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Understanding Advanced Baseball Stats: Hitting

Feb 24, 2015

Fantasy, Features, Headlines, Opinions & Predictions

"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand." ~ Leo Durocher Durocher, a 17-year major league vet and Hall of Fame manager, sums up the game of baseball quite brilliantly in the above quote, and it'...

Current Players That Would Represent Today’s MLB Mount Rushmore

Nick Schaeflein

Feb 16, 2015

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

On Monday the country will be celebrating Presidents' Day. It will also be a time for celebration among baseball fans because by the end of the week pitchers and catchers will be reporting, and the start of the...

Why Josh Donaldson Lost His Arbitration Hearing

Shawn Brody

Feb 14, 2015

American League, Contract, Major League Baseball, Toronto Blue Jays

On Saturday, newly-acquired Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson lost his first arbitration hearing. Being a Super Two, Donaldson will have at maximum three more attempts through the arbitration proce...

Are NFL Woes A Boon For Baseball?

Kevin Pittack

Feb 3, 2015

Features, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

Baseball has always gone through phases, eras, and iterations with both clear and arbitrary lines of delineation to separate them. One can point to the Dead Ball Era, the post-war Golden Age of the game, the ad...

Top 10 Players Under The Age of 25

Tyler Fiedler

Jan 23, 2015

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

With several teams attempting to get younger and maintaining top prospects to rebuild, we are taking a look at the top 10 players under the age of 25. In order to be elected for the top 10, the player must be u...

Balancing Baseball’s Past, Present and Future

Kevin Pittack

Jan 20, 2015

Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions

Far too often, in contemporary culture, we don’t allow ourselves to enjoy the here and now, what is directly under our noses. People walk the streets, sit in packed stadiums, at movie theaters, and in parks wit...

Josh Willingham retires after eleven seasons

Shawn Brody

Nov 24, 2014

Headlines, Kansas City Royals, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Offseason, Washington Nationals

After 11 Major League seasons, Josh Willingham has decided to call it a career. The 35-year old outfielder told ESPN.com about his retirement Monday morning, saying that “After praying on my decision many times...

MLB News: Angels’ Mike Trout wins American League MVP

Baseball Essential

Nov 13, 2014

Headlines, Los Angeles Angels

Mike Trout has finally been given the hardware for being the best player in the American League. The 23-year-old showed all around achievements to edge the Detroit Tigers' designated hitter Victor Martinez and ...

Baseball Needs a New Face, But Whose?

Kevin Pittack

Oct 20, 2014

Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants

Beneath bright lights he shines as the brightest star in the midst of a nascent dynasty, a talented player in one of the nation’s largest cities and with an avid fan base that in the recent past identified with...

Giancarlo Stanton NL MVP?

Jacob Seus

Sep 2, 2014

Headlines, Miami Marlins, National League, National League East

On Tuesday, the New York Mets defeated the Miami Marlins but more importantly Giancarlo Stanton went 2 for 4 with a home run and I’m not positive but I don’t think it has landed yet. If Giancarlo Stanton isn’t ...

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