Season Previews
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2.5KArizona Fall League 2019: Players to Watch (Part 1)
The Arizona Fall League has become a renowned proving ground for baseballs’s future elite. Last year, the AFL was a veritable circus,...
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1.8KOff The Bench’s MLB Season Predictions
Happy Opening Day! Happy Opening Day! Happy Opening Day! It’s been a long offseason for us at Off The Bench, but it’s...
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2.7KOpening Day Fun Facts for 2018
Opening Day is finally here. We’ve made it through the long winter staring out the window waiting on Spring to arrive. We’ve...
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1.7KDucksnort Podcast: Season Preview with Sean Morash
Note: We’re excited to announce a new partnership between Off the Bench and Ducksnort Baseball Podcast. Much like OTBB, Ducksnort approaches baseball...
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6.4KOff The Rankings: Ranking the Best Utility Men
Yesterday, we introduced our 2018 MLB utility men, covering each team and each fringe roster player. These guys are not the stars...
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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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2.1KAccountability Absent in Baseball Amid Tax Cuts
Last December, the President signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law. According to at least half of DC, the bill...
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4.3K2Matt Kemp and Joc Pederson Platoon Similar and Famous if not Good
The Dodgers have broken camp for spring training with largely the same roster as a year ago, which is a good thing...
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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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2.7KMLB Offseason Power Rankings – The Men Who Stare at Goats
Despite the frigid ‘hot stove’ all winter, I have been locked in this offseason because of OTBB’s offseason power rankings. The power...
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11.4K3Athletics’ Matt Olson is Baseball’s Least Predictable Player
Think about Mike Trout, but don’t look at his stats. What kind of season do you think he’ll have in 2018? Maybe something...
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3.9K2017 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...