Author: Matthew Budkofsky   The NL MVP award has been a revolving door of household names recently with sluggers like Bryce Harper, Giancarlo Stanton and Kris Bryant taking home the last three. This year has been a much different story. …

​Although they are the center of every play, pitchers are not often hired for managerial posts when they hang up their spikes. According to SABR’s Richard Schumann, barely one-tenth of major league managers since 1901 have been ex-pitchers. This pattern persists despite …