It is rare in baseball that the scripted Hollywood ending really happens. The rules of the sport make it statistically improbable: unlike in the NFL, or NBA, you cannot be sure that the ball will be in the hands of
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Author: Ben Carter
Where Would You Put An MLB Expansion Franchise?
Ah yes, the age-old question. It has been 25 years since the latest expansion in Major League Baseball, the longest stretch of stability since 1952 – when the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee to kick off a crazy decade of
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Rating Every MLB Manager Based On How Much I Would Respect Them As A Teacher (American League)
If I’m honest, I lost my passion for baseball a bit over the last 12 months and I don’t really know why. Sure, personal life gets in the way sometimes, but I also got lazy. I stopped following the news
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Ranking The Top 10 Spring Training Storylines
This week, pitchers and catchers flock to Arizona and Florida as baseball once again awakens from its deep, long slumber over winter. Nothing beats those sounds of pitches smacking gloves and sights of pristinely kept fields baking in the early-year
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Won’t Somebody Think Of The Umpires
Man vs machine. A battle as old as time. Or at least as old as machines. Robot umpires have been a part of the baseball conversation for several years now, as increasingly reliable PITCHf/x and Statcast data gives us immediate
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One Move Every Team Should Make This Winter
With awards season done and dusted and qualifying offers accepted or rejected, we’re about to launch into MLB offseason ‘proper’, a long and generally tedious period of rumours, agent statements and – of course – Passan bombs. So let’s take
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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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The Rockies are exactly who we thought they’d be… but also not at all
About a week ago, I had a whole ton of words written up about the Rockies hot start and why even regression would be unlikely to keep them from a postseason spot given the shortened length of the season and
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BAT FLIPS DOES BASEBALL EPISODE FOUR: MAY AND JUNE
Apologies for the delay but fear not, because we are BACK with the next instalment of our ‘Bat Flips does Baseball’ series, where members of the UK baseball community are transplanted into the 2020 Major League season to see if
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Bat Flips Does Baseball Episode Three: April
After the excitement of the pre-season roster selection and a rollercoaster Opening Day, reality has set in for our two British-based expansion teams as they quickly settled into the grind of everyday baseball. Let’s see where things stand on May
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