How are you surviving without baseball in this mad world at the moment? It is tough. Before all of this Covid-19 madness, I didn’t know I needed that baseball fix in the morning in my life this much, just like
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Category: Pinch Hitting
An Ode To Mike Zunino
It’s hard to write about baseball when there’s no baseball happening. I’ve spent at least two hours today trying to think about how to make the fact the 2020 Seattle Mariners sent some players you’ve never heard of back down
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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #2 Montgomery Biscuits
Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery Biscuits If you missed my first episode about the Macon Bacon, let me give you a bit of background. I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in September 2017 and immediately made a bucket list
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Mets Lose Noah Syndergaard to Tommy John Surgery
Well, if you didnt think the situation regarding baseball could get a whole lot worse, it just did. It was announced on Tuesday evening that Mets starter Noah Syndergaard has torn his ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and
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From Human Rain Delay to The Mule: the rise of Pedro Baez
The story of Pedro Baez is a pretty impressive one. Here we are talking about one of the key bullpen elements of one of the perennial top teams in baseball, and yet his path to where he is now is
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An education in legendary Cleveland Indians
The baseball world has hit the pause button in light of the recent coronavirus situation. As sports fans everywhere brace themselves for suspended or cancelled seasons, we turn to each other (not physically though – stay home folks), and we
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It’s more than the baseball I miss about baseball
I set out with the intention of writing an article about how I miss baseball, and I do really miss baseball. But then I realised it’s not baseball I miss, at least not just baseball, it’s sport. I really miss
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Toronto Blue Jays: How to sabotage the AL East
[Note: Whilst drafting this COVID-19 has put the entire upcoming MLB season in serious doubt. Whilst the following may not even be relevant now and feels kind of pointless given the seriousness of the pandemic, I hope this post at
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The least fun part of baseball is watching people play it
In light of the recent suspension of just about everything enjoyable in life, the idea of re-watching classic MLB games to “ease the pain” has come up a lot in social media discussions, and I’ve realised something I didn’t expect.
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The NeverEnding Story IV: The Boston Red Sox Investigation
What do the dates 12 November 2019 and 7 January 2020 have in common? It was 12 November that the Athletic broke the story about the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, a few days after which Major League Baseball announced a
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