The first day of games in Regensburg were action packed with Spain edging out South Africa, and Great Britain pummelling France to stay in the winner’s side of the tournament. France and South Africa find themselves one loss away from
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San Francisco Giants: Everyone loves Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Flores is one of my favourite Giants. If you took a poll among Giants fans strolling through the gates of Oracle Park, I bet you they’d say something similar. Flores is undoubtedly a fan favourite these days, and over
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2022 Playoffs – What if the season finished today?
With around 35 regular season games remaining, let’s look at the playoff situation. As you will recall, the 2022 postseason is a new 12-team format comprising the six division winners and the three wild-card teams for each league. Wild Card
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Fantasy Baseball Eliminator: The Final Cut
It started with 24 teams in March, and with today’s elimination of Rotoballer’s Jamie Steed, the field has been whittled away to create an elite selection of 12 finalists. This dynamic dozen will battle it out over the next five
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Apropos of nothing: The PED All-Star lineup
There are many reasons why I hate drug cheats but mainly because they fuel my scepticism of exceptional sporting performances. I don’t want to doubt the legitimacy of Shohei Ohtani‘s brilliance or Edwin Diaz‘s resurgence, or Aaron Judge‘s power surge,
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Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum
Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson
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San Francisco Giants: Joey Bart steps forward
When Buster Posey announced his retirement in November 2021, the stage was set for his successor to usher in a new era of Giants baseball. The man who would follow Posey was always going to tread a difficult path. How
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London Series: Cardinals and Cubs to play in MLB London Series 2023
Hold on to your hats, folks. MLB has confirmed that the two teams competing in the 2023 London Series are… drumroll… the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals. The two games will take place on 24-25 June 2023, marking
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World Baseball Classic: Can the GB National Team qualify?
Last week, we looked at the forthcoming World Baseball Classic, but before the tournament across three nations of Japan, Taiwan, and the USA starts in March 2023, there is still a little matter of final qualification. The GB National Team
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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?
Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The
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