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
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
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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Cleveland Indians: Let’s talk trades
Even in this mutant 60-game sprint of a 2020 season, there is a trade deadline. This year the date falls on August 31, and aspiring champions are already busy stalking the bottom feeders in a bid to pick off their
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Minor League experience with Major League enjoyment
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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Cleveland Indians: Rotation Domination
Welcome back to our regularly scheduled, albeit pandemic-delayed, Cleveland Indians programme. The 2020 season is underway and we have baseball to watch, enjoy, and dissect at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario. Thus far, the Indians have been a mixed
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The pain of being a Mets fan continues
Let’s explore the opening few games of this weird season, starting with the positives for the New York Mets. Steven Matz It looks like Steven Matz‘s Spring Training success was not a fluke as he has started the 2020 season
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What a double-play tells us about the 2020 Seattle Mariners
So, we’re just over a week in to a baseball season that may not finish. Seattle Mariners Pitcher A has shown some “good stuff”, Hitter B has struck out more than his previous stats might suggest, and Outfielder C has
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Forever blowing bubbles
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
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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