Author: Jasper Abrahams

Reading Time: 3 minutesLast Tuesday, the Major League Baseball fanbase was presented with the fantastic news of the Arizona Plan. Long story short, this plan will have players playing in (fan-less) stadiums in May in Arizona (thus, the name, the “Arizona Plan”). To further add to the fantastic news of the baseball season potentially returning, Major League Baseball has realigned the divisions for this truncated season.  These altered divisions are based on the distance of teams to each other which saving them travel time. If there is baseball in 2020, fans won’t see the “American League” or “National League”,...

Reading Time: < 1 minutesThis morning, the baseball world was given a glimpse of hope with ESPN’s Jeff Passan’s huge tweet: NEWS: Major League Baseball and the MLBPA are focusing on a plan backed by federal health officials that could have players in training camps by May and games soon thereafter. Details at ESPN on how MLB may return — and the difficulty in doing so: https://t.co/zDoNa3k4pm — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 7, 2020 This plan has Major League Baseball concluding their spring training games and beginning regular season play in a remote location of Pheonix, Arizona. The plan,...

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently, the MLB Network decided to re-air Team USA’s playoff games in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. This run for Team USA was none other than impressive. The team headlined by All-Stars such as Christian Yelich, Giancarlo Stanton, Andrew McCutchen, Nolan Arenado, Buster Posey and more, led the team to a World Baseball Classic Championship against Team Puerto Rico in Dodger Stadium. With this begin said, the question I bring up is who will be on the 2021 Team USA roster? Let’s take a dive into the projected defense and pitching staff for Team USA. Catcher...

Reading Time: 2 minutesAll baseball fans have heard of the new “Three Batter Minimum” rule, but most do not understand how it will truly impact the game. What is the ‘Three Batter Minimum’ rule, and how does it affect managers and pitchers? The ‘Three Batter Minimum’ rule was directly targeted to increase the pace of play. Increasingly in today’s fast paced world, slow games have become a turn off to fans. The rule states, “pitchers have to face a minimum of three batters before they are allowed to exit the game”. In recent years, from the fan’s perspective, we...

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs the 2020 MLB season is rapidly approaching, there are many questions as to how the regular season will shape up. Will the reigning champion Washington Nationals repeat in 2020? Will Angels slugger Mike Trout win his 4th MVP in seven years? With all the high expectations on Gerrit Cole, will he win his first CY Young? Will Mets ace Jacob deGrom win this third consecutive CY Young? Will Cody Bellinger repeat his historic MVP season? All these questions (and more) will be answered in the article below, so with that, here are my 2020 MLB...