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 …
Category: Miami Marlins
Christian Yelich is major boon to Brewers current, future outfield
While the rest of the league was sitting by the hearth, quietly contemplating the balance of expenditure and analytics, David Stearns was in the kitchen, his fingers on the dial of the burner, waiting for the temperature to be just …
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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.