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2.0K2Kyle Hendricks, Marcus Stroman and Adjusting to Adjustments
This postseason feels like it has been dominated by young Aces. With the historically great New York Mets quartet of Matt Harvey,...
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2.3KAn Evening with Rob Manfred: On Pete Rose, Expansion, The Home Run King, Gambling and More
MLB’s Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke to Marvin Kalb tonight as part of the Kalb Report in Washington, DC and I was lucky...
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2.1KIn Memoriam of Yogi Berra
We don’t do these often. Great players and characters like Yogi Berra don’t come around often. We try to write about the...
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2.9K1Fixing the 2015 Boston Red Sox on OOTP 16
The 2015 Boston Red Sox were doomed. They overpaid for all their free agent signings, collected a starting rotation who are best...
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2.6KSchwarber Who? Sano The Better Player
It seems that the 2015 season has seen a resurgence of offense, lead mostly by a collection of under 25 year old...
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1.3KJoey Votto Resurgence Almost Justifying Contract
Just before the 2012 season, the Cincinnati Reds inked first baseman Joey Votto to a 12-year, $215 Million deal. Off The Bench...
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1.3KOTBB’s End of May Team Rankings
Well, we’re through May and there’s some strange things going on. The Twins are really good for some reason, the Astros are...
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4.0K10The Last Best League Hardly the Best, For Me
Last summer, Off The Bench was gifted a publisher’s copy of “The Last Best League” by Jim Collins for review. It’s been...
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2.8KLance McCullers Jr Makes Debut, Has Impressive Pitcher Comps
The Houston Astros promoted Lance McCullers Jr to make his big league debut on Monday. Normally, a move to promote a 21-year...
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2.7KRedrafting the MLB
With the seven-round NFL draft occurring last weekend and the upcoming nine hundred-round MLB Draft coming up in I think a...
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2.8KOut of the Park Baseball: Next Level Baseball Nerding
Out of the Park Baseball has graciously provided Off The Bench with copies of their baseball simulator for each of the past...
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1.9KContractual Somewhat Obligations
We are through with the first week of the baseball season, and on multiple occasions we are seeing billionaire baseball owners refusing...