Tag: Richard Dyer The Giants Cove
Why Hall of Fame Controversy is Good for Baseball
/As we rant, rave and gnash our teeth on the eve of the annual National Baseball Hall of Fame induction…
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Dramatic Changes Coming for MLB’s Two Most Powerful Divisions
/As the 2021 off-season kicks into cruising gear, Major League Baseball’s two top power Divisions will shift into super-overdrive to…
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Dodgers and Giants Can Resurrect a Faded Rivalry
/Over the next (potentially) seven days the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers will meet in the best of…
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Giants and Dodgers Finish the 2021 Season In a Grudge Match Free For All
/There likely will not be folding chairs flying between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers and the teams…
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Why the Team with the Best MLB Record is Getting No Respect
/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 West Coast is Poised to Become MLB’s Next Perennial Power Center
/Major League Baseball’s most dynamic history can be found in the geography of franchise domination. Nothing illustrates this better than…
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The SF Giants Get a Big Boost Thanks to the 2021 MLB Schedule
/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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Diving Deep into the 2021 SF Giants at the 20-Game Mark
/After the first twenty games played at the start of the 2021 season, the San Francisco Giants have a 13-7…
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The Short 2020 MLB Season Finishes Long on Drama
/The historic 2020 Major League Baseball regular season ended with an exciting down-to-the-last-strike horse race in the National League and…
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MLB 2020 Labor Day is Over—Time to Get to Work
/This week most Major League Baseball teams have passed the 40 game two-thirds point of this most unconventional and paradigm-changing…
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The 2020 MLB Season: History Happening in Front of Our Eyes
/Major League Baseball just kicked off the 2020 season and by any measure it will be highly watchable, utterly unique,…
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Four Intriguing MLB Stories I Can’t Get Out of My Head (#3 & #4)
/3. Picking Off Three Runners for Three Outs: The Ultimate in Theft Prevention Sometimes you find out that a cool,…
Read more »Four Intriguing MLB Stories I Can’t Get Out of My Head (#1 & #2)
/In the great swath of legendary MLB history and statistical oddities there are certain tales that grab us by the…
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The 1972-1995 MLB Labor Wars: 24 Years of Strikes and Lockouts (part 2)
/The MLB Labor Wars Part 2: Prelude to Labor-Armageddon 1990 Season – Baseball Owners Swing and Miss from their Luxury…
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In the History of High-Tech MLB Cheating the Giants Were Pioneers
/For 19 years we’ve known that the infamous “Shot Heard Round the World” winning home run in the 1951 National…
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How the SF Giants Are Turning Their Broken Farm System Around
/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
/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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Flash: The Rest of the NL West Won’t Wait for SF Giants to Get Better
/When San Francisco Giants ownership hired Farhan Zaidi to be the team’s President of Baseball Operations last off-season, the franchise…
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Truly Epic MLB Playoff Wars Building in the NL and AL Central Divisions
/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 2019 MLB Trade Deadline: Award-Winning Analysis and Some Other Stuff
/The recent MLB trade deadline is being described in terms of what the Big Three franchises did or didn’t do…
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The SF Giants Serve Up a Delicious Problem
/The 2019 menu for the San Francisco Giants looked to be pretty well laid out. This season they were supposed…
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A Critical Mid-Season Turning Point for the SF Giants and Farhan Zaidi
/The Major League Baseball landscape in San Francisco is a contorted mishmash as we pause at the All-Star break to…
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A Short History of MLB Stats: Here’s Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
/No other professional sport on planet earth is more defined and illuminated by statistics than Major League Baseball. As the…
Read more »In the SF Giants Dugout the Veterans are Leading by (Worst) Example
/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
/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
/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
/“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
/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
/One way or another the San Francisco Giants intend to get a piece of superstar free agent outfielder Bryce Harper….
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