The Marlins did it again this year. They had one of the best pitchers in the league but the offence was horrid. Last year it was almost a Rookie of the Year in the form of Trevor Rogers. This year,
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Category: Pinch Hitting
Oakland Athletics: 2022 Season review
That’s another season in the books for the Oakland Athletics. How to describe the A’s season? BFN editor Gavin has already described it as “dismal”, while another A’s fan privately said to me that this article would need to be
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San Francisco Giants: 2022 Regular Season Review
The San Francisco Giants entered 2022 with high expectations. Nobody said they were guaranteed to win 107 games again but there was a certain level of competitiveness expected. After the lofty heights of 2021, surely the Giants would be back
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Jason Heyward: The Cubs won the battle but not the WAR
Seven years on, it’s easy to forget that the Chicago Cubs’ decision to sign Jason Heyward to an 8-year, $184 million deal in 2016 was met with media fanfare. Jesse Rogers of ESPN described the outfielder as “an all-around player
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Boston: One heck of a sports town
I recently got back from a few days in the great city of Boston. Given the history attached to the ballpark, I made a point of going to a game at Fenway Park while I was there, taking in the
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San Francisco Giants: Everyone loves Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Flores is one of my favourite Giants. If you took a poll among Giants fans strolling through the gates of Oracle Park, I bet you they’d say something similar. Flores is undoubtedly a fan favourite these days, and over
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Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum
Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson
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San Francisco Giants: Joey Bart steps forward
When Buster Posey announced his retirement in November 2021, the stage was set for his successor to usher in a new era of Giants baseball. The man who would follow Posey was always going to tread a difficult path. How
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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story
Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even
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Using a Tank to Drive the Team to Vegas Perhaps? – Oakland A’s Mid-Season Report
The All-Star Game marks (roughly) the half-way point of the season for the MLB, so I thought I’d do a progress report on how the A’s are doing. Before the start of the season, I said in my season preview
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