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Each AL Playoff Team’s Biggest Strength — And Weakness
The MLB playoffs are finally upon us, and to help set the scene, we’re previewing the division-series field — sorry, Twins — for each league. For every team, we picked out their most important...
View ArticleYankees vs. Red Sox Is Going To Be Epic This Season
The first Yankees-Red Sox matchup of 2018 is happening tonight, and ordinarily, we’d be full of anticipation over one of the best seasons in memory for the historic rivalry. And yet, between injuries...
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Dave Dombrowski Fixed The Red Sox — But He Didn’t Do It Alone
Just three years ago, the Boston Red Sox were in shambles. A disappointing 78-win season — their second losing campaign in a row — landed the Sox in last place for the third time in four years. What...
View ArticleOld-School Stats Or Fancy-Pants Analytics? The Red Sox Have An MVP Candidate...
Most years, the American League’s Most Valuable Player award is basically Mike Trout’s hardware to lose. In his five full MLB seasons,1 the Los Angeles Angels outfielder never finished lower than...
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We Break Down Each MLB Playoff Matchup (And Predict The World Series)
gfoster (Geoff Foster, sports editor): Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s postseason MLB chat. We are done with the one-game wild-card playoffs. We are done with the one-game playoffs to figure out who would...
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J.D. Martinez Is Always One Step Ahead
J.D. Martinez changed baseball hitting philosophy once. Maybe he’s playing a part in changing it again. Martinez was one of the original fly-ball revolutionaries. He was one of the first hitters to go...
View ArticleThis Might Be The Best Red Sox World Series Team Yet
Here they come again: For the fourth time since 2004, the Boston Red Sox will be the American League’s representative in the World Series. This time, it comes after beating the Houston Astros in an...
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How The Red Sox And Dodgers Made It To The World Series, In One Chart
It’s been almost seven months since the Major League Baseball season started, and here we are, finally ready to determine a champion. We’ve been tracking — and forecasting — each team’s chances all...
View ArticleThe 5 Players Who Could Determine The World Series
When you think of the World Series, you probably picture stars: Derek Jeter, Manny Ramirez, Randy Johnson and the like. But lesser-known players also play pivotal roles in late October: David Freese,...
View ArticleWelcome To The 2018 World Series, Where Even Sale-vs.-Kershaw Turns Into A...
BOSTON — Tuesday night was billed as one of the greatest pitching matchups in World Series history: Clayton Kershaw versus Chris Sale — two of the elite starters of their generation. On a cool night in...
View ArticleRyan Madson And The Dodgers Are Faltering When It Matters Most
BOSTON — For the second-straight chilly night in Fenway Park, Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Ryan Madson faced one of baseball’s great psychological performance tests. And for the second-straight night,...
View ArticleThe Red Sox Bucked Convention To Build A Champion
After Manny Machado waved at a Chris Sale slider for the final out of Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday — the final pitch of the 2018 baseball season — Boston Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez...
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The 2018 Red Sox Are Baseball’s Best Champions Since The 1998 Yankees
In the celebration Sunday after Boston pitcher Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado to end Game 5 of the World Series, clinching a title for the Red Sox, much was made about this being the best Boston...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Teams Of 2018 In (Almost) Any Sport
The 2018 calendar year has been pretty incredible for sports fans. We saw a Winter Olympics and a World Cup, with Norway setting a new record for medals in the former and France’s young stars bursting...
View ArticleThe Best Players And Biggest Upsets Of 2018 In (Almost) Any Sport
As 2018 draws to its conclusion, we wanted to look back at the year in sports — the best (and worst) teams, the results that surprised us most and the athletes who inspired us. On Friday, we covered...
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Everything Went Right For The 2018 Red Sox. Are The Champs Destined To Regress?
It’s hard to imagine things going more right for the Boston Red Sox than they did last season. Boston jumped out to a scorching 17-2 start, was 38 games over .500 by the All-Star break, posted the most...
View ArticleThe 2019 Favorites And Breakout Picks For The American League
Welcome to our two-part guide to the 2019 MLB season through the lens of our MLB prediction model. In each division, we’ll outline the key teams in the division race, discuss the incoming players who...
View ArticleUm, The Red Sox May Actually Be In Trouble
It’s a bad idea to read too much into any April baseball games, but this week’s two-game sweep at the hands of the archrival New York Yankees appears to have officially sent the Boston Red Sox into a...
View ArticleThe Red Sox Are (Probably) Going To Be OK
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