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Adrian Gonzalez Has to Capitalize on New Opportunity to Rejuvenate Career

Mar 25, 2018

Features, Major League Baseball, National League, New York Mets

Over the past year, Adrian Gonzalez has gone from being an every day player on a World Series contender, to a cheap veteran that the New York Mets hope is low risk, high reward. In June 2017, Gonzalez was pl...

Report: Mets Sign Adrian Gonzalez

David Barclay

Jan 13, 2018

Headlines, Major League Baseball, National League, National League East, New York Mets, Offseason, Transactions

Adrian Gonzalez is reportedly returning to the East Coast to continue his Major League Baseball career — the New York Mets and the first baseman, according to multiple reports, agreed on terms on a contract, ac...

Dodgers, Braves Complete Five-Player Salary Dump Trade

Jason Kelly

Dec 16, 2017

Atlanta Braves, Breaking News, Headlines, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, National League, National League East, National League West, Offseason, Transactions

The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves have just completed a big five-player trade, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The deal sends Matt Kemp back to Hollywood in exchange for Adrian Gonzalez...

Cody Bellinger is Trying to Force the Issue

Jeff J. Snider

May 2, 2017

Features, Headlines, Los Angeles Dodgers

After his first three games in the big leagues, Los Angeles Dodgers top prospect Cody Bellinger looked like he wasn't ready for prime time. He was hitting .100/.250/.100, with his lone hit a squibber to thi...

Dodgers Designate Carl Crawford for Assignment

Hawkins DuBois

Jun 7, 2016

Headlines, Los Angeles Dodgers, Transactions

Four years ago, Carl Crawford was run out of town by the Boston Red Sox, thanks to a severe lack of productivity and an enormous amount of money on his contract. In 2010, Crawford made his fourth All-Star Ga...

What if Anthony Rizzo Never Got Traded?

Evan Marinofsky

Apr 1, 2016

Features, Opinions & Predictions

With the season looming in the coming days, I'd like to start my own recurring weekly series. Of course I will still write a lot of other opinionated pieces, but this is just something I'd like to try out and s...

2015 Roberto Clemente Award nominees announced

Nick Delahanty

Sep 14, 2015

Breaking News

On Monday afternoon, Major League Baseball announced the thirty nominees for the 2015 Roberto Clemente Award. Each year, all thirty teams are allowed to nominate one player for the award Each season, Major L...

MLB Power Rankings: June 29th

Will Gribin

Jun 29, 2015

Opinions & Predictions

Happy Monday, sports fans! Lots of changes in my power rankings this week, but sadly no big jumps. Only nine teams had no movement this week, four of which are the top four (which doesn’t seem to be changing an...

No Offense, Jimmy, But It’s Time For You To Roll On The Bench

Gabriel Bogart

Jun 26, 2015

Features, Los Angeles Dodgers, National League West, Opinions & Predictions

It seems, lately, that every time I look up at a Los Angeles Dodgers’ score it’s a feast-or-famine situation. They’re either losing 11-3 (May 24th to the San Diego Padres) or thrashing the rival San Francisco G...

Split Decision: Major League Baseball Splits Thus Far

Shawn Brody

Jun 9, 2015

Features

So I had this idea the other week. Not the kind taken straight from a comic book where I become a madman take over a city. No, no, the kind where I become a madman and try to periodically update the rankings fo...

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