Mark Simon

What if you only focused on how fielders make plays?

Watching Trout from every possible angle

Pudge had the biggest hit and then took a big hit.

The first-ballot Hall-of-Famer could hit and throw like few could.

From Celina, Texas to the game of his life.

Known for his power, he was also a great pitch framer.

An old football star looks back at his memorable but short career.

One of baseball's most intelligent starting pitchers, Max Scherzer, was on the ESPN campus on Monday to talk baseball with the company's various platforms. I devoted the interview time to a subject I knew he was passionate about: Numbers in baseball. Here's what he had to say. Simon: "You first made your sabermetric interest known in a 2008 interview with Baseball Prospectus. How has your interest evolved since then?" Scherzer: "I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're gett

He's fascinated by a sport he follows with great intensity.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the most important moment of my professional career, which is weird because it took place in a baseball game in Cleveland, about 450 miles from where I lived at the time in Yardley, PA. I didn’t even watch the game because I went to see a movie – The Anniversary Party – at a small theatre in Montgomery, NJ. (I was on an indy-movie kick at the time … it was good, not great). I got home just in time to see the very end of the game, with Jolbert Cabrera’s hit s

Most memorable job ever!