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Early Look At Statcast For The 2018 Season

The development of Statcast has altered the way in which teams and fans can view the game of baseball. With in-depth information on components such as exit velocity off the bat, launch angle, and spin...

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Welcome to Sho-Time

Shohei Ohtani has been referred to as the Japanese Babe Ruth. Nearly every team in baseball made a pitch for him when he became available last offseason. He was baseball’s most talked about player...

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Crash Course: Trade Deadline Round-Up, Full Prospect Analysis

The Major League Baseball non-waiver trade deadline has come and passed. Wanna refresh your memory on what went down, and learn more about the prospects sent from club to club? Let’s begin. Andre...

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Jacob deGrom for Cy Young? Scratch That, Give Him the MVP

Awarding the Most Valuable Player Award to a pitcher has always been a controversial proposition. Only twice in the current decade has a pitcher won either of Major League Baseball’s two annual MVP...

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Major League Baseball Must Capitalize on this Surge of Young Superstars

Major League Baseball found itself in the spotlight for the first time since the 2018 World Series this past Friday night. The reason for it was the major-league debut of the renowned Toronto Blue Jays...

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Hit Man: D-Backs’ Tim Locastro Ties Record for Getting Plunked in a Game

The San Francisco Giants were getting shelled Friday night, and, as often happen in these affairs, an opposing batter could expect to “wear it.” So when Tim Locastro came to the plate in the seventh...

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Preparing for MLB’s 60-Game Season… for the Third Time!

In perusing Twitter while avoiding the real world, I stumbled across this fascinating tweet from John Thorn, the Official Historian for Major League Baseball: 2020 will not be MLB's first season with a...

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Busy Trade Deadline Makes the San Diego Padres National League Contenders

Before the trade deadline even came along, the San Diego Padres had been the talk of baseball. An electric, young offense led by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado have been putting up outstanding...

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