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Tag: Major League Baseball

Revisiting Jake Arrieta’s monumental 2015 season

April 25, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

In 2015, a year before they overcame the curse, the Chicago Cubs were, on paper at least, a bunch of scrappy outsiders. The hiring of Joe Maddon, the free agent signing of Jon Lester and the emergence of prospects like

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Los Angeles Dodgers 2022 Season Preview: Catchers and Utility

April 1, 2022 Freddie Law-Keen Baseball, Team Contributors

Part three of my season preview and projection series will be examining the players behind the dish and the players that can pretty much play everywhere else. I will be looking at the starters, the role players, and the players

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Miami Marlins: Are they actually awfully good?

March 31, 2022 Tomi Korkeamaki Baseball, Team Contributors

I was scrolling through my Twitter feed one day when I came across this Jon Heyman tweet. Yes, the same ol´ Jon who a couple of years ago suggested in an MLB Network show that check swings should be an

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5 things you can do to catch up on the 2022 season

March 31, 2022 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Beginner's Guide, Learning to Baseball, Opinion

Each year I begin the season staring at Fangraphs (other baseball reference sites are available), wondering where all my favourite baseballists have moved to. I wonder which team will be winning 100-games and which team will be floundering at the

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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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San Francisco Giants: Joctober comes home

March 18, 2022 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

A little later than expected but here we are; baseball is finally upon us.  With the 2022 campaign now officially underway teams have been scrambling to upgrade and tinker with their rosters. We’ve seen a flurry of activity all over

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How Steven Matz’s Agent Landed The Mets Max Scherzer

December 11, 2021 Alex Worth Baseball, MLB UK, Team Contributors

A week before the lockout, which has frozen baseball transactions with no sign of a resolution, the Mets had just lost out on top pitching target Steven Matz, who chose St Louis over a return to New York. Mets COO

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Miami Marlins: testing the strength of my optimism

December 1, 2021 Tomi Korkeamaki Baseball, Team Contributors

I assure you I am as shocked as you with the fact that, when looking back at those hyped up early-season expectations for the Marlins, the Atlanta Braves are in fact the World Champions and not the Miami Marlins. Congratulations

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San Francisco Giants: Regular Season Review

October 7, 2021 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

Sat on my sofa shortly before midnight, I watched Dominic Leone strikeout Eric Hosmer to seal the Giants’ 107th victory and their first NL West title since 2012. Buster Posey, behind home plate, raised up from his squat with his

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Miami Marlins: it´s a Baseball catenaccio

August 6, 2021 Tomi Korkeamaki Baseball, Team Contributors

I am deeply sorry if this is too soon to make an Italian football reference after the England defeat in the Euro 2020 final against Italy. My country Finland made its debut in the Euro´s this year and has never

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