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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East Coast Bias Week one: Showtime
Harper mashes, deGrom deals, and the Orioles and Rays start strong in this week’s inaugural East Coast Bias.

Jose Fernandez and confronting the fallacy of longevity
On the two-year anniversary of the incomparable pitcher’s death, emotions from the day still ring true.
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The rich get richer: Why we don’t like the New York Yankees getting Giancarlo Stanton
“The Yankees are talented, well-developed and returning to the form with which we’re all familiar. It’s a great team and, for the first time in a long time, for the outsider, they’re likeable. Give Cashman credit: he’s reinvented himself in …
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The New York Yankees and Giancarlo Stanton: An Offer Cashman Couldn’t Refuse
When the New York Yankees were eliminated in Game 7 of the American League Championship series, it was quite clear the team didn’t necessarily need any major changes. There was youth up and down the roster — whether that be …
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Giancarlo Stanton, Coping Mechanism
Coping with the unthinkable would take the extraordinary. Giancarlo Stanton delivered.