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Five Stat Friday: Week Six
1. Maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s the prices. Maybe broadcasts have gotten that good. No matter what it is, attendance is down around baseball. Baseball is averaging 28,884 people per game this...
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Week in Review: Five Fascinating Statistics
1. By now you have heard about Mookie Betts‘ incredible week. It was not even a week, actually. Betts hit five home runs in a span of seven at-bats on Tuesday and Wednesday against the Baltimore...
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The Curious Case of Michael Pineda
The New York Yankees have not been very good this season. Their lack of success has a lot to do with their lackluster offense, but Michael Pineda‘s struggles this season have also played a significant...
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Week in Review: Five Fascinating Facts
1. What happened to the art of stealing bases? The current stolen base per-game average in baseball this year is 0.50. If that held throughout the rest of the season, it would be the lowest mark since...
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Mid-Week Review: Five Fascinating Statistics
1. Alexei Ramirez is on this list for all the wrong reasons. He signed a one year, $4 million dollar contract with the San Diego Padres this past offseason and it seemed to be a low-risk, high-reward...
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Mid-Week Review: All-Star Week Edition
1. Brandon Guyer isn’t a name you hear very often, but he currently has been hit by a pitch a major-league leading 20 times this season. Since 1901, only 81 times has a player ever been hit at least 20...
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Red Sox Acquire LHP, Drew Pomeranz, from the Padres
The Boston Red Sox are back at it again. With still over two weeks until the trade deadline, The Red Sox have just completed their third trade of the month by acquiring All-Star pitcher Drew Pomeranz...
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Cubs Acquire Aroldis Chapman from the Yankees
It has long been debated whether the New York Yankees would be sellers at the deadline for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century. The full answer to that question remains to be seen, but...
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Blue Jays Acquire Melvin Upton Jr. from the Padres
It was inevitable that the San Diego Padres were going to deal Melvin Upton Jr. before the trade deadline. The only question was where Upton was going to land. It seemed to come down to the Toronto...
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Alex Rodriguez Deserves to Play this Week
Alex Rodriguez is supposedly retiring after Friday’s game in Boston. I say supposedly because I am not buying that Friday will be Rodriguez’s last game. I am buying that it will be his last game as a...
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Looking back: Yankees made right moves despite elimination
Last night, the New York Yankees season once again ended without a postseason victory, as they lost to the Houston Astros in the AL Wild Card game, 3-0. The Yankees have not won a postseason game in...
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Report: Yankees Likely to Pursue Jeff Samardzija
The Yankees off-season started prematurely after their 3-0 defeat to the Houston Astros this past Wednesday. The Yankees have a lot of decisions to make this winter, including whether to target an ace...
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Memo to Fans: Enjoy the Game
I have noticed a certain trend this postseason, maybe it is because of Twitter, which gives everyone access to unlimited opinions, but there seems to be a lot of complaining this postseason. Just...
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Report: Masahiro Tanaka has Bone Spur Removed
The Yankees announced today that their ace, Masahiro Tanaka, underwent surgery to remove a bone spur from his elbow. Mark Feinsand of the NY Daily News reported that this was a pre-exisiting condition...
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Exclusive Interview With Chris Antonetti
Chris Antonetti, President of Baseball Operations for the Cleveland Indians, was nice enough to grant me a fifteen-minute phone interview on Monday morning. Antonetti has worked in the Indians...
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What O-Swing% Is And Why It Matters
O-Swing% – the percentage of swings at pitches outside of the strike zone – has seen a serious rise over the past thirteen seasons. In 2002, the league average of O-Swing% was 18.1%. In 2015, O-Swing%...
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Oakland Athletics’ Offseason Wishlist
Credit: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images The baseball offseason is here. The time of the year where the leaves are falling and Billy Beane is turning tricks. Famous for his “Moneyball” method, Beane has been one...
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Report: Braves in talks to deal Andrelton Simmons
The Braves have clearly committed to rebuilding and their next move to continue this process could be on the horizon. According to Jonah Keri, the Atlanta Braves are in deep talks with an NL West team...
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Top 5 Free Agent Bargains
Credit: Brad Mills/USA Today Sports Every offseason, teams are searching for that diamond in the rough. We all know that guys like Jason Heyward and Justin Upton are All-Stars who will certainly earn a...
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Why Robinson Cano to the Yankees Makes Sense
Nearly two years ago, Robinson Cano did the unthinkable. He left New York for a bigger contract. He went after the money and was rewarded with a ten-year $240 million dollar contract from the Seattle...
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