Bruce Schoenfeld

3 weeks ago | stevesailer.net | Bruce Schoenfeld |Steve Sailer

With baseball season gearing up again, the New York Times Magazine runs a long article about the decline of the starting pitcher. If starters aren’t allowed to throw more than 100 pitches per game, how can they achieve traditional superstar pitcher statistics such as 20 wins per season? How can this be good for baseball? How Analytics Marginalized Baseball’s Superstar PitchersWhy has pro baseball made it so hard for today’s pitchers to achieve greatness?

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Bruce Schoenfeld

One day at Wrigley Field last May, Paul Skenes was pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates, carving out a small piece of baseball history in his second big-league game. Just two years before, he was a sophomore at the Air Force Academy, learning to fly C-17 transport planes in preparation for a career in the military. Now he was dominating the Chicago Cubs. He struck out the first seven batters he faced. By the end of the fifth inning, he had increased his strikeout total to 10.

2 months ago | espn.co.uk | James Olley |Bruce Schoenfeld

James Maddison aimed a dig at Roy Keane after scoring the winning goal in Tottenham Hotspur's 1-0 victory over Manchester United on Sunday.

2 months ago | espn.co.uk | Mark Ogden |Chris Wright |Bruce Schoenfeld

MANCHESTER, England -- Omar Marmoush might just be the missing ingredient for Manchester City and manager Pep Guardiola -- but the forward's 14-minute hat trick in a 4-0 win against Newcastle on Saturday only highlighted how long the club had been in need of reinforcements and how slowly a solution arrived.

2 months ago | espn.co.uk | Adam Brown |Sam Tighe |Bruce Schoenfeld

Arsenal produced a strong second-half performance to secure a 2-0 victory over Leicester City in the Premier League at the King Power Stadium. A quiet first half saw limited chances created for the Gunners, though they looked brightest when attacking through Martin Ødegaard and Ethan Nwaneri who both asked questions of the defence with some dangerous balls into the box.