The Dodgers are in the World Series again, looking to win their second straight championship and third in the past six years. So much for Brian Cashman’s theory that the playoffs are a “crapshoot.” ...

The word that baseball executives utter most frequently each October comes not from the diamond, but the casino floor. “Crapshoot” has become the game’s go-to way of describing the experience of ...

LOS ANGELES – The crapshoot is dead. It’s been nearly 15 years since “Moneyball” came out and Oakland’s Billy Beane was quoted as saying it was his job to get the A’s into the playoffs, and then ...

All across the major leagues, there are stars who were drafted much lower than they should have been in hindsight. Since the inaugural draft in 1965, there have been hundreds of mid-to-late round ...