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Managers have shown a willingness to be flexible with bullpen roles in the postseason; will that mentality shift to the regular season?

Story | Conversation | October 17, 2012

How did we get here? No, I don't mean "What's on the other side of the universe?" kind of here. How did we get here? June 8: The Mariners lead the Dodgers 1-0 in the eighth inning. They're working on a combined no-hitter, but the Dodgers ha...

The Sugar Land Skeeters are taking baseball back to the future. Yep, they're using a bullpen cart.

The Angels' newest reliever, Jason Isringhausen, once blew a save with two pitches. Bernie Williams hit one over the right-field wall at Yankee Stadium and David Justice hit one over the center-field wall. The next day, the headline in the New Yor...

The subject of Jack Morris and the Hall of Fame seems to be the bright burning flame before the fireworks for Barry Larkin have finished going off. Morris' clock may have been running out, but after he reached 66.7 percent of the vote in the 13th yea...

I want to consider Lee Smith's Hall of Fame question fairly. But I keep returning to what I think is the obvious question: Would you really rather have Lee Smith on your team than Barry Larkin or Alan Trammell or Edgar Martinez or Tim Raines or Berni...

There are a lot of misunderstandings about the Hall of Fame and its voting procedures and results, beginning with the little fact that baseball was not, of course, actually invented in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839 by a future Civil War general named Ab...

Check out the top five questions heading into the National League Championship Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers.

Three consecutive games of imperfect humanity? Say it ain't so, Mo!

OK, it's time to settle one of the most important debates of the 2011 season: Who has the best hair? Beards seem to be the in thing, as I haven't seen this many beards since Glenn Hubbard, Bruce Sutter and Gene Garber played for the '85 Braves. I'...

Greg Fiume/Getty Images It takes a lot of strength to throw a pitch this soft. There are few pitches in baseball as hard to master, or hit, as the knuckleball. And with R.A. Dickey's continued success on the mound for the Mets (he pitched 7 innin...

The thing is done. Now we can stop talking about Jim Rice, until a respectful period has passed and we can simply add him to the list of good players -- Bruce Sutter, Catfish Hunter and Orlando Cepeda come to mind -- who don't really belong in the Ha...

Bruce Sutter, inducted into the Hall of Fame this year, had his No. 42 jersey retired Sunday by the St. Louis Cardinals.

Eighteen years after he hung up his spikes for good, Bruce Sutter was inducted Sunday into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Bruce Sutter evolved into a Hall of Famer thanks in large part to his mastery at throwing the split-fingered fastball, writes Tim Kurkjian.

Dan Shanoff on Bruce Sutter, Mark McGwire, LenDale White, Bode Miller, NFL Misery, Marcus Vick, Tedy Bruschi, Boston College and more.