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Teams in Arizona and Florida play with identical rules and before the same sort of audiences, but the two spring flavors are quite different. I don’t…
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OK, so the essential Baseball-Reference has yet another incredibly cool new feature called “Spans,” which allows you to take a look at a player or team…
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There is a rhythm that comes with rooting for bad teams. It is a rhythm that, by now, comes second nature to Pittsburgh Pirates fans. You start the…
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OK, so you might have deduced from the fun “What’s the best thing about baseball?” thread we did on Monday (seriously, check it out; the answers are…
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Why We Love Baseball (a list)OK, I did something on Twitter that seems to have taken off … so I’d like to do it here as well. It’s a question for you: What is the best thing…
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Five baseball things! Thing 1: Weird stuff happens when the Reds play the Pirates. As I wrote last week, the Reds pitching staff had a first month for…
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We continue with our weekly roundups of the next players in the Football 101—my personal countdown of the greatest players in pro football history…
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Today we ask the eternal question: What would happen if the Cincinnati Reds played the Detroit Tigers? (A) No runs would be scored forever and the game…
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Well, what do you know? It turns out that one pitcher CAN throw an actual no-hitter. On Wednesday, that pitcher was the Angels’ 22-year-old rookie Reid…
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If there’s one thing every New York Mets fan knows, it’s that you never celebrate too soon. That has to be the first lesson you learn at Mets School…
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For the first few months of Carlos Alcaraz’s life, the men’s tennis world was formless and empty. No fewer than four different players were No. 1 in the…
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PosCast ThreadMike Schur and I are PosCasting today (Sunday) at roughly 3 p.m. Eastern. If you have any questions, comments, odd thoughts, whatever, this is t…
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