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5.9K5 of Baseball’s Most Underrated Prospects for 2018
MLB.com recently released its annual top 100 prospects list. With the volume and tedium of the minor leagues, these lists can prove...
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4.2K1Roster of the Month: The All-Non HOF Team
This is the first edition of Roster of the Month: a new feature at Off the Bench. Each month, we’ll create the...
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1.8KThe 5 Times the Pitch Clock will Matter
The pitch clock is coming to Major League Baseball, whether the players like it or not. For some reason, the MLBPA and...
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3.2K3The San Francisco Giants are Baseball’s Best Team… In 2013
On Monday morning, the San Francisco Giants completed a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates for Center Fielder Andrew McCutchen. While it’s debatable...
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2.9KThe Best Non-Baseball Baseball Front Office
Earlier this week, David Cameron, the managing editor of FanGraphs and the man perhaps most responsible for bringing that site into the...
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4.4KArbitration Settlements: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In the desolate, barren wasteland of the baseball off-season, each morsel of news is precious nourishment. These bleak oases are all we...
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8.1K42018 National League Manager Ranking
Every year around this time, Off the Bench publishes our annual manager ranking. This is a tradition that goes all the way...
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5.8KMitch Moreland Makes Sense for the Boston Red Sox
On Monday, the Boston Red Sox filled their hole at first base, but not with J.D. Martinez, Eric Hosmer, or Jose Abreu,...
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2.2KMLB Owners Get $50 Million Windfall, Will Now Lower Ticket Prices!
Major League Baseball announced today that each team will receive a $50 million payment from the league in the first quarter of...
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2.6K2MLB Offseason Power Rankings: After The Winter Meetings
Now that Shohei Ohtani and Giancarlo Stanton have new homes and the Winter Meetings are behind us, it seems high time to...
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2.8K1The Shohei Ohtani Rejects Support Group
Off The Bench was lucky enough to be in the room at the winter meetings this week when an impromptu healing session...
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5.8K1Matt Harvey Desperately Needs to be Traded: An Inside Look From a Friend of the Family
The 2017 Winter Meetings will be remembered for the Giancarlo Stanton trade, but rumors circulating around trade of New York Mets’ starter Matt...