National League
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5.5K6Why We Should Be Skeptical of Kyle Schwarber
The Chicago Cubs are the reigning World Series Champions and they return most of their roster from last year, but with a...
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4.0K2017 National League West Season Preview
Things change, things stay the same. With a San Francisco collapse, the NL West gave us an eventful end of season last...
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2.1KShining a Spotlight on Baseball’s Most Overlooked Players
Inspired by Brandon Isleib and his great Baseball in The Dark: The Best Players Outside the Spotlight piece, I decided to turn...
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3.1K32017 American League East Season Preview
Ah the AL East, that hotbed of money, competition, and heartbreak. In 2016, the AL East earned the unique distinction of “division...
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3.4K1Conjuring Thoughts on the 2017 Milwaukee Brewers, MLB Team
We’re continuing our season previews today and Max tells me that I have been assigned the NL Central, but I cannot write...
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3.6K12017 National League Central Preview
The NL Central is a division characterized by contrasts. On the one hand, the Chicago Cubs, led by the best manager in...
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4.8K12017 National League East Preview
The National League East is a mix of the haves and the have-nots, though not to the extreme that was 2016, when 3...
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4.1K2Significant Mechanical Changes in Jason Heyward’s New Swing
I recently read a post on Off the Bench titled Former College Hitting Coach Breaks Down Jason Heyward’s Swing. Seeing as I...
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3.6K3Spotlight on the 2017 Washington Nationals
Off The Bench’s season previews this year are being run a bit differently. We’ll runa divisional preview for each of baseball’s 6...
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7.1K5Former College Hitting Coach Breaks Down Jason Heyward’s Swing
Jason Heyward is 6’5” 240 Lbs; he’s a plus runner with plus bat speed, a plus arm, a plus defender, and apparently...
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7.5K1Adam Wainwright Needs His New (Old) Curveball
The St. Louis Cardinals’ Ace Adam Wainwright returned from a brutal Achilles injury in earnest in 2016. With four top 3 Cy...
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4.3K15 Must Watch Players in Spring Training
Spring Training is finally here! Thank god; I don’t think I, as an individual, nor we, as a nation and a planet,...