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Boston: One heck of a sports town

October 1, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

I recently got back from a few days in the great city of Boston. Given the history attached to the ballpark, I made a point of going to a game at Fenway Park while I was there, taking in the

San Francisco Giants: Everyone loves Wilmer Flores

September 8, 2022 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

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

Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum

August 9, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

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

San Francisco Giants: Joey Bart steps forward

August 9, 2022 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

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

The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story

July 22, 2022 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even

Using a Tank to Drive the Team to Vegas Perhaps? – Oakland A’s Mid-Season Report

July 18, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

The All-Star Game marks (roughly) the half-way point of the season for the MLB, so I thought I’d do a progress report on how the A’s are doing. Before the start of the season, I said in my season preview

San Francisco Giants: Carlos Rodón, the All-Star

July 13, 2022 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

When the Giants announced the signing of Carlos Rodón in March their fanbase celebrated in unison. Joyous arms were raised above heads across the land simultaneously. This was the sort of marquee purchase the club should be making on a

Home Run Derby X: Revisiting Geovany Soto’s incredible rookie year

July 7, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

While the last decade was unquestionably one of the best in the entire history of the Chicago Cubs, the one that preceded it was far from the worst. In 2003, the team won the division and looked set to end

Magical Mad Max Scherzer is back

July 6, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

Baseball is romantic, but there is little to no romanticism in insomnia. It is debilitating and puts one in a frame of mind something akin to zombification, if not total surrender. My insomnia, thankfully, is relatively transient. Like a roster

The Curious Case of Selecting an A’s All-Star

June 28, 2022 Brett Walker Baseball, Team Contributors

In recent weeks, the A’s social media channels, along with Glen Kuiper and Dallas Braden during the A’s game broadcasts on NBC Sports California, have been encouraging fans to vote on which A’s player should go to the All-Star game.