With awards season done and dusted and qualifying offers accepted or rejected, we’re about to launch into MLB offseason ‘proper’, a long and generally tedious period of rumours, agent statements and – of course – Passan bombs. So let’s take
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On Sunday 4 April 2010, Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Josh Beckett induced weak contact from New York Yankees Derek Jeter in the first MLB play of the decade. Here are 100 more useless snippets of information for you. Unless
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There are many reasons why the Oakland Athletics continue to fail to win the World Series during Billy Beane’s tenure. One much-talked about suggestion is that the postseason is a “crapshoot”. Randomness has a bigger influence over the short 5-game/7-game
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Excitement for the MLB London Series is growing. In a matter of days, the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees will face each other at the revamped Olympic Stadium in Stratford. We continue the Bat Flips and Nerds player
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In keeping with the All-Star theme this week, and as somewhat of an activity to take my mind off the fact that there’s no baseball until Friday; I’ve written two pieces on my All-Surprise and All-Disappointment teams of the first
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Kurt Wilks (@KurtWilks) has recently returned from the Bronx, where he (A Cardinals fan) watched the New York Yankees tackle Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers. Read all about him breaking his baseball virginity. As a St Louis Cardinals fan
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