Tag: MLB blogs
Why the Team with the Best MLB Record is Getting No Respect
Updated:If the Los Angeles Dodgers, or New York Yankees, or even the Houston Astros had the highest win total by…
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The SF Giants Get a Big Boost Thanks to the 2021 MLB Schedule
Updated:I don’t know if the guy who originally created the 2021 MLB season schedule was given money, land or cattle…
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Four Intriguing MLB Stories I Can’t Get Out of My Head (#1 & #2)
Updated:In the great swath of legendary MLB history and statistical oddities there are certain tales that grab us by the…
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MLB Joins a World Turned Upside Down by the COVID-19 Tsunami
Updated:Major League Baseball may have shut everything down just in the nick of time. On March 11, 2020 Washington Post…
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How the SF Giants Are Turning Their Broken Farm System Around
Updated:When, you might wonder, was the last time the San Francisco Giants had four players on Major League Baseball’s Top…
Read more »Why the World of the San Francisco Giants Got Blowed Up Real Good
Updated:As we move through the 2020 MLB pre-season, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi continues to clean…
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The Only Guide You Will Need for the 2019 MLB Wild Card Games: Free Version
Updated:As Milwaukee and Washington prepare to play the NL Wild Card game later today, it’s instructive to note that few…
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Truly Epic MLB Playoff Wars Building in the NL and AL Central Divisions
Updated:It’s usually around mid-August when the global Major League Baseball picture starts to come into sharper, more precise focus. As…
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The SF Giants Serve Up a Delicious Problem
Updated:The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed…
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In the SF Giants Dugout the Veterans are Leading by (Worst) Example
Updated:With the recent embarrassing outburst by demoted San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Derek Holland criticizing his team’s leadership, the discord…
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The SF Giants and the First Rule of Holes: Just Stop Digging
Updated:After the first three weeks and 20 games into the 2019 season, the San Francisco Giants appear on the surface…
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For the SF Giants “Rebuild” Doesn’t Begin to Describe What’s Happening
Updated:The San Francisco Giants are definitely not rebuilding. Because a “rebuild” suggests that there was something worthwhile there in the…
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“Playing Pepper” Adds Spice to the 2019 MLB Season
Updated:“Playing Pepper” is back. Despite the best efforts of science to stop its virulent spread, Daniel Shoptaw’s annual review of…
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2019 MLB Teams: False Positives and Completely Wrong Negatives
Updated:Every year we get all worked up about the success or failure of various MLB teams, based on what we…
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The SF Giants: Smoke, Mirrors, and Bryce Harper
Updated:One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper….
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How Peter Magowan Saved The San Francisco Giants
Updated:With the death yesterday of Peter Magowan, a principal member of the SF Giants ownership group, the story of how…
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Debunking Two Losing MLB Strategies: The “Open Window” and Having a “Core”
Updated:We often hear the following tired clichés when baseball commentators, front office executives or field managers are talking about the…
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The Real Business of Baseball: Managing the Revenue Revolution
Updated:The recent news that team spending on Major League Baseball payrolls decreased by $18 million in 2018 compared to 2017…
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SF Giants: Two Iconic Stars, Two Critical Questions to be Answered
Updated:The addition of new President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi doesn’t change the difficult immediate outlook or profound long-term challenges…
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SF Giants Turn an Era-Ending Double Play
Updated:Right now it’s difficult to envision the full effect of the San Francisco Giants’ recent hiring of former Dodgers General…
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The Biggest Challenge for the SF Giants is Changing their Culture
Updated:When San Francisco Giants Chief Executive Officer Larry Baer announced on September 24th that the team’s General Manager Bobby Evans…
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Misleading and Irrelevant MLB Stats Still Roam the Earth
Updated:You would think the sports section of a metropolitan newspaper would use modern analytical statistics to support their Major League…
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It’s Time for a Revolution in Baseball Broadcasting
Updated:2018 has been another tremendous Major League Baseball season, featuring great division races, elite-league teams, young superstar players and dramatic…
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The Myths About MLB Player Injuries Are Alive and Well in 2018
Updated:Once again this season we’ve heard the same tired cliched comments about MLB player injuries: > “Wow is it me…
Read more »Who’s Leading the War Against Baseball? Amazingly, it’s Former MLB Players
Updated:We live in a time when ideology is more important than our basic institutions. When traditions and foundational beliefs are…
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2018 SF Giants Poised to Spiral into NL West Obscurity
Updated:As we complete the first full week after the 2018 All-Star Break, there’s a lot to suggest that the current…
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Two National League Teams with Opposite Opportunities to Reboot
Updated:It’s odd to think of the 2018 New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers as being in similar situations as…
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The 2018 MLB Trade Deadline: What the SF Giants Will Do — What they Should Do
Updated:After the first 69 games of the 2018 season, the San Francisco Giants are 34-35, in third place in the…
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SF Giants’ Farm System: A Cluster of Hype and Myths
Updated:What do you do when your MLB team’s organizational ratings have been in the bottom 20% of all thirty teams…
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