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Four Intriguing MLB Stories I Can’t Get Out of My Head (#1 & #2)
Updated:In the great swath of legendary MLB history and statistical oddities there are certain tales that grab us by the…
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MLB Joins a World Turned Upside Down by the COVID-19 Tsunami
Updated:Major League Baseball may have shut everything down just in the nick of time. On March 11, 2020 Washington Post…
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The Only Guide You Will Need for the 2019 MLB Wild Card Games: Free Version
Updated:As Milwaukee and Washington prepare to play the NL Wild Card game later today, it’s instructive to note that few…
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Truly Epic MLB Playoff Wars Building in the NL and AL Central Divisions
Updated:It’s usually around mid-August when the global Major League Baseball picture starts to come into sharper, more precise focus. As…
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The SF Giants Serve Up a Delicious Problem
Updated:The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed…
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A Critical Mid-Season Turning Point for the SF Giants and Farhan Zaidi
Updated:The Major League Baseball landscape in San Francisco is a contorted mishmash as we pause at the All-Star break to…
Read more »In the SF Giants Dugout the Veterans are Leading by (Worst) Example
Updated:With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, the discord…
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For the SF Giants “Rebuild” Doesn’t Begin to Describe What’s Happening
Updated:The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in the…
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2019 MLB Teams: False Positives and Completely Wrong Negatives
Updated:Every year we get all worked up about the success or failure of various MLB teams, based on what we…
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The SF Giants: Smoke, Mirrors, and Bryce Harper
Updated:One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper….
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Debunking Two Losing MLB Strategies: The “Open Window” and Having a “Core”
Updated:We often hear the following tired clichés when baseball commentators, front office executives or field managers are talking about the…
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SF Giants: Two Iconic Stars, Two Critical Questions to be Answered
Updated:The addition of new President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi doesn’t change the difficult immediate outlook or profound long-term challenges…
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SF Giants Turn an Era-Ending Double Play
Updated:Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General…
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The Biggest Challenge for the SF Giants is Changing their Culture
Updated:When San Francisco Giants Chief Executive Officer Larry Baer announced on September 24th that the team’s General Manager Bobby Evans…
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Misleading and Irrelevant MLB Stats Still Roam the Earth
Updated:You would think the sports section of a metropolitan newspaper would use modern analytical statistics to support their Major League…
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It’s Time for a Revolution in Baseball Broadcasting
Updated:2018 has been another tremendous Major League Baseball season, featuring great division races, elite-league teams, young superstar players and dramatic…
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The Myths About MLB Player Injuries Are Alive and Well in 2018
Updated:Once again this season we’ve heard the same tired cliched comments about MLB player injuries: > “Wow is it me…
Read more »Who’s Leading the War Against Baseball? Amazingly, it’s Former MLB Players
Updated:We live in a time when ideology is more important than our basic institutions. When traditions and foundational beliefs are…
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2018 SF Giants Poised to Spiral into NL West Obscurity
Updated:As we complete the first full week after the 2018 All-Star Break, there’s a lot to suggest that the current…
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Two National League Teams with Opposite Opportunities to Reboot
Updated:It’s odd to think of the 2018 New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers as being in similar situations as…
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The 2018 MLB Trade Deadline: What the SF Giants Will Do — What they Should Do
Updated:After the first 69 games of the 2018 season, the San Francisco Giants are 34-35, in third place in the…
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SF Giants’ Farm System: A Cluster of Hype and Myths
Updated:What do you do when your MLB team’s organizational ratings have been in the bottom 20% of all thirty teams…
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Ready for Another Shake-up Year in the NL West? Not So Fast
Updated:2017 was a paradigm shift season for the National League West. With both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies under…
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For the San Francisco Giants, the Old School is Always In Session
Updated:Let’s get one thing out of the way before those of you enjoying an adult beverage do a spit-take and…
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STOP THE PRESSES!! WE HAVE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL BREAKING NEWS!!
Updated:Cutting Edge Baseball Headlines From Around the Nation and Around the World! This Is the Real Made Up News that…
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One Brain-Dead MLB Debate Needs to Go Away in 2018
Updated:As we careen into the first several weeks of the 2018 MLB season, it’s a good time to address the…
Read more »The LA Dodgers and the Zen of Doing Nothing While Making Everything Happen
We recently reviewed a number of misleading offseason narratives being spun about each team in the National League West. Incorrect…
Read more »Playing Pepper 2018: When You Come to the Anniversary in the Road, Take It
This is the tenth year in a row that Daniel Shoptaw has coerced dozens of baseball bloggers to answer a…
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Deconstructing the SF Giants' 2018 Schedule: It’s All About the First Half
Traditionally Major League Baseball divides every season into the “first half” and “second half”, with the All-Star break being the…
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