Baseball
There’s a lot of baseball storylines out there that are interesting.
There’s the Braves’ race to the basement, as TFP ace columnist Mark Wiedmer nails in his column today. There’s the Cubs spring to the penthouse, which have them at 40-16, matching the pace the Mariners had at the same point when they set the wins record 15 years ago. There’s also the Cubs dominating this CBS list of the top 100 players in baseball, with three players in the top 10. (Julio Teheran is the lone Brave on the list at No. 69.)
Side note on that list: We are a monster fan of Clayton Kershaw, who deservedly ranks 1 on the list. The blurb says it all about Kershaw’s start to 2016: He has almost as many shutouts (3) as he has walks (5) this year.
The other story that caught our eye is the spiraling place in which Ryan Howard has landed and how he’s been treated in Philadelphia.