Tag: Major League Baseball
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It’s Time to Engage OPERATION: TAURUS MAXIMUS
The Mariners have an opportunity to do something truly noteworthy. A step towards the type of radical innovation Andy McKay can only dream about. Something that a major league team would be crazy, perhaps stupid, to even attempt. But if they pulled it off? Oh baby. Abraham Toro came over to the Mariners at the…
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Calm Down; Don’t Panic: A Journey Through the 2021-2022 Free Agent Hitter Market
Don’t panic! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien. Calm down! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien and Seager. Don’t panic! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien, Seager, and Suzuki. Calm down!! All the big bats are still available, except for Semien, Seager, Suzuki,…
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Baseballs Underperforming Early On in Spring Training
With the lockout taking away the majority of the offseason and a lot of precious prep time, everyone is scrambling to get up to speed in the short window before Opening Day. And not just the players, coaches, and executives — the baseballs themselves are feeling this time crunch as well. Typically, Major League baseballs…
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Well, it’s Groundhog Day…Again
Rob Manfred woke up this morning, as he has every morning for the last…..who knows, really? He grabbed his cold milk with a splash of warm coffee, took a seat in his ergonomic chair in front of his comically large desk, and got to work. Well, he calls it work. It is something. But it’s…
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What Remains of The Hot Stove Part 1 of IDK
So it seems the contingent of 30 Large Wet And Self Important Adults who own Major League Baseball teams have decided the equilibrium price for labor has climbed too high for SuperDuperUltraWineClubOnLittleSaintJames membership, and have taken their hair plugs and gone home until the baseballguyrabble is pacified. For me, this is a bummer! Secretly I…
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Checking in on Rob Manfred’s Progress with his “Top Five Priorities”
When Rob Manfred was selected to succeed Bud Selig as the new commissioner of Major League Baseball in 2015, he stated that there were five priorities that would be the central focus of his tenure in the position. Given that the league he supposedly oversees for the good of all involved is stuck in an…
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Opinion: Ants Aggressively Biting Child After Their Home Got Destroyed is a Bad Look
On Wednesday afternoon an 11 year old boy in Tucson, AZ walked outside after his grandma said he could not play Nintendo Switch for a seventh straight hour, and looked for something to assert dominance over in order to help his tiny boy brain cope with his lack of control. He found his target in…
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How to Avoid Getting Duped This Hot-Stove Season
Sailor, it’s the offseason. Move-making season. Get-good-players season. And you know what that means: it’s also fake account season. Rumors and news will be flying all over the place, and a lot of it will be more phony than Ellen Degeneres. The last thing anyone wants is to log on to the World Wide Web…
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