All posts tagged "main"
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2.0K2ArchivesKyle 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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2.3KArchivesAn 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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2.1KArchivesIn 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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2.9K1ArchivesFixing 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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2.6KAL CentralSchwarber 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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1.3KArchivesJoey 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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2.8K3American LeagueThe 2015 Trade Deadline Winners and Losers
The 2015 non-waiver deadline has come and gone. It was one of the wilder trade deadlines since I have been keeping this near...
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1.7KAmerican LeagueSo, Uh, The Astros Are Legit
Last night, I watched the first place Houston Astros take on the Chicago White Sox. The Astros sat at 34-26 and had...
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1.5KAmerican LeagueAssessing High Impact Tommy John Returnees
Around this time last season, things got pretty depressing as exciting, young, and really good MLB players started dropping like flies, all...
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3.2KArizona DiamondbacksAJ Pollock and How to Quietly Become Famous
AJ Pollock is an outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Scratch that, he’s the starting center fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Scratch that,...
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1.3KAmerican LeagueOTBB’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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4.0K10ArchivesThe 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...