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Why Hall of Fame Controversy is Good for Baseball
Updated:As we rant, rave and gnash our teeth on the eve of the annual National Baseball Hall of Fame induction…
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Dramatic Changes Coming for MLB’s Two Most Powerful Divisions
Updated:As the 2021 off-season kicks into cruising gear, Major League Baseball’s two top power Divisions will shift into super-overdrive to…
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Dodgers and Giants Can Resurrect a Faded Rivalry
Updated:Over the next (potentially) seven days the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers will meet in the best of…
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Giants and Dodgers Finish the 2021 Season In a Grudge Match Free For All
Updated:There likely will not be folding chairs flying between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers and the teams…
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Why the Team with the Best MLB Record is Getting No Respect
Updated:If the Los Angeles Dodgers, or New York Yankees, or even the Houston Astros had the highest win total by…
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The West Coast is Poised to Become MLB’s Next Perennial Power Center
Updated:Major League Baseball’s most dynamic history can be found in the geography of franchise domination. Nothing illustrates this better than…
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The SF Giants Get a Big Boost Thanks to the 2021 MLB Schedule
Updated:I don’t know if the guy who originally created the 2021 MLB season schedule was given money, land or cattle…
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Diving Deep into the 2021 SF Giants at the 20-Game Mark
Updated:After the first twenty games played at the start of the 2021 season, the San Francisco Giants have a 13-7…
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The Short 2020 MLB Season Finishes Long on Drama
Updated:The historic 2020 Major League Baseball regular season ended with an exciting down-to-the-last-strike horse race in the National League and…
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MLB 2020 Labor Day is Over—Time to Get to Work
Updated:This week most Major League Baseball teams have passed the 40 game two-thirds point of this most unconventional and paradigm-changing…
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The 2020 MLB Season: History Happening in Front of Our Eyes
Updated:Major League Baseball just kicked off the 2020 season and by any measure it will be highly watchable, utterly unique,…
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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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How the SF Giants Are Turning Their Broken Farm System Around
Updated:When, you might wonder, was the last time the San Francisco Giants had four players on Major League Baseball’s Top…
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Why the World of the San Francisco Giants Got Blowed Up Real Good
Updated:As we move through the 2020 MLB pre-season, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi continues to clean…
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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 2019 MLB Trade Deadline: Award-Winning Analysis and Some Other Stuff
Updated:The recent MLB trade deadline is being described in terms of what the Big Three franchises did or didn’t do…
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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…
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The SF Giants and the First Rule of Holes: Just Stop Digging
Updated:After the first three weeks and 20 games into the 2019 season, the San Francisco Giants appear on the surface…
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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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“Playing Pepper” Adds Spice to the 2019 MLB Season
Updated:“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of…
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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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New SF Giants Executive Team Will Inherit an Organization in Disarray
Updated:Once the San Francisco Giants go through the process of selecting a new President of Baseball Ops and a new…
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Giants Hall of Fame Slugger Willie McCovey Dies at 80
Updated:Willie McCovey 01/10/38 – 10/31/18 Willie McCovey debuted with the San Francisco Giants on July 30, 1959 at the age…
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A Giants Cove Exclusive! We Have the LA Angels’ Written Exam for Manager
Updated:Hold on to your authentic MLB-branded reversible ball caps! We recently got the news that the LA Angels of Anaheim…
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