What happened in 2019? In short, the Indians were out-homered. Even the most optimistic Minnesota Twins fan did not foresee a 101-win season with an MLB-record of 307 home runs. Cleveland, by comparison, won 93 games but finished in the
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Beer and baseball; a match made in heaven
I can’t lie, I like beer, and I like baseball. In fact, it could be argued that I like both beer and baseball too much. The recent opening of Home Run House in Stratford is the latest in a series
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Episode 155 – Mark Simon, Sports Info Solutions
Mark Simon of Sports Info Solutions joins Russell to discuss the latest edition of the Fielding Bible, the updated Defensive Runs Saved metric, and SABR, plus how Matt Chapman is even better than you thought, and how you can get
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Episode 154 – Rick Teasley Returns
Pitcher Rick Teasley returns to the podcast to share stories of his 2019 in the Atlantic League as MLB used them as a testing ground for the new automated strike zone, and his reasons for moving over to Cleburne of
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Chicago White Sox 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? The White Sox entered January 2019 full of optimism that the franchise would secure the services of either Bryce Harper or Manny Machado … or maybe even both. The press office’s faux pas of their Harper
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Episode 152 – OOTP Baseball’s Rich Grisham
Tom is joined by Out Of The Park (OOTP) Baseball’s Chief Operating Officer, Rich Grisham. They talk about how Rich got into OOTP, how he come to work with them, some of the challenges facing the team, where the game
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Chicago Cubs 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? Another frustrating year on the Northside of Chicago with the Cubs finishing third in the division. This is the same division as the Reds and Pirates, so third-place was a low bar to clear. They had
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What I love about baseball
Spring is a wonderful time. It melts away the icy snows of winter and replaces it with green grass, the enveloping warmth of the sun and its fresh morning air. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, spring
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Rube Foster: the Father of Black Baseball
This week it was a hundred years ago that a group of eight black team owners came together at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri, to talk about a possible national Negro League. The main instigator of these talks
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Episode 151 – Autobiographical Baseball
New recruit Rachel Steinberg hits the ground running by asking John, Darius and Rob to chart their baseball autobiographies in five players. Listen to “Episode 151 – Autobiographical Baseball” on Spreaker. Photo credit Tony Ranze/AFP via Getty Images Embed
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