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Crash Course: Rumors, Trades from Tuesday-Wednesday

Jul 26, 2018

Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions, Rumors

Christmas in July is in full swing for rumor hounds, as there have already been a ton of rather large swaps over the past few weeks. Since my recap on Monday, we have seen Zach Britton traded to the Yankees, Se...

Crash Course: Round-Up for July 17-21

Joe Orsatti

Jul 22, 2018

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions, Rumors

This summer has seen the action pick up considerably earlier than it usually does, as four trades went down over the past week. Let's go over them, and the smaller things that may have flown under your radar in...

Crash Course: Rumors, Transactions Over the Weekend

Joe Orsatti

Jul 16, 2018

Headlines, Major League Baseball, Rumors, Transactions

There Goes My Childhood Chase Utley will be hanging up his spikes at the end of the season. My favorite player of all time, and a legitimate hall of fame candidate, Utley currently carries a .231/.313/.331...

Crash Course: Round-Up for July 10 and 11

Joe Orsatti

Jul 12, 2018

Headlines, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

The MLB Trade Deadline is like a puzzle with 1,000,000 pieces spread out over the Twitter-sphere. While it is easy to find the pieces, finding places that piece the puzzle together is nearly impossible, especia...

Crash Course: Weekly Round-Up for June 25-July 2

Joe Orsatti

Jul 4, 2018

Headlines, Major League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Transactions

Welcome to another edition of Crash Course. With the deadline just over four weeks away, rumors are beginning to pick up, making the news quite a bit more interesting. Here is your chance to catch up on all of ...

Crash Course: Weekly Round-Up for June 19-25

Joe Orsatti

Jun 27, 2018

Major League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Rumors, Transactions

Welcome to another edition of Crash Course! We are now just over a month away from the trade deadline, and should see rumors and news ramping up over the next week or so. As always, hat tip to FanGraphs, Baseba...

Crash Course: Weekly Round-Up for June 11-18

Joe Orsatti

Jun 18, 2018

Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Transactions

Welcome to another edition of crash course! We are nearing the trade deadline and rumors should start to begin flying soon, however, we had a relatively slow week, mainly centered around injuries. My updated pr...

Crash Course: Weekly Round-Up for June 3-10

Joe Orsatti

Jun 12, 2018

Headlines

It was quite a crazy week in baseball, as over 1100 young men were drafted into the league, two relatively large-scale trades went down and a bunch of other roster moves and deadline chatter occurred. Here's yo...

Crash Course: Weekly Round-Up for May 21-28

Joe Orsatti

May 30, 2018

Major League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Transactions

Happy Memorial Day, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Crash Course! We had an interesting week, with a pair of early deals, a PED suspension, a surprising DFA, and ton of waiver claims happening. Now...

Crash Course: Weekly Round-Up for May 15-21

Joe Orsatti

May 22, 2018

Headlines, Major League Baseball, Prospect Reports, Transactions

Hello and welcome to another edition of Crash Course! Apologies for the delay, however, while I typically don't have very much going on (this weekly post as evidence) I just started a full time internship this ...

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