Bill Madden

The 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame election is over and as is so often the case there was more debate about the players that didn’t get in than those that did.

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Bill Madden: Making sense of the Hall of Fame voting and why Billy Wagner can count on another vote

January 27, 2024 at 10:30 a.m.

The 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame election is over and as is so often the case there was more debate about the players that didn’t get in than those that...

The results are in, and Cooperstown will have some new faces join the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Bill Madden: Baseball Hall of Fame inducts 3 franchise icons in Adrian Beltre, Joe Mauer and Todd Helton

January 23, 2024 at 9:43 p.m.

The results are in, and Cooperstown will have some new faces join the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Bill Madden: Yankees join the desperation trend in baseball with Marcus Stroman signing

January 14, 2024 at 3:15 a.m.

If there is one common theme to this baseball offseason it is the desperation everywhere for quality starting pitching.

It has been a slow, sad journey into darkness, and for Buddy Harrelson the lights have now finally gone out.

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Bud Harrelson, beloved Mets shortstop on World Series champs and manager, dies at 79

January 11, 2024 at 3:18 p.m.

It has been a slow, sad journey into darkness, and for Buddy Harrelson the lights have now finally gone out.

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Bill Madden: Lou Piniella gets screwed by Hall of Fame; Inside Yankees deal for slugger Juan Soto

December 9, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

The winter meetings in Nashville kicked off with Lou Piniella being screwed and concluded with Juan Soto finally being traded. In between, Shohei Ohtani held everyone hostage.

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Bill Madden: It’s disgraceful the way baseball’s analytics obsession has turned on its managers

November 11, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

In the end David Stearns got what he wanted in Carlos Mendoza, a nice guy who interviewed well and who everyone likes, but with no previous managerial experience will obligingly...

Welcome to the third all-wild card World Series and the second in a row in which one of the participants is the sixth overall seed from their league.

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Bill Madden: Diamondbacks in the World Series proof that Mets gave up too early on season

October 28, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

Welcome to the third all-wild card World Series and the second in a row in which one of the participants is the sixth overall seed from their league.

Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper

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Bill Madden: Don’t blame Brian Cashman for Bryce Harper not being a Yankee

October 14, 2023 at 4:05 p.m.

The media and fans that are once again killing Cashman for passing on Harper as a free agent in 2018 have forgotten all the circumstances which led to him signing...

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Bill Madden: No playoffs, but plenty of October drama surrounding Yankees, Mets

October 7, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

While Steve Cohen and his new baseball ops chief David Stearns embark on a search for yet another GM, the outside firm Hal Steinbrenner has hired will soon begin its...

What it all came down to, once Steve Cohen made his bed with David Stearns as his baseball operations chief, Buck Showalter was simply analytics-ed out of his job as Mets manager.

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Bill Madden: Showalter never a good fit for analytics-focused Mets

October 1, 2023 at 10:23 p.m.

What it all came down to, once Steve Cohen made his bed with David Stearns as his baseball operations chief, Buck Showalter was simply analytics-ed out of his job as...

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