matt-holliday - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Here are all the 200+ hit seasons, by franchise, in MLB historyImmaculate Grid has been a hit with baseball stat geeks since its launch in April. While the stats puzzle has since expanded to basketball, football, and hockey, it’s still baseball that makes the game what it is. So if you need help filling out your daily grid, give these stats a look....

New Yankee Carlos Rodón thinks the Bronx faithful are more passionate than SF Giants fansThe New York Yankees head into 2023 as favorites to win the AL East and the second-biggest favorites to win the World Series. Yes, expectations are high for this team, but that’s nothing new. When a brand as iconic as the Yankees fails to meet its lofty season goals, fans get mad. Despite consistent...

2023 Baseball Hall of Fame voting results falloutUnlike most sports’ Hall of Fame votes nowadays, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame voting process has been the subject of much analysis, scrutiny, and often ridicule in recent years. There isn’t another major sport with so much elitism that all-time great players aren’t offered immortality via ...

Can Yanks keep Judge with historic deal?

The New York Yankees have offered star slugger Aaron Judge an eight-year deal, worth roughly $300 million, according to ESPN insider Jeff Passan....

Max Scherzer trade to Dodgers is one of the greatest deadline deals of all time

Where does Max Scherzer to the Dodgers rank among MLB’s best deadline deals?...

Hey Cardinals fans, would you still rather have Arenado, or Arozarena and Garcia?

First off, I want everyone to know that I know that neither Randy Arozarena nor Adolis Garcia were pieces in St. Louis’s trade for the former Rockies’ third baseman. This is merely a hypothetical question. Both of the young up-and-comers started their professional baseball careers within the St. Lou...

There Is No Making Sense Of Matt Holliday's Bizarre Base Running Blunder

You know when you zone out at a stoplight, and then you suddenly sense traffic moving around you, and so you accelerate a little too quickly, but it turns out you don’t have a green light, it’s the turn lane next to you that has a green arrow, and so you have to stomp the brakes like a shithead, but...

Matt Holliday Leaves Game After Taking A Pitch Right In The Nose

During a sixth-inning rally against the San Diego, Matt Holliday caught a 95 MPH fastball from Andrew Cashner right in the nose. He immediately fell to the ground, and Mike Matheny leapt from the dugout. As you can see in the slow motion shot here, his nose looks worryingly elastic when it gets plow...