Spring training is underway but, as is the wont for the early stages, there’s a veritable pick’n’mix of pitchers being employed with no-one pitching more than a couple of innings at a time. While this approach gives everyone the chance
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Category: Pinch Hitting
San Francisco Giants: Believe in Farhan and the rebuild
In Farhan we trust With great success normally follows a rebuild, and in the Giants case, an extended period of success has given them a major uphill task of returning to the glory days. Enter Farhan Zaidi, a man with
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Boston Red Sox 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? After what was a record-breaking season for Alex Cora’s Red Sox, expectations were still high, with their only big loss in the offseason being closer Craig Kimbrel. The Sox didn’t live up to expectations, however, with
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Top performers from St. Louis Cardinals first spring training game
After a quiet offseason in St. Louis, there has been a lot of anticipation to see how this current roster does in the grapefruit league in 2020. But the top performers from the first spring training game are a mixture
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Los Angeles Angels 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? 2019 saw the Angels finish in fourth place in the AL West, with a 72-90 record, condemning the team to a fourth-straight losing season and regression from the previous two years that had seen them finish
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Me, myself and Baseball
Hello, hope you’re all well. This Blog is going to be a little bit different. I don’t know much about baseball yet. I mean I know what a homerun is and know how to get someone out. I know that
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Rube Foster: the Father of Black Baseball
This week it was a hundred years ago that a group of eight black team owners came together at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri, to talk about a possible national Negro League. The main instigator of these talks
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Texas Rangers 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? 2019 was a frustrating season of inconsistency. Finishing third in the AL West seemed fair, despite a promising start to the 2019 campaign. The lack of a consistent third baseman following the retirement of club and
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Los Angeles Dodgers 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? On the back of two World Series defeats, the Dodgers had their sights set on October as soon as Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado for the last out in Game Five of the 2018 World
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Colorado Rockies 2020: Reasons for optimism
What happened in 2019? 2019 was a season that Rockies fans would probably rather forget. Hopes were high that they could follow back-to-back playoff appearances in ’17 and ’18 (a franchise first) with another postseason run. Those hopes took their
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