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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Category: Team Contributors
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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San Francisco Giants: Carlos Rodón, the All-Star
When the Giants announced the signing of Carlos Rodón in March their fanbase celebrated in unison. Joyous arms were raised above heads across the land simultaneously. This was the sort of marquee purchase the club should be making on a
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Home Run Derby X: Revisiting Geovany Soto’s incredible rookie year
While the last decade was unquestionably one of the best in the entire history of the Chicago Cubs, the one that preceded it was far from the worst. In 2003, the team won the division and looked set to end
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Magical Mad Max Scherzer is back
Baseball is romantic, but there is little to no romanticism in insomnia. It is debilitating and puts one in a frame of mind something akin to zombification, if not total surrender. My insomnia, thankfully, is relatively transient. Like a roster
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The Curious Case of Selecting an A’s All-Star
In recent weeks, the A’s social media channels, along with Glen Kuiper and Dallas Braden during the A’s game broadcasts on NBC Sports California, have been encouraging fans to vote on which A’s player should go to the All-Star game.
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Five is Back – Part Two: Heartbreaker to Hero?
Before the season starts, and no matter what sport you watch, there are always crazy trade rumours. Sometimes they are crazy because they are so unbelievable and some of them are just mean. The media links a beloved former player
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San Francisco Giants: Could Luis González be Rookie of the Year?
It’s the top of the seventh inning and San Francisco ace Logan Webb is setting himself for his next pitch. Webb is in the midst of a gem; he hasn’t given up a run to the resilient Royals and his
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Five is Back – Part One: Hero to Heartbreaker.
A few months prior to the start of the season, rumours of Albert Pujols returning to St Louis began to swirl, and I surprisingly had quite a measured reaction. Now, as it’s just you and me here, I will be
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Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets
Here I am. The top deck (ahem, upper tier) at the London Stadium, watching the inaugural International Series game between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Me: ‘They make it look so easy.’ Friend: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ Me:
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