The Pirates are coming off a season to forget in 2020, finishing with the worst record in MLB at 19-41. Their moves this offseason have largely consisted of trading Joe Musgrove to the Padres a few weeks ago, and more
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AL Central preview: Win for the Windy City?
The American League Central is shaping up to be an intriguing division in 2021. In the truncated 2020 season, the White Sox slumped to a 2-8 finish which meant they just scraped into the playoffs along with the Indians, despite
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A goodbye to one of our own, thank you Steven Matz.
It was a busy Wednesday for the New York Mets, signing LHP Aaron Loup to a one-year deal (pending physical), officially announcing that Zack Scott would act as acting GM just a week after former GM Jared Porter was fired,
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What does 2021 have in store for the AL East?
It seems like a lifetime ago since I watched Blake Snell (and later Justin Turner for different reasons) slouch off the field at Globe Life Park in Arlington in Game Six of the World Series. It was the closest the
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Tampa Bay Rays: Warding off doom-mongers in 2021
I have been a Rays fan for over a decade. Every offseason is a carbon copy of the last. No matter how well the previous season has gone the Rays are constantly written off, constantly overlooked and yet almost every
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Trade speculation: Reds and Indians
Trade: Brad Hand to the Cincinnati Reds for RHP Joe Boyle Nearly everyone in Cleveland does not like Brad Hand in the closer role. I thought Cody Allen was tough to watch as a closer, but Hand has blown that
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Minor League experience with Major League enjoyment
As a baseball fan, I often looked at movies like Bull Durham and the like, and had a hankering to visit small-town America and go to a Minor League game. Like most sports, the real guts of it is not
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Forever blowing bubbles
The Major League Baseball season is becoming quite counterproductive at the moment. With all these positive tests popping up in several team’s locker rooms, how can MLB keep a competitive schedule? Major League Baseball has a problem on their hands.
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Tampa Bay Rays: 2020 World Series Champions?
If there’s one team that seems primed to take advantage of the anomalous 2020 MLB season, it’s the Tampa Bay Rays. The 60-game schedule and expanded rosters that are likely to define the forthcoming campaign play right into the hands
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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #4 Savannah Bananas
If you have not read my previous posts, I will give you a little background to my love of MiLB. I was diagnosed with terminal cancer back in September 2017, so decided
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