Divisional Series Preview – Arbitration Edition

by Todd Lemieux | Oct 11, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Given our smashing success in the Wild Card, we bring you the only guide you will need for the Divisional Series. Behold the dominance that is Swing Badder. Cleveland vs. New York Yankees The Guardians are fresh off an extra innings thriller over Tampa. Now that the...

A Totally Swing Badder Wild Card Primer

by Todd Lemieux | Oct 7, 2022 | Analysis, Life=Baseball

Welcome to October and Playoff Baseball! Going into the postseason, it would be very easy to simply look at the teams that currently have momentum, maturity, and managerial prowess to get them through the postseason. Here at Swing Badder we look at the fourth M. The...

How do You Light $88,000,000 on Fire?

by Todd Lemieux | Oct 4, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Pay three pitchers to get your team to the playoffs and the World Series and let them come in at the end of the season for a three game series against your divisional rival needing to only win one game and then watch as all three pitchers collapse and hand said...

Ocular Enhancers

by Todd Lemieux | Oct 3, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Endy Chavez has been robbed of his place in history. He should have been the start of a rally for the Mets in game 7 of the 2006 NLCS to beat the Cardinals and move on. With Jim Edmonds on first and Scott Rolen at the plate, Chavez who had somehow managed to hit .306...

The First 40-40 $5 million Man

by Todd Lemieux | Sep 25, 2022 | Life=Baseball

Jose Canseco was Major League Baseball’s first $5 million man. He signed his contract in 1990 and in the article about the signing in the LA Times you can almost hear the remorse of the Athletics organization that they had to do this. Sandy Anderson indicated that it...