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2022 Retrospective Series – Baltimore Orioles

December 2, 2022 Russell Eassom Baseball

The Baltimore Borioles are no more. This team was predicted to be the worst in the league but not only did they end up over .500, they were a genuine contender for a wild card spot.  They changed their stadium

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2022 Retrospective Series – Tampa Bay Rays

November 29, 2022 Russell Eassom Baseball

The Rays failed to outperform the projection for the first time in quite a while. They are usually ever-present over-performers due to their roster construction method being difficult to predict and their ability to pull relievers out of nowhere. This

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2022 Retrospective Series – Toronto Blue Jays

November 26, 2022 Russell Eassom Baseball

The preseason predictions for Toronto were spot on but that was just the Blue Jays living up to the performance of 2021 (91-71) and not making the 2022 leap forward that fans hoped for. Record: 92-70 (2nd AL East) Preseason Projected

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2022 Retrospective Series – New York Yankees

November 25, 2022 Russell Eassom Baseball

On the surface you would say this was a good season for the Yankees, they comfortably won the division which wasn’t the prediction of many pundits going into the season. But it ended in a sweep to their new arch-rivals

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Jason Heyward: The Cubs won the battle but not the WAR

October 5, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

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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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story

July 22, 2022 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

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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Home Run Derby X: Revisiting Geovany Soto’s incredible rookie year

July 7, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

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

July 6, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

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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Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets

June 21, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

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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The Chicago Cubs do not have the resources necessary to compete in 2022

June 20, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

I’ll admit that I felt a degree of optimism when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts wrote to fans back in October, stating “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them.” Like the bulk

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