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Tag: Colorado Rockies

Episode 304 – National League Offseason Review

February 2, 2023 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

Russell, Darius, Ben and Gav continue the Bat Flips & Nerds review of the offseason but this time for the National League teams. Each team is given a grade based on the traditional 80-20 baseball grading scale. Listen to “Episode

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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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Episode 272 – 2022 NL West Preview

April 14, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

In our penultimate preview we cover the NL West, joined by: Zach Buchanan of The Athletic on the Diamondbacks Thomas Harding of MLB.com on the Rockies Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic on The Dodgers A Mystery Padres Guest Susan Slusser

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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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Boston Red Sox – A New Chapter For Story

March 24, 2022 Richard Banks Baseball, Team Contributors

The Boston Red Sox have signed former Colorado Rockies shortstop Trevor Story. The contract is six years, $140 million or seven years, $160 million depending on a player opt-out after the fourth season, which the team can negate by adding

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Love or Hate the Sister Cities idea, we have Three Enticing Combos for you

February 6, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

The ambitious plans from the Rays franchise to play half of their home games in Florida and the other half in Montreal, Canada, are dead in the water. However, Tampa Bay Rays owner, Stuart Steinberg, thinks they are ahead of

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Episode 232 – Rowdy Tellez’ Big Round Face

May 1, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

John, Ben and Rob are joined by Jon Mackenzie of Absolute Bunts for this week’s MLB Roundup. They cover the Rockies firing of Jeff Bridich, gambling in baseball and the incredible Jacob DeGrom before offering ‘Two Bad, Two Good’ garlands

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San Francisco Giants: Compliments to Crawford

April 13, 2021 Ash Day Baseball, Team Contributors

Brandon Crawford arrived at the Giants’ Oracle Park with the warmth of the morning sun on his shoulders. It was a beautiful day for San Francisco’s home opener as they hosted the Colorado Rockies to begin a three game series.

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Episode 225 – Tim Melville Joins the Show

April 7, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Podcast

The newest member of baseball’s no-hitter club – Tim Melville of the CPBL Uni-Lions – joins us fresh off his 142 pitch history maker on Good Friday. We talk about his route to the Majors with the Reds, Twins, Padres

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Colorado Rockies: Spring Training Battle

March 16, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Colorado Rockies: First base Last season, first base in Colorado was occupied by the now-retired Daniel Murphy (29 games), Josh Fuentes (26 games), Ryan McMahon (12 games) and Drew Butera (5 games). Amazingly, they were not the worst team in

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