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6.9K4What If Major League Baseball Was Entirely Alphabetical? (Part 1)
Sometimes, here at Off the Bench, we digress. Often, on such occasions, the culprit is Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP – the...
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4.3K12018 Off The Bench MLB.tv Watchability Rankings
The current suite of really cool MLB Advanced Media products – like Statcast, and the awesome little clips and GIFs of smooth...
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4.3KOff The Rankings: The 5 Best MLB Players to be Stuck on a Deserted Island With
Has anyone ever actually gotten stuck on a deserted island? Probably not, but as this year’s March Madness tournament is showing us, literally...
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6.6K1Off the Rankings: Introducing the 2018 MLB Utility Men
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. -Max McKeown Long, long ago in a time...
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2.1K2An Alternate Universe Where the Miami Marlins Tried
Join me, won’t you? Step with me into the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Spaceship, for the uninitiated) and come with...
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18.9K1Getting Tim Lincecum to the Hall of Fame
It shouldn’t have come to this. At age 33, Tim Lincecum wasn’t supposed to sign for $1 million. The Freak posted consecutive...
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3.6KRoster of the Month: The All-Padres Power Team
I might have a problem with the Padres. I’m not sure why, but I’m unable to stop making fun of them. I’m...
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4.5K2Eric Hosmer Signing Likely Worsens Padres Defense, but Chaos Theory
The Padres Eric Hosmer signing may have inadvertently cured cancer or poisoned the Colorado River. Chaos Theory proposes that every microscopically small...
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2.3K‘I Just Wanted To Watch Some Baseball’: Mom of the Year Gets Kicked Out of Fake Spring Training By A Jerk Named Tony
As a mom of the year candidate every year, there are certain things that I do that go above and beyond the...
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1.9KNew York Yankees Acquire Russell Wilson
Who has the best quarterback in the state of New York? It’s not the Giants. Or the Bills. And it sure as...
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6.2K3A Dinelson Lamet Breakout Could be Coming
Recently the great Patrick Dubuque posted a cold take in which he tried to figure out how Zack Godley managed to “command”...
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2.9KWhich MLB Players Should You Look Out for in the 2018 Season?
At the end of March, the 2018 season of the MLB finally begins. This winter has been uncharacteristically quiet, but there have...