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Author: GavGavinGavlaar

What is in the water in Ohio?

August 14, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Warning: Tenuous link ahead. A few years ago, the town of Flint, Michigan suffered a catastrophe when cost-cutting measures forced the residents in the General Motors-based city to consume lead-contaminated water resulting in death, disease and birth abnormalities. Political and

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Marlins and Orioles playoff bound? That’s so 2020

August 14, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

With expanded playoffs a “thing” this season, eight teams from each league will play October baseball. The top two teams in each division make up 12 of the 16 spots, with the two final places in each league going to

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Trade speculation: Reds and Indians

August 14, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Guest writer

Trade: Brad Hand to the Cincinnati Reds for RHP Joe Boyle Nearly everyone in Cleveland does not like Brad Hand in the closer role. I thought Cody Allen was tough to watch as a closer, but Hand has blown that

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Early season MVP candidates

August 12, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Assuming that the season plays out and that the trophy for Most Valuable Player is awarded, then here is a quick look at that current favourites. Fernando Tatis Jr. The WAR leader has launched eight homers with 15 runs and

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Minor League experience with Major League enjoyment

August 12, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Guest writer

As a baseball fan, I often looked at movies like Bull Durham and the like, and had a hankering to visit small-town America and go to a Minor League game. Like most sports, the real guts of it is not

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Forever blowing bubbles

August 1, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Guest writer

The Major League Baseball season is becoming quite counterproductive at the moment. With all these positive tests popping up in several team’s locker rooms, how can MLB keep a competitive schedule? Major League Baseball has a problem on their hands.

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Bartolo Colon – The secret weapon to fix the Red Sox Rotation

July 30, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Team Contributors

The Red Sox lost two of three games to open the season against the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles were last seen losing in the AL Wildcard in 2016, although they probably kept playing and losing since then. It’s hard to

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What if last season had started on 23 July …

July 22, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Eugenio Suarez would have been the home run king with 23 dingers. And his teammate, Aristides Aquino would have tied for sixth-place with 19. Watch out for the Cincinnati Reds this season. Trea Turner scored the most runs (56) after

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Tampa Bay Rays: 2020 World Series Champions?

July 21, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Guest writer

If there’s one team that seems primed to take advantage of the anomalous 2020 MLB season, it’s the Tampa Bay Rays. The 60-game schedule and expanded rosters that are likely to define the forthcoming campaign play right into the hands

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Episode 190 – 2020 Baseball Visions – The Minor Leaguer with Mitch Horacek

July 21, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Twins lefty Mitch Horacek joins to chat about the plight of minor league baseball players during COVID. During a candid conversation, he discusses the need for union representation in the minors, goes into the moral conundrum of ‘staying ready’ for

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