2015
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Yonder Alonso: Late Bloomer or Lame Duck?
Earlier today, the Oakland A's traded pitchers Drew Pomeranz , Jose Torres , and a player to be named later to the San Diego Padres for first baseman Yonder Alonso and reliever Marc Rzepczynski . Initial reactions lean…
Warming Up the Hot Stove
For fans of teams that didn't partake in serious contention of a title, and that's most teams, this is their favorite time of year. They say Opening Day brings optimism, but it's really the hot stove league that can…
2015-16 MLB Free Agent Tiered Rankings
Credit: Bruce Hemmelgarn/Getty Images At the moment, I believe the top free agents to be Jason Heyward , Yoenis Cespedes , David Price , Zack Greinke , Justin Upton , and Alex Gordon . That would be my top tier,…
2015 MLB Award Ballot
Voters shouldn't allow postseason performance to skew their voting for regular season awards. With the same caution we now present our 2015 MLB Award Faux ballots... No-one was hurt in the making of these choices.…
MLB Starting Pitching Trade Market
This started off as a simple tweet about Andrew Cashner's career FIP as a starter. As you can see, it became much more than 140 characters, when we wanted to add the context of other starting pitchers who have been…
Kung Fu Panda and Red Sox Angst
Photo by Brandon Wade / AP Unclogging our writer's block... On twitter this Sunday afternoon, the legendary Michael Schur bemoaned how much the Red Sox owe Pablo Sandoval : “Don't worry, Sox fans -- we only have to pay…
Yankee Prudence
"Hal Steinbrenner" by Paul J. Bereswill Living in New York for most of the past decade, it's easy to pick up the rhythms of the metropolis's professional sports teams. It's well known the Yankees have changed since the…
2015 Hall of Fame "Suspense"
There's a lot of talk about the suspense surrounding tomorrow's announcement as to who will get inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this Summer. Unfortunately, I'm not really on the edge of my seat on the matter.…
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