It took the Miami Marlins four games, but they finally hit a home run at home. Omar Infante did the honors and thanks to that HR, the Marlins finally got to unveil their new HR sculpture. Thanks to JCRMarlinsbeat, here is the sculpture in action. This is honestly the ugliest looking thing to grace a [...]
Last night in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Aaron Harang struckout nine consecutive San Diego Padres at one point. It was quite the performance considering Harang isn’t considered much of a strikeout pitcher. Harang’s strikeout streak was all-time worthy. The nine consecutive strikeouts were one short of the Major League record. Here are the [...]
Here is a live look in to tonight’s Miami Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies game courtesy of Fangraphs. Source: Fangraphs You can follow The Baseball Index on Twitter @ baseballindex
If I learned one thing in business over the past 15 years of my life, it’s don’t get involved in conversations you know nothing about and if you just so happen to get called into a meeting that covers a topic you know nothing about, do your best to do some research prior to said [...]
When the Cincinnati Reds signed Ryan Madson this offseason, they envisioned a scenario where one of their starting pitchers would go six innings and then Dusty Baker would hand the ball off to Aroldis Chapman for the seventh, Sean Marshall for the eighth, and Madson could close things down in the ninth. When Madson was [...]
Every year I take on 25 bets for the upcoming baseball season. The bets I take on are player prop bets such as over/under for batting average, hits, home runs, etc… I also take on bets for teams such as over/under for wins. In 2009, I went 64 percent on my bets. Good, but not [...]
