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Fun With Numbers: Andruw Jones
I’m sorry, guys, but this ain’t it. Andruw Jones‘ case for the Hall of Fame is borderline at best. And he has no place in Cooperstown before other Braves-related unfinished business gets addressed.
Fun With Numbers: Mark Buehrle
In the premiere submission for Fun With Numbers, Bronx to Bushville co-founder Brent Sirvio’s 2020 IBWAA Hall of Fame Ballot series, we look at a pitcher whose numbers do not adequately paint a Hall of Fame pitcher. Mark Buehrle was …
There are no accidents: Exploring Tommy Harper’s 1970 season
Tommy Harper’s 1970 was, in the strictest sense of the term, a career year. How did a career average hitter become the first All-Star in Milwaukee Brewers history? Last month, the estimable Kyle Lobner — whose daily Patreon [mostly] on …
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The Show can’t go on
In its tone-deafness to this emergent moment in history, Major League Baseball has not only signaled its foolhardy and quixiotic intent to complete this season, it is also forfeiting its remaining sociocultural cache.
East Coast Bias: Urshela’s Meteoric Rise, Juan Show-To, Unlikely Contenders
AL East The Replacements, Part II Remember The Replacements? The movie about a football team that went on strike, so the owner hired a new coach to find replacement players a week before their first game? A perfect analogy this …
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MLB wanted to be a distraction. It can’t escape reality.
MLB imagines itself as a reflection of America. The first week of the 2020 season proved its fantasy in the worst way.
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Wait ’til next year: Why I can’t watch baseball in 2020
With the world in the midst of numerous crises, I can’t do this.
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Let’s call it what it is: Lockout
With the acrimony between Major League Baseball ownership and the Players Association reaching hull-crushing depths, and hopes for a 2020 season being eroded more and more by the leaked memo or letter, it’s time to stop seeing this as anything …
If you saw Achilles
Remembering the legendary Roy Halladay on the 10 year anniversary of Doc’s perfect game.