It is October, the Indians have once again made the postseason but failed to bring home the coveted World Series title and the ‘curse’ moves on another year. Many of the Indians players didn’t play to their potential in the
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Tag: American League
The Cy Young Case for Blake Treinen
The following is a case for why Blake Treinen should be considered as a Cy Young candidate. I am not certain if he should win but what I am about to detail is why he should get some votes and
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15 things you might not know about the American League so far in 2018
When you spend yours days looking through MLB stats for various things you start to find some stats about a few players and teams that are quite interesting. Most of these aren’t enough to flesh out into full articles but
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Will there be a Triple Crown winner this season?
There hasn’t been a Triple Crown winner in baseball since 2012, when Miguel Cabrera picked up the trophy, with a batting average .330, 44 home runs and 139 runs batted in. Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander were the last players
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Episode 77 – Divisional Chat (AL West)
Dom Clarke (A’s), Tom Young (Mariners), George Martin (Astros) and Nick Wright (Angels) join Darius on the second of our divisional roundtables to discuss the AL West, most notably whether the Mariners can push the Astros for the division, if
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If Baseball was Football – Part 1: American League
A big welcome back to the Baseball Brit, Joey Mellows… Major League Baseball is coming to the UK! The London Series has been officially scheduled for June 29th & 30th in 2019 and this has sent die hard MLB UK
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Fixing the 162
@Lez_Mets returns to talk about his other passion, Interleague play! I have posted a lot about this recently, so you’re probably thinking this dude is obsessed? Well you would be right, I am! Right now the Major League Baseball schedule
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Episode 75 – Divisional Chat (AL East)
Tom is joined by Matt Clough (Orioles), Mike Shipley (Blue Jays) and Rob Noverraz (Rays) to talk all about the AL East and the “exciting” division that it is. Matt starts us off and makes us feel like we’re kicking a puppy by making him talk about
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Player Profiles – The Splendid Splinter
This post by podcast guest Mark Blakemore,originally featured on Bases Loaded in 2014. Check out his other player profiles The Big Unit, and The Kid I once bumped into Ted Williams. Not figuratively or metaphorically but literally bumped into him. Our interactions
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Is Josh Donaldson Underrated?
Ben Carter asks a very valid question. When we think of underrated players in the game of baseball, the mind tends to go to guys with undervalued skills, whether that be defense (Kevin Kiermaier), plate discipline (Ben Zobrist) or durability
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