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Mike Trout: Proof Slugging Percentage Plus is Not Broken
By any metric imaginable, Los Angeles Angels wunderkind Mike Trout is having one heck of a season. He’s leading the world in...
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Barry Bonds Should Absolutely, Positively, 100% Be In the Hall of Fame
Apparently, someone asked Mr. Barry Bonds the other day whether or not he thought he should be voted into the Hall of...
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Aroldis Chapman for NL Cy Young
Each year, the Cy Young award is given to the best pitcher in each league, and this season the National League’s best pitcher has been Cincinatti...
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It’s August and No Managers Have Been Fired Yet, Not Even Jim Tracy
Remarkable as it may seem, as of today, August 7th, every single person on my preseason managerial rankings still has a job. Even...
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Baseball in the Olympics: Is the Winter an Option?
The Games are in full swing. Michael Phelps became the Greatest Olympian Ever, his 18 golds equalling the total medal count of...
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Washington DC and the Nationals: The Makings of a Great Baseball Town
Those of you who follow this blog might have picked up on the fact that I’ve been going to a lot of...
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Mariners
I don’t know if the rest of the world knows or cares about this, but the Mariners are on a 7 game...
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Trade Deadline 2012 Winners and Losers
The 2012 baseball non-waiver trade deadline has come and gone. Twitter managed to…. not explode, some teams got marginally better, and still...
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Trade Deadline Eve 2012, Recap
It sure feels like Christmas in July around the Trade Deadline. Many teams couldn’t wait until the day of the Deadline to open...
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Hunter Pence to the San Francisco Giants
Reports surfaced overnight that the San Francisco Giants have made a deal for Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Hunter Pence. Pence, last summer’s deadline...