A Swing and a Belt with Dan Shulman

Despite two significant coronavirus outbreaks and a lot of concern, we are now in baseball’s stretch run. MLB has reportedly planned for postseason bubbles — of sorts. Two ballparks in Texas for the National League and two in California for the American League, with the World Series scheduled for Globe Life Field in Arlington. Andrew […]

Dante Bichette enjoyed an outstanding 14-year big league career. Part of the feared ‘Blake Street Bombers’ in Colorado, Bichette was a four-time All-Star who finished with a .299 batting average and 274 home runs. During the 2013 season, he served as the Rockies’ hitting coach before deciding to spend more time at home, in part […]

North Carolina Tar Heels coach Roy Williams is a legend in the college basketball world; a Hall of Famer who has achieved everything there is to be achieved in the sport. But Williams has never lost his inner child — the one who idolized Mickey Mantle and knew everything there was to know about the […]

As hard as it is to believe, it’s September. Baseball is still here, and we have pennant races. Today, in Part 2 of our chat with MLB Network Radio’s Casey Stern, we look back at the trade deadline and discuss which teams put themselves in a good spot for the stretch drive. This podcast is […]

Imagine loving a team so much, it consumes you. Now imagine that team provides you with more anguish than joy, to the point where you wish that you never loved it to begin with. A case can be made that nothing in baseball is harder than being a fan of the New York Mets. MLB […]

This year no one knew quite what to expect at the trade deadline, but it felt strangely… normal. Deals were made; contenders bulked up; the scene was set for the push to October. Dan and MLB Network’s JP Morosi break down the winners and losers. This episode is produced and sound designed by Amil Delic, and […]

Cavan Biggio has a keen eye, both between the white lines and beyond. Whether it’s forcing a pitcher into the strike zone or having a great sense of what is right and wrong in the world, he has quickly become of the most important Blue Jays. Biggio joined Dan Friday afternoon, Jackie Robinson Day, to […]

Jeff Dufine got the promotion of a lifetime over the winter when ESPN gave him the chance to produce Sunday Night Baseball. And then the pandemic shut everything down. When baseball started back up and it was time to get to work, nothing was like he thought it would be back in March. From the […]

The Chicago White Sox are often overlooked — the “second team” in their own town. Now, they’re forcing people to take notice about what’s happening on the South Side. So, who is this team? And why is it having so much fun? Chicago local and TV voice of the White Sox Jason Benetti brings us […]

Any other year, if player agents are fortunate enough to have a few major league clients, things go smoothly. They negotiate contracts, look for client endorsement opportunities — everybody’s happy. But in 2020, nothing is as it used to be. Many players are flat out worried about how to make it through, now and in […]