The Case for Larry Walker

Guest post written by William Earl Robinson Jr.   Another opportunity is here for Hall of Fame voters to cast their ballot for the Hall of Fame and another year is going to go by where they ignore a candidate who I think should be an easy choice for the Hall of Fame. That candidate…

Hot Stove Week in Review Nov 9-15

GOLD GLOVES American League C Salvador Perez (3rd), 1B Eric Homer (3rd), 2B Jose Altuve (1st), 3B Manny Machado (2nd), SS Alcides Escobar (1st), LF Yoenis Cespedes (1st), CF Kevin Kiermaier (1st), RF Kole Calhoun (1st), P Dallas Keuchel (2nd) National League C Yadier Molina (8th), 1B Paul Goldschmidt (2nd), 2B Dee Gordon (1st), 3B…

Hot Stove Week in Review Nov 1-8

NEWS The Marlins have officially announced Don Mattingly as their new manager. He received a 4 year deal. Bud Black had accepted an offer from the Nationals to become their new manager but the two couldn’t reach an agreement. The Nationals reached out to Dusty Baker and they reached an agreement to a multi-year contract.…

World Series Prediction by Guest Dennis Gronau

Guest post written by Dennis Gronau   Fall time is here so that means one thing. It’s World Series time. The Fall Classic of 2015 has the New York Mets vs the Kansas City Royals. At the beginning of the season who would have thought these would be the two teams fighting it out to…

Baseball’s Identity Crisis

Guest post written by William Earl Robinson Jr.   Baseball is in the midst of a great identity crisis. It wants to come across as this modern game that will enthrall and excite the masses. It wants to reach out to a new generation of Americans and to people across the world. However, in order to…

AL/NL Wild Card Predictions

AL Wild Card: Astros (Dallas Keuchel) at Yankees (Masahiro Tanaka) At first thought I had the Astros winning but after thinking about it I’m going with the Yankees. Keuchel is a Cy Young contender but he’s pitching on 3 days rest and I’m not sure how often he has done that if ever. Yankees get…

1,000,000 VIEWS (Giveaway Time)

We made it. The biggest Milestone in the history of the 9 Inning Know It All Empire. 1,000,000 views and counting.  I can’t believe that it has only been just over 4 years since I started this site just so I could rant about baseball. Since 9 Inning Know It All began so much has…