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Tag: Max Scherzer

Build A Perfect Franchise: Not As Easy As You Think

January 14, 2023 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

The premise is simple; create the perfect baseball franchise from scratch. The idea was suggested by The Athletic’s MLB senior managing editor, Sarah Goldstein, but bizarrely, she did not invite Bat Flips & Nerds to participate, instead favouring The Athletic’s

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Magical Mad Max Scherzer is back

July 6, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

Baseball is romantic, but there is little to no romanticism in insomnia. It is debilitating and puts one in a frame of mind something akin to zombification, if not total surrender. My insomnia, thankfully, is relatively transient. Like a roster

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Los Angeles Dodgers 2022 Team Profile: Part 1 – Expectations

March 30, 2022 Freddie Law-Keen Baseball, Team Contributors

As a Dodgers fan, offseasons of the past can most commonly be remembered for big additions and signings rather than losses. This is not something most teams have the luxury of, looking at you Reds fans. While all fan bases

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How Steven Matz’s Agent Landed The Mets Max Scherzer

December 11, 2021 Alex Worth Baseball, 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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How Andrew Friedman and the Dodgers have approached the offseason

December 7, 2021 Freddie Law-Keen Baseball, Opinion

With the curtains drawn on the 2021 season, the uncertainty of the offseason sets in. This offseason, however, carries more uncertainty than the MLB community has experienced in a long time. The Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between MLB and the

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2021 MLB Free Agents – This article will be out of date before you read it

November 29, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

What a weekend! Let’s take stock. Before we start, remember that all 30 teams (even the Pirates) are working overtime to sign free agents before the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires on Wednesday 1 December. This article will probably be

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A decade of baseball in 101 useless stats

January 13, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

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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NL Wild Card game preview

October 1, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

The Cardinals emphatic victory over arch-rivals Chicago Cubs on Sunday night, clinched the NL Central division title to set up a five-game NLDS against the Atlanta Braves, starting on Thursday 3 October. The result means the win-or-go-home NL Wild Card

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Why are the Yankees so tight?

July 18, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

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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An Analytic Glance at the first “Half”

July 14, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

We have just started the second “half” of the MLB season. The reason for the air quotes is that the definition of half a season in MLB is determined by if a game was played before or after the All-Star

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