Welcome to the inaugural edition of our new ‘GIFs of the Week’ segment. Each week, for the entirety of the baseball season (or thereabouts), we are going to track down five brilliant, baffling or downright bonkers GIFs to share with
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Author: Ben Carter
Why that player on your team might be the MVP – NL West version
We made it! The final division! My deepest apologies to fans of NL West teams, waiting to see which players made the cut but better late than never right? If you are a fan of the Rockies or Padres, you
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Why that player on your team might be the MVP – NL Central version
We’re four divisions down with two to go, but yesterday, of course, was opening day. In my defense, I’m not sure any series I’ve ever written hasn’t overrun by at least a few days, but believe me when I say
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Why that player on your team might be the MVP – NL East version
Yesterday (March 31st, 2017), SunTrust Park opened its gates for the very first time, as the Atlanta Braves hosted the New York Yankees in an exhibition game to mark the start of a new era at the $1.1 billion ballpark. The
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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL East
The American League East hasn’t been home of many MVP’s in recent years. In fact, Josh Donaldson in 2015 was the first man from the Atlantic coast to secure the award since Dustin Pedroia in 2008. There was a time,
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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL Central
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Those are the prophetic words of Yogi Berra, supposedly, although he would later qualify this – and every statement he ever made – by claiming: “I really didn’t say everything I
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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL West
Hope springs eternal. So said Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man apparently, all the way back in 1733, presumably oblivious to the fact his off-the-cuff phrase would become a widely and popularly used idiom. This three-word saying has a
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