I absolutely love watching a dedicated closer pitch. The sheer drama that goes with it is, to my mind, fantastic. It becomes a baseball game in a microcosm almost, with the result boiled down to a single half-inning (I know it
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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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San Francisco Giants: Compliments to Crawford
Brandon Crawford arrived at the Giants’ Oracle Park with the warmth of the morning sun on his shoulders. It was a beautiful day for San Francisco’s home opener as they hosted the Colorado Rockies to begin a three game series.
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Fantasy Baseball Invitational : Brutal Week One
Wow, that was a pretty horrific start to the Bat Flips & Nerds Fantasy Baseball Invitational #BFNFBI. An 11-day scoring period to start the season in which you cannot make lineup changes. Injured players clogging up lineup slots and bench
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Wait … what if Tyler Naquin is the new José Bautista
In his first six years in the big leagues, Joey Bats was a below-average outfielder, hitting .238 with 91 OPS+ (100 is league average). In his first five years in the big leagues, Tyler Naquin was a below-average outfielder, hitting
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Let’s get tipsy: Reflections on the Mariners opening series of 2021
There’s a magnificent James Acaster routine (I mean, all James Acaster routines are magnificent, but there’s a particular one that is relevant here) about drinking that I was thinking about over opening weekend. “There are four things you can be
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Miami Marlins: (Almost) Everything hurts
I googled “greatest pain in the world” and for my surprise Miami Marlins baseball team offence was not on the list. It had cluster headache, frozen shoulder, broken bone, heart attack etc but I guess the writer of the article
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Fantasy Baseball Friday: Week Two Waiver Wire Adds
Apologies to those who play in a league where the first matchup period was 1 April through 4 April and next week is technically your week three. But we’re calling the upcoming scoring period week two to fit the more
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Everyone loves a list – the opening week
The first seven days are in the books. And man, what an opening week we enjoyed. Here is all of the information you need to know in 30 bullet points ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS: Ketel Marte leads the NL with 12 hits
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The Unofficial MLB Player Championship
There are many ways to determine who is the best player in a sport right now, especially baseball, but most are fraught with debate on which methods and stats are better. There are a few major sports however which generally
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