Sadaharu Oh

Check out this interesting article on Sadaharu Oh. Was he the all-time home run king of all baseball? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/racism-and-mlb-a-little-justice-for-sadaharu-oh_us_5a2bd585e4b0d7c3f2622307

Coming Back From An 0-2 Hole

While I am definitely not a fan of either the Yankees or the Red Sox, I do appreciate the beauty of coming back from an 0-2 deficit in a five game series. Here are the nine 0-2 comebacks in a five game postseason series, courtesy of sportsonearth.com (http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/257800128/down-0-2-best-of-five-comebacks):

By the way, the last one on this list is my least favorite of these moments. There is a reason Joey Bats is highly disliked in the sport...

A True MLB Father-Son Moment

Yesterday, Red Sox manager John Farrell watched his son, Luke, pitch a scoreless ninth against his team. Luke is a relief pitcher for the Reds, and the moment was not only emotionally charged, but also historic. This is the first time in MLB history that a pitcher has pitched against a team managed by his father. In baseball, it is still possible to see something you've never seen before in any given game. However, it is rare to witness a single instance that has never happened in the long history of the majors. Plus, you have to love father-son baseball stories!

Rougned Odor and the Meaningless 30 Homer Season

My favorite article of the day comes from the Dallas News. Rougned Odor of the Rangers is having a year that is truly remarkable, and I mean 'remarkable' in the negative sense. Odor has thirty home runs on the season, but only an OPS+ of 68, which means that he is offensively 32% below the league average player. This is the lowest OPS+ for a 30 home run hitter in MLB history, besting the previous mark of 86.3 by Tony Batista in 2004. His all-or-nothing swings are giving away too many at-bats and costing him team offensive production from their second basemen. Is his approach fixable? We'll see, but his poor offense is hurting a team still in Wild Card contention. 154 Ks and a .206 doesn't justify 30 homers and 74 RBI.