Tag: SF Giants
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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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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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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Four Prescient Takes on MLB Opening Week 2021
/1. Let’s First Answer Baseball’s Most Pressing 2021 Global Questions Will the Baltimore Orioles lose 100 games in 2021? No,…
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SF Giants Playing Pepper 2021: The Unedited Director’s Cut
/I can’t swear to this, but there’s a rumor that high up in the rafters of Busch Stadium in St….
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Tales of Candlestick Park: When Tommy Lasorda Roamed Free
/The news of Dodger legend Tommy Lasorda’s sad passing last January brought a remarkable flood of stories and remembrances surging…
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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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“Playing Pepper” Brings the Heat to the 2020 MLB Season
/There is no spicier MLB blog series in the greater sports webisphere than “Playing Pepper” from the esteemed Daniel Shoptaw….
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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…
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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…
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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How Peter Magowan Saved The San Francisco Giants
/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”
/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
/The recent news that team spending on Major League Baseball payrolls decreased by $18 million in 2018 compared to 2017…
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National League Playoff Spots Will Be Hard to Come By in 2019
/As we assess the moves made during the recent MLB Winter Meetings, and the many free agents still on the…
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SF Giants: Two Iconic Stars, Two Critical Questions to be Answered
/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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