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2010 NL Manager of the Year: B/R Columnists Pick San Diego Padres’ Bud Black

Next week, the Baseball Writers Association of America will begin to unveil its picks for Major League Baseball's most important end-of-season awards: Rookies of the Year, Managers of the Year, Cy Youngs and Most Valuable Players.But Bleacher Report's featured columnists ... (Continue reading)

2010 NL Rookie of the Year: B/R Columnists Pick Buster Posey Over Jason Heyward

The 2010 season is likely to go down as the "Year of the Pitcher," but it could also be adequately labeled the "Year of the Rookie."Two rookies, Buster Posey and Madison Bumgarner, led the San Francisco Giants to an unlikely ... (Continue reading)

MLB Awards 2010: NL Relief Man of the Year Is San Francisco Giants’ Brian Wilson

Every year, managers, coaches and writers from around Major League Baseball award honors and trophies to the players—and every year, they screw up.So Bleacher Report's featured columnists decided to do it ourselves. Instead of just complaining about the awards as ... (Continue reading)

MLB Playoff Predictions: Power Ranking The Teams In The Stats That Really Matter

In Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong, Nate Silver and Dayn Perry tackled a question that had mystified fans and analysts for more than a century: What are the most important qualities for ... (Continue reading)

2010 MLB Playoffs: Why San Francisco Giants’ Win Over Padres Is Bad for Baseball

I have nothing against the San Francisco Giants—in fact, I don’t particularly care about them one way or the other. I’m sure they’re nice people, and they’re certainly a very good baseball team. But, while San Francisco’s successes and failures ... (Continue reading)

B/R’s Mock NL MVP Vote: Is Adrian Gonzalez Better Than Albert Pujols?

Yesterday, Bleacher Report's Featured Columnists celebrated the turn to July—a symbolic midpoint of the MLB season—with the results of a mock AL MVP vote. Today we take a look at the most valuable players in the National League. If you thought ... (Continue reading)

Catching the Worm: Baseball’s Most Surprising Fast-Starting Teams

In 1997, the movie Gattaca taught us that "there is no gene for the human spirit." At the start of every MLB season, we learn that there isn't a statistic for it, either. As per usual, countless so-called experts—myself included—spent the ... (Continue reading)

Clubhouse Cancer: The Symbolism Of Dallas Braden’s Perfect Game (Satire)

The “Susan G. Komen for the Cure” breast cancer awareness organization condemned Oakland Athletics pitcher Dallas Braden for his perfect game in a press release issued Sunday night. Continuing a tradition begun last year, Major League Baseball celebrated Mother’s Day by ... (Continue reading)

Guts Enough Not To Fight Back: The Enduring Legacy of Jackie Robinson

On April 14, 1947, Major League Baseball was a whites-only sport. Not since the expulsion of black players in 1888 had a non-Caucasian man swung a bat or thrown a pitch in the Big Show. That changed on April 15, 1947, ... (Continue reading)

Still Not Satisfied, Padres Acquire Red Sox’ Green Monster (Satire)

At a press conference today, new San Diego Padres GM Jed Hoyer announced that the team has agreed to purchase Fenway Park’s legendary “Green Monster” from the Boston Red Sox. This news comes in the wake of Hoyer—the Red Sox’ Assistant ... (Continue reading)