Around the majors report: Stats report
Lee Sinins is the creator of the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia, the most powerful baseball encyclopedia on the market. 1) Yesterday, the Giants completed a 3 game sweep of the Dodgers, with all of the...
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Lee Sinins is the creator of the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia, the most powerful baseball encyclopedia on the market. 1) DODGERS 8, BRAVES 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E - - - - - - - - - - -- - Braves 0...
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Peter Gammons: The Importance of First-Round Draft Picks
When the 2015 draft convenes a week from Monday (on MLB Network), conventional thinking labels this a down pool; deep, but not laden with any immediate impact stars. The primary reason is that college...
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It doesn’t matter how old a batter is, he’ll still strike out
23 year-old Kris Bryant has 131 strikeoutsLast season, 317 players struck out at least 50 times, the most in the history of baseball. That broke the record of 304 in 2013. That broke the record of 296...
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Where Addison Russell’s Power Came From
The Chicago Cubs are baseball’s hottest team, and when you’re baseball’s hottest team, people start talking about why you’re baseball’s hottest team. For Joe Maddon and company, two things doubtlessly...
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With Cole Pitching Wild Card Game, Bucs Aren’t Merely Arrieta’s Next Prey
With the Pirates no longer in the running for the NL Central crown, a pall has seemingly been cast over PNC Park. Sure, the Bucs are playoff-bound for a third straight season — a once-unfathomable...
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2015 RBI Leaders by Batting Order Positions and by Innings
Whatever team ends up with Chris Davis (19) can expect late inning heroics from him Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports Nine to Know: RBI Leaders by Batting Order Position* Leading off – Mookie...
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Peter Gammons: Blue Jays’ time is now, Trayce Thompson, and more spring notes
There is 2016, when the Toronto Blue Jays can—and really need to—go back to the world series. And there is 2017 and beyond, when the trades Alex Anthopoulos made to bring back 1993 for the city, the...
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Peter Gammons: 2016 pre-season predictions
It is one of those years when one wonders if the traditional order has shifted. The Cardinals and the Cubs are the game’s greatest rivalry, not the Red Sox and Yankees; Boston has been a last place...
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Peter Gammons: Joe Maddon and managing human beings
MESA, Ar.—It was between games of a day-night doubleheader in Pittsburgh last September, and as we sat together in the visiting manager’s office between games, Joe Maddon summed up his managerial...
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