New York Mets players representing most projected 2017 postseason teams
To say the 2017 season has been a disappointment for the New York Mets baseball team, its players and coaching staff, its fans, and the media is an understatement. Past season success and expectations had the ball club competing with the likes of the Washington Nationals, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers for supremacy in […]
World Series Odds as we enter September
It just so happens, every year I am asked at about this time in the season who I think will make the playoffs and what are the odds of those teams making it to the World Series. So without further ado, here are my predictions entering September … The American League In the American League […]
The top 3 MLB Championship picks for 09/02/17
As the most part of the tournament is over, there are still quite some matches left for the baseball lovers which cannot be missed. with a lot of great matches in the ongoing week, another Sunday is coming where you can actually witness some of the greatest matches of this tournament. More than anything, you […]
Book Review: Whatever Happened to “Super Joe”?
Prior to the mid-90s there was no fan base more used to losing than those who rooted for the Cleveland Indians. That being said, there were still many who cared deeply about the team and its players throughout their years in the cellar. While these players never brought home a pennant, or even a division […]
Book Review: The Entitled by Frank Deford
Since baseball is so romantic, many have tried their hand at writing a novel on the subject. Perhaps Bernard Mulamud’s classic work The Natural, since turned into a movie, is the best known of baseball novels. However, after reading Frank Deford’s work The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball, this reviewer has a new favorite. […]
Book Review on Handsome Ranson Jackson: Accidental Big Leaguer
Ransom Jackson isn’t the household name it once was, but back in the 1940s and 50s, Jackson was well known to those who followed baseball. During that time, if you followed sports, you followed baseball, so that meant many knew the man who they called handsome. During his ten-year career in the Majors with the […]
The Chicago Cubs’ Historic Journey to the World Series
The number that continuously haunted the Cubs was 108. 108 years, 39,420 days, or nearly a million hours represents the last time the Cubs were victorious in a World Series. The team compiled record highs that would only be reached a couple of times in the past century. The team won over 100 games for […]
Does The Commissioner Of Baseball Understand Baseball?
It needs to be said and put out there: There is a chance that the Major League Baseball’s commissioner might not totally get the game which we call Baseball. Since January 2015, Rob Manfred has been manning the chief seat of Baseball. Manfred’s forerunner has been more or less a caretaker, conscientiously obeying team […]
Nine Innings/Questions on the Cardinals with C70 at the Bat
If you like what you read below, check out more from a good friend of BaseballReflections.com (yes, you’ve seen that name here before, just not for a while), Daniel Shoptaw at his site, C70 at the Bat! This is a continuation of our series of articles where I ask fellow bloggers from the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) […]
2015 MLB World Series: Mets vs. Royals
This is not the match-up I, nor MLB (I’m guessing), would have hoped for as having the Cubs in there would have been classic especially with all of the Back to the Future hype. Not to mention their historic drought since their last World Series! I for one am glad to NOT see the St. […]
Joe Maddon to win NL Manager of the year
The NL Manager of the Year Award is a tribute given yearly since 1983 to the best managers. A number of managers have won the award in a season when they guided their team outstandingly well to more wins. In this year, managers such as Joe Maddon of the Cubs, Terry Collins of the Mets, […]
Handicapping the NL Central: Playoff Odds and Perspective For Every Team in 2015’s Toughest Division
There are plenty of great division races going on in baseball right now, but none of them are quite as exciting as the ongoing contest in the National League Central. Baseball’s toughest division includes the best team in baseball (the St. Louis Cardinals, 76-43, .639 win percentage) and the third-best team in baseball (the Pittsburgh […]
The Top 10 World Series Contenders
The MLB season is a long, sometimes-slow journey. Often by the time we’re approaching the postseason, it’s almost strange to recall the beginning of the season. Similarly, preseason predictions and projections can often be almost comical by the time teams are 100-plus games in and trades, call-ups, and injuries have impacted the picture. Heading into […]
