I recently got back from a few days in the great city of Boston. Given the history attached to the ballpark, I made a point of going to a game at Fenway Park while I was there, taking in the
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San Francisco Giants: Everyone loves Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Flores is one of my favourite Giants. If you took a poll among Giants fans strolling through the gates of Oracle Park, I bet you they’d say something similar. Flores is undoubtedly a fan favourite these days, and over
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Apropos of nothing: The PED All-Star lineup
There are many reasons why I hate drug cheats but mainly because they fuel my scepticism of exceptional sporting performances. I don’t want to doubt the legitimacy of Shohei Ohtani‘s brilliance or Edwin Diaz‘s resurgence, or Aaron Judge‘s power surge,
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Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum
Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson
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San Francisco Giants: Joey Bart steps forward
When Buster Posey announced his retirement in November 2021, the stage was set for his successor to usher in a new era of Giants baseball. The man who would follow Posey was always going to tread a difficult path. How
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London Series: Cardinals and Cubs to play in MLB London Series 2023
Hold on to your hats, folks. MLB has confirmed that the two teams competing in the 2023 London Series are… drumroll… the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals. The two games will take place on 24-25 June 2023, marking
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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?
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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Remembering Vin Scully, broadcasting legend
On a day where the baseball world anticipated, celebrated, and mocked blockbuster trades before the deadline, including Juan Soto to San Diego, some sadder news cut through the noise: Vin Scully, the long-time Dodgers play-by-play announcer widely considered one of
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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story
Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even
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San Francisco Giants: Carlos Rodón, the All-Star
When the Giants announced the signing of Carlos Rodón in March their fanbase celebrated in unison. Joyous arms were raised above heads across the land simultaneously. This was the sort of marquee purchase the club should be making on a
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