The Fab Four are back together. Tom, John and Darius are joined by the boy wonder from down under, Ben Carter, to go through their now locked-in method of predicting the upcoming season. They take the total number of wins
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Author: Gavin
Reasons for Optimism for all 30 MLB teams
Hopefully, you are enjoying our series, taking a positive look at every team’s outlook for 2020. Here’s a list with links to the article, in case you missed any. AL WEST Houston Astros Los Angeles Angels Oakland Athletics Seattle Mariners
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Seattle Mariners 2020: Reasons for Optimism
What happened in 2019? Quite a lot really. It all started in Japan. The Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics in the two-game series, then came back stateside to win the series over the Boston Red Sox. They swept the Angels,
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Episode 156 – Jeff Passan, ESPN
ESPN’s own baseball savant Jeff Passan joins John to talk everything from the current state of baseball, to his evolution from reporter to newsbreaker. Includes a trade mark PASSAN BOMB at the end of the pod – but perhaps not
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Cleveland Indians 2020: Reasons for optimism
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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