1. Your St. Louis Cardinals will make the playoffs for the sixth season in a row, but as a wild card team. They’ll be bested in the play-in game by Gerrit Cole and the Pittsburgh Pirates.Last season, the Cardinals rolled to 100 wins on the strength...

It’s that time of year when baseball predictions are about as common as NCAA brackets. So the last thing you need from me is another guess on how the Cards and other teams are likely to do this season.But there’s lots to predict about baseball that...

Howard Megdal is an accomplished author and sportswriter. He’s a contributing writer to a number of national publications, including USA Today, Sports Illustrated and Vice Sports, and writer at large for Capital New York. Megdal has published four...

Last spring, many in the baseball media, along with “Back to the Future” enthusiasts, were predicting the Cubs’ first World Series appearance since 1908. In my opinion, the Cubbies lacked depth, another solid starter, postseason experience, mature...

Why do baseball players spit so much?Basketball players don’t spit. Well, they are indoors — perhaps they don’t want to mess up the floor or make it slippery. Football players are on turf — tough to tell under that helmet, but I don’t see them...

Baseball – what’s not to like?  Since the 1860s, Jewish baseball players have taken the field to play the game fondly referred to as America’s Pastime – and through the years, Jewish fans have cheered from the stands. Nine of them, ranging in...

I’m so glad I get to throw out the first pitch for our special Newmark Pages on Judaism and Baseball. Baseball has transcended fandom in my life; call it a borderline addiction.  I recently traveled with my older son Aaron to Kansas City, visiting...