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Tag: Cleveland Guardians

Episode 302 – American League Offseason Review

January 7, 2023 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

It is two months since the last podcast! We can neither confirm nor deny that John McGee refused to pod until the Boston Red Sox made a positive move. John, Rob, Darius, and Russell are back from their temporary hiatus

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Episode 299 – Do Geese Have Ears?

October 22, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Russell, Rob and Ben get together to review an entertaining set of wildcard and division series that threw up some upsets and extra-inning marathons. They end with a quick look ahead to the Championship Series and Great Britain’s confirmed WBC

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Postseason 2022: Is This A Great Game Or What?

October 9, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

It was appropriate that the great Tim Kurkjian, whose catchphrase headlines this article, was in the booth for ESPN’s broadcast yesterday. We saw a couple of epic games. Diehard baseball fans had already enjoyed (or endured, depending on your point

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Playoff baseball and blackout U-turn

October 8, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

It’s Saturday 8 October, and I have just watched the delayed coverage of the Padres’ emphatic win over the Mets. Four Wild Card games are in the bag, and the visitors won three of them. As a neutral, this sets

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2022 Playoffs – What if the season finished today?

August 29, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

With around 35 regular season games remaining, let’s look at the playoff situation. As you will recall, the 2022 postseason is a new 12-team format comprising the six division winners and the three wild-card teams for each league. Wild Card

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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?

August 3, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The

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Stat kings: Early season stat leaders

May 12, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

With 30ish games in the books (120ish at-bats), we have enough data to give us a leaderboard for various statistical categories. HOME RUNS Aaron Judge is the only player with double-digit homers. The Yankees’ superstar, who becomes a free agent

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Episode 270 – 2022 AL Central Preview

April 14, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

The third of our 2022 Previews covers the AL Central. This time we are joined by: Janice Scurio of NBC Sports Edge and Southside Sox on the White Sox Mandy Bell of MLB.com on the Guardians Brandon Day of Bless

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30 BOLDish predictions: One for each MLB team

April 7, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

AL WEST Houston Astros Jeremy Pena debuts for the Astros and creates an unstoppable middle-infield pairing with Jose Altuve. Both players hit over .300, and there’s not a single banged trashcan to be heard. Los Angeles Angels Injuries disrupt Mike

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Wait! What? Yasiel Puig is a hero?

December 9, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Breaking News, Opinion

It is quiet out there. It’s times like this that I miss the never-ending flow of speculative drivel from major media outlets. There are no laughable Jon Heyman tweets. And no cringeworthy Bob Nightingale claims. Usually, at this time of

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