Last week, we asked you to vote for who you would like to see enshrined in baseball’s Hall of Fame. The verdict? If it were up to UmpBump readers, nobody would make it in. The leading vote getter (so far) is Jeff Bagwell, who has 60% support. Of course, in the real voting, players need [...]

In what has become an annual tradition, we here at UmpBump cast our ballots for the Hall of Fame on the eve of the announcements of the voting for the real Hall of Fame. Voters can vote for anyone ever who has been retired from baseball for at least five years and is not already [...]

Now that we’ve looked at every position on the diamond, as well as relief pitchers, we are nearing the end of our “Crowdsourcing the Greats” series. But before we finish, let’s turn one more time to the internet hoi polloi for answers on who the greatest baseball manager of all time was. As usual, we [...]

Now that the Rays have been booted from the playoffs, we will continue our occasional series examining at what contending teams should aim to do with their rosters in the offseason by having a look at Tampa Bay’s roster situation: Free Agents OF Carl Crawford 1B Carlos Pena CL Rafael Soriano RP Grant Balfour RP [...]

Today we continue our occasional series wherein we rank the greatest ballplayers of all time at each position using the seemingly ridiculous but surprisingly effective method of aggregating the first ten top-10 rankings at each position to turn up in a Google search, on the assumption that millions of clicks and links must contain some [...]

We continue our occasional series wherein we examine some teams in transition and make hasty judgements about who they should hire and fire for next season. Up next: the troubled Los Angeles Dodgers. Free Agents SP Hiroki Kuroda SP Ted Lilly SP Vicente Padilla OF Reed Johnson OF Jay Gibbons C Rod Barajas Arbitration Eligible [...]