With the excitement of the Mookie Betts arrival and the start of spring training (baseball, finally, after more than four months!) all in the past, the focus for the Los Angeles Dodgers now lies on the season ahead. With an
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Tag: Clayton Kershaw
LA Dodgers Spring Training: Early Impressions
Ah… spring training. A chance to get a taste of the new season! Teams are testing out their lineups, pitchers are tinkering with new pitches, and it’s a chance to see some new faces from the minor leagues, fighting for
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Stud Flop Bingo
Ryan Owen is the founder of RotoTrix – A UK based fantasy baseball rankings, advice and musing website. He is also unfortunate enough to be in the same TGFBI league as our own Tom Pringle. One of the things that
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Baseball chinwag with Scott White
Continuing our series of quick chats with our favourite characters in the baseball broadcasting and fantasy baseball world, we were very pleased to get the opportunity of a few minutes with CBS Sports’ Senior Fantasy Writer, Scott White. My love
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How to measure a pitchers overall performance?
The question of how good someone is at a task extends beyond baseball. In professional sports where there are now very large sums of money involved in player development and contracts, it has become a question people want to be
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How to Silence the Commentators by Craig Counsell and the Brewers
A few hours before the 4.5 hour long 4th game of the ALCS — and the ensuing outrage over fan interference — the general baseball populace, and more specifically the commentators on FS1, were dumbfounded when Craig Counsell and the
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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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Appreciate Clayton Kershaw while you still can
No team this year has been more beset by injuries than the Los Angeles Dodgers, and no one injury has weighed on the team more heavily than that of their ace Clayton Kershaw. His latest setback, coming immediately after his
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What’s an Ace?
Steve from Bush League Ramble makes his debut to look into the world of a teams “Ace”. It is a term you hear all the time, and probably use all the time, too. But have you ever stopped to evaluate
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T20 Baseball: Solving Baseball’s Greatest Problem – Less Time, More Action
Chris Brown thinks MLB should take a leaf out of T20 cricket’s book… Right, Rob Manfred are you listening? Pace of play is the number 1 issue that us Brits have with the game apparently, so in advance of the
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