Tag: the best SF Giants 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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MLB 2020 Labor Day is Over—Time to Get to Work
Updated: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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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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“Playing Pepper” Brings the Heat to the 2020 MLB Season
Updated: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
Updated: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
Updated: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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The 2019 MLB Trade Deadline: Award-Winning Analysis and Some Other Stuff
Updated: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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A Critical Mid-Season Turning Point for the SF Giants and Farhan Zaidi
Updated: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
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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“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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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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National League Playoff Spots Will Be Hard to Come By in 2019
Updated:As we assess the moves made during the recent MLB Winter Meetings, and the many free agents still on the…
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A Giants Cove Exclusive! We Have the LA Angels’ Written Exam for Manager
Updated:Hold on to your authentic MLB-branded reversible ball caps! We recently got the news that the LA Angels of Anaheim…
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Let’s Take a Peek at the Seamy Underside of the National League
Updated:As we plunge headfirst into the National League Championship Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers, I ask…
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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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Ready for Another Shake-up Year in the NL West? Not So Fast
Updated:2017 was a paradigm shift season for the National League West. With both the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies under…
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One Brain-Dead MLB Debate Needs to Go Away in 2018
Updated:As we careen into the first several weeks of the 2018 MLB season, it’s a good time to address the…
Read more »The LA Dodgers and the Zen of Doing Nothing While Making Everything Happen
We recently reviewed a number of misleading offseason narratives being spun about each team in the National League West. Incorrect…
Read more »Playing Pepper 2018: When You Come to the Anniversary in the Road, Take It
This is the tenth year in a row that Daniel Shoptaw has coerced dozens of baseball bloggers to answer a…
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