We’re currently about a month into the 2018 Major League Baseball season, and while there is obviously a long way to go, it is not terribly difficult to imagine which teams might be contenders into the summer and which ones won’t.
No area of the game has undergone a more dramatic overhaul in recent years than the role of the reliever. Long gone are the days of burnt-out starters hidden in the bullpen as a walking path to the closer.
There is only one question to ask when discussing the Baltimore Orioles in 2017: what the hell happened here? Just a few months ago, the O’s looked as if their breakout of 2016 had just been the start of something much bigger.
A Major League switch hitter has hit at least 35 home runs on 35 occasions in MLB history. How many of the switch hitters to reach that milestone can you name in five minutes?