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Tag: Whit Merrifield

Underpaid Superstars. The Minimum-Wage Roster: Second base

January 8, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

What is it about second base? Why is it the position where teams take the most liberties about underpaying their player? It is possible that Braves’ second baseman, Ozzie Albies, has the worst contract in MLB. The 2021 World Series

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No one is talking about… Nicky Lopez

August 22, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

The Royals started the 2021 season in upbeat fashion having clinched the best record in the Cactus League, thanks to standout campaigns from Jorge Soler and Hunter Dozier. New signings Andrew Benintendi and Carlos Santana looked like key new pieces

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Isiah Kiner-Falefa not Dua Lipa is the decade’s singles superstar

June 12, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Foolishly, I thought Dua Lipa had the most singles since the start of 2020, but I was wrong. It is Isiah Kiner-Falefa. The 2021 season is now about as long as the one in 2020, so we have enough data

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Kansas City Royals 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 13, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

What happened in 2019? What was set to be a tough season got off to a terrible start in spring training when the Kansas City Royals lost their workaholic catcher, Salvador Perez, for the season after Tommy John surgery. The

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Three minutes on the Kansas City Royals

February 6, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Picture the scene. Kansas City Royals owner David Glass summons GM Dayton Moore and team manager Ned Yost into his plush, top floor office in Kauffman Stadium. He asks what they need in 2019 in order to accomplish the rebuild.

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Analytics and its effects on the MLB – The Stolen Base

November 3, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

This is the second piece in a series on the effects of analytics on baseball, the first on the bunt can be found here. This time I will be looking at the decline of the stolen base, the involvement of

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Blake’s Fantasy Free Agent Finds – 8-14 June

June 7, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Fantasy Baseball, Opinion

Back again for a second week, it’s Blake Finney… Hopefully after a few of you were able to grab some of the players I mentioned last week (even if two of them are now Day-to-Day *facepalm*), After another week of

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