In this final part of my season preview, I will predict the awards for the season for both the Dodgers and the rest of the MLB. So let’s wrap up these predictions and see how many I get right after
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Tag: Juan Soto
So you think you know the 2020’s?
You probably know that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. scored the most runs last season and Freddie Freeman was the highest run-scorer in 2020. But do you know who crossed home plate more than anyone else over the two years of this
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The Best player in MLB is not in this photo
This article is not an argument over the MVP awards. I have no problem with Bryce Harper getting the nod ahead of Juan Soto in the NL. And I was definitely on the Shohei Ohtani side of the argument ahead
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The Nationals have less than 48 hours and one task – sell.
Under 48 hours to sell, a COVID outbreak and speculation galore – where do the Nationals go from here? The Nats are clearly a team in dire need of a rebuild at this point. A farm system that often sits
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Isiah Kiner-Falefa not Dua Lipa is the decade’s singles superstar
Foolishly, I thought Dua Lipa had the most singles since the start of 2020, but I was wrong. It is Isiah Kiner-Falefa. The 2021 season is now about as long as the one in 2020, so we have enough data
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Early season overachievers & underachievers
Early season numbers blah, blah, blah. Small sample size yadda yadda yadda. There have been hot starts – looking at you Tyler Naquin – and there have been cold starts, like Miguel Sanó with three hits in 48 plate appearances.
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Episode 221 – Jeff Passan Returns
Our mystery guest is unmasked! ESPN National baseball writer Jeff Passan returns to the podcast to chat about his two game-changing off-season stories on Drew Robinson and Jared Porter, to talk about what league led ‘ball tampering’ says about the
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The NL MVP Race Is Going To Be Fun
We always knew that the award races in a 60 game season would be wild. Plenty of columns were written in the run up to the season about the statistical possibilities that a 60 game season throws up, from a
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A decade of baseball in 101 useless stats
On Sunday 4 April 2010, Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Josh Beckett induced weak contact from New York Yankees Derek Jeter in the first MLB play of the decade. Here are 100 more useless snippets of information for you. Unless
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The Nationals are going to be just fine, even though some guy left this offseason
If you’re vaguely aware of baseball and somehow missed the fact that the Washington Nationals lost some guy whose name rhymes with Nice Sharper this offseason, that’s actually pretty impressive. But you-know-who, who spent seven great years in D.C., signed
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