The infield shift is a much-maligned defensive strategy, hounded as one of the worst analytics-based changes to baseball. Multiple times each season there will be some conversation about banning the shift and each time pros, ex-players/managers, commentators and analysts will
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Welcome podcast contributor and Rays fanatic Rob Noverraz to the B&N blog… A couple of nights ago I watched the Rays and the Twins grind into a 15th inning after 6 and a half hours of play and I had
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“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Those are the prophetic words of Yogi Berra, supposedly, although he would later qualify this – and every statement he ever made – by claiming: “I really didn’t say everything I
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