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Tag: Trevor Bauer

A month in baseball. MLB Review: May 2022

June 4, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Indulge me with five minutes of your time, and we will review the month in MLB together. Which team led MLB with 46 homers? Full marks if you said the Milwaukee Brewers, just ahead of the Los Angeles Angels with

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Wait! What? Yasiel Puig is a hero?

December 9, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Breaking News, Opinion

It is quiet out there. It’s times like this that I miss the never-ending flow of speculative drivel from major media outlets. There are no laughable Jon Heyman tweets. And no cringeworthy Bob Nightingale claims. Usually, at this time of

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What’s the point of the Mets?

September 5, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Steven Cohen bought the Mets in November 2020, having outbid singer/actor/producer Jennifer Lopez and her (then) fiancé, the former Texas Rangers shortstop, Alex Rodriguez. Cohen indicated a reversal of the existing Mets culture with the proclamation of “I want professionalism.

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MLB Barstool partnership. It’s genius… honest

August 11, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

When the news broke that MLB is in discussions with sports and pop culture blog, Barstool Sports, to broadcast games, many in the baseball world spat their coffee across the room, while others high-fived, craving the frat boy ‘n’ pickup

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Is free agent Trevor Bauer too divisive for a mega deal?

January 30, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Full disclosure: I love watching Trevor Bauer pitch. I don’t think there is another starter out there that I will actively make the effort to tune into his outings. He’s not the best, but he is compelling. I love that

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One Move Every Team Should Make This Winter

November 13, 2020 Ben Carter Baseball, Opinion

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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San Francisco Giants: Free agents in the Bay?

November 12, 2020 Ash Day Baseball, Team Contributors

Every club’s focus is fixed firmly on the 2021 season. Except maybe Dodgers fans, who are probably still hungover. The rest of us have already begun our free agent watch, or The Hot Stove as it’s commonly known, scrolling Twitter

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What is in the water in Ohio?

August 14, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Warning: Tenuous link ahead. A few years ago, the town of Flint, Michigan suffered a catastrophe when cost-cutting measures forced the residents in the General Motors-based city to consume lead-contaminated water resulting in death, disease and birth abnormalities. Political and

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Is this the end of an era for the Cleveland Indians?

January 28, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

In a recent tweet, fantasy baseball writer Scott White lamented that 21 of the 22 teams in his dynasty league were rebuilding. This sad state of affairs shows how easy it is for fantasy baseball players to throw in the

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September storylines to follow: Astros pitchers

September 7, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Hopefully, you caught the recent Bat Flips and Nerds podcast. The one with the famous four rambling on about subjects as diverse as Bob Carolgees, Heart of Midlothian defenders and Durham Uni’s student newspaper. If you haven’t already listened, you

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