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Author: Blake Finney

Washington Nationals Bryce Harper

The Nationals are going to be just fine, even though some guy left this offseason

March 28, 2019 Blake Finney Baseball, Opinion

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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Introducing the replacement level WAR team

December 3, 2018 Blake Finney Analytics, Baseball

Nowadays, with the statistical generation and the people that Jayson Werth likes to call “nerds” taking over the game, we have a whole raft of numbers at our disposal. But one always seems to take the biscuit and is used

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Ken Rosenthal Peter Gammons London Series

Ken Rosenthal and Peter Gammons weigh in on the London Series

June 30, 2018 Blake Finney London Series

We’re now less than a year away from Major League Baseball being played on English soil. It’s a really exciting time to be a British baseball fan. And one excited British baseball fan, in particular, got to canvas the opinion of

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Running up the score in baseball is okay. Seriously

June 16, 2018 Blake Finney Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Running the score up in baseball is an unwritten rule that has many different interpretations across the league. When should or shouldn’t a team be attempting aggressive plays to try and score more runs, when leading by a significant amount?

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The Rizz-ard of WAS extends deal with Nationals

April 10, 2018 Blake Finney Baseball

Even if it resulted in this irresistibly terrible pun, the news that the Washington Nationals extended Mike Rizzo’s contract is a great way to kick-off the season for the NL East powerhouse. Since becoming General Manager in 2009, the Nationals have

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Way Too Early Fantasy Sleepers

February 20, 2018 Blake Finney Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

It’s every Fantasy Baseball players favourite time of year. The yearly ESPN Fantasy Baseball maintenance! The Superbowl is over (as a Redskins fan I’m disregarding the result..), which means Pitchers and Catchers start reporting to Spring Training in the next

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Is the Price Right For Bryce?

January 12, 2018 Blake Finney Baseball

As the Hot Stove seems to be giving everyone the chills so far this off-season with the lack of activity (other than a few short moments, thanks to Jeter); a lot of attention has been turned to what could be

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Blake’s Free Agent Finds: 24 – 30 August

August 24, 2017 Blake Finney Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

After a few weeks off, I’ve shown up just in time for Fantasy Baseball squeaky bum time, with Rotisserie Leagues set to head into the final month, and Head-to-Head leagues almost at playoff season. So I’ve returned to give you

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Fantasy Trade Deadline Winners/Losers

August 4, 2017 Blake Finney Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

I don’t know if you knew or not, but I have just gotten back from a fairly low-key holiday (I didn’t post about it much) from the US, so my articles have had a little two week break. But I’m

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Fantasy First Half All-Disappointment Team

July 13, 2017 Blake Finney Baseball, Fantasy Baseball

In keeping with the All-Star theme this week, and as somewhat of an activity to take my mind off the fact that there’s no baseball until Friday; I’ve written two pieces on my All-Surprise and All-Disappointment teams of the first

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