Before the season starts, and no matter what sport you watch, there are always crazy trade rumours. Sometimes they are crazy because they are so unbelievable and some of them are just mean. The media links a beloved former player
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Category: Pinch Hitting
San Francisco Giants: Could Luis González be Rookie of the Year?
It’s the top of the seventh inning and San Francisco ace Logan Webb is setting himself for his next pitch. Webb is in the midst of a gem; he hasn’t given up a run to the resilient Royals and his
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Five is Back – Part One: Hero to Heartbreaker.
A few months prior to the start of the season, rumours of Albert Pujols returning to St Louis began to swirl, and I surprisingly had quite a measured reaction. Now, as it’s just you and me here, I will be
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Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets
Here I am. The top deck (ahem, upper tier) at the London Stadium, watching the inaugural International Series game between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Me: ‘They make it look so easy.’ Friend: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ Me:
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The Chicago Cubs do not have the resources necessary to compete in 2022
I’ll admit that I felt a degree of optimism when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts wrote to fans back in October, stating “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them.” Like the bulk
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Miami Marlins: Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life
Jasrado Prince Hermis Arrington Chisholm is a superstar. He is a superstar not just for the Miami Marlins but also for the league. You might tune in to watch the Fish when Sandy Alcantara or Pablo Lopez is pitching, but
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San Francisco Giants: Joc’s homecoming in all-time classic
Bleary-eyed and rudely disturbed by my morning alarm, I reached for my phone to put an end to the insufferable noise. As I looked at the notifications flooding my screen, I realised something magical was happening in San Francisco. The
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Sometimes, baseball is much more than just a game
As I sit writing this, staring at the gloomy London skyline, worlds apart from the Newport Beach bench I was watching the world go by on last week, I am struck by the magnitude of what my Anaheim trip meant
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Early Season Narratives from a Month in Dodger Blue
The first month of baseball has already concluded, one down, five to go. Somehow it at once managed to fly by and completely drag on. The first week was full of surprises and joy, the second week full of optimism.
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Revisiting Jake Arrieta’s monumental 2015 season
In 2015, a year before they overcame the curse, the Chicago Cubs were, on paper at least, a bunch of scrappy outsiders. The hiring of Joe Maddon, the free agent signing of Jon Lester and the emergence of prospects like
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