By The Numbers

The Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers are tied at two games a piece. There are a lot of obvious things that anyone who has been watching the series will have noticed: Lebron and Wade did crazy things in Game 4, both teams’ defenses have put on the...

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The balk is one of the most confusing, poorly understood, and obscure aspects in baseball.

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Major League Baseball is trying to return the importance of winning the division, but by creating a two-team cushion, not only has the division race been stripped of its excitement, but winning the wild card race no longer holds any importance.

Is the contract year phenomenon really was what it claims to be, and not a collection of outliers that linked together to make a good story?

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Time for another installment of the  By The Numbers series? Indiana has a dirty dozen games left. It’s April, and the playoff race is in full swing, so let’s look at the big numbers. 33-21 After the win in Washington, Chris Denari mentio...

Daisuke “Dice-K” Matsuzaka achieved varied success in his five years with the Boston Red Sox, but was the $51,111,111.11 paid for the rights to negotiate with the Japanese star worth the money?

Throughout this offseason, baseball has seen some dramatic moves and major free agents signing large contracts with new teams, such as Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder. And that begs the question: Is Pujols really worth all the money he got from the...