We tend to think of a baseball team as 25 guys. A group that hardly changes from Opening Day to securing a World Series championship seven months later. In reality, we find four dissimilar stages for the modern World Series contender. Which tends to leave fans discombobulated and ticket-purchasers angry. This is how “one team” […]

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An important part of fantasy sports leagues is how it brings a fan improved awareness of the players — particularly those on his or her team. Some “owners” even do a sort of scouting of players — just like the professionals! Huston Street of the Los Angeles Angels was the third of four relief pitchers […]

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If you’re going to be an ass in dealing with a visiting team … perhaps you first should make sure your case is watertight before you launch on your taunting. A Mets fan, maybe 14, 15 years old, reached over the railing in left field to catch a long fly ball hit by Mets infielder […]

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Brothers in Major League Baseball … not at all unusual, as this massive story makes clear. MLB brothers having big years in the same season … quite a bit more unusual, and MLB brothers also having very similar big seasons … even more rare. Looking, in this case, at the Seager brothers, Kyle and Corey. […]

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The two players voted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America were formally inducted today in Cooperstown, New York. Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza had long and productive careers and their numbers indicate they deserve a place in baseball’s ranks of immortals. But my personal recollections of the two […]

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Some will see Chris Sale as the typically spoiled baseball millionaire who must always have his way, blah, blah, blah. I, however, believe the Chicago White Sox ace left-hander has struck a blow for dignity for the on-field employees of his team by refusing to wear the 1970s “leisure suit” throwback uniform in a game […]

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No, really. Sometimes we know things before someone in the advanced-metrics community produces the numbers that tell us so. Mike Trout is really, really good, and his Angels teammates are really, really not good. Anyone who watches the Angels for a weekend (or follows the club’s boxscores for a week) could have deduced that. But, […]

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According to the old story, if you toss a ball at a non-American, he will try to stop it with his feet. If you throw a ball at an American, he likely will catch it in his hands. I have not played catch in a very long time. Certainly, not since before leaving for Abu […]

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In one category, anyway, the Los Angeles Dodgers are No. 1 in Major League baseball. That would be in spending money on players. Not that it has led to any noteworthy successes on the field. Their last championship, as well as their most recent National League pennant, was in 1988. That was so long ago […]

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It’s the time of year for frustrated ballplayers (21 and older, who have a few thousand dollars in cash lying around) … to sign up for the annual Dodgers Fantasy Camp! Here is the announcement of the 2017 camp, to be held January 15-21, and formally known as the Dodgers & White Sox Fantasy Camp, […]

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