But most importantly for our purposes, spring training projections can be evaluated because history tells us at least 70 percent of October’s participants have been identified. MLB’s 10-team postseason is only four years old, but from 2012 to 2014, a minimum of seven of the 10 teams slotted for the playoffs at the All-Star break […]
Continue readingThe past three months, baseball has given us 1,000 reasons to hate it. In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the players and owners have acted like petulant children bickering over money, settling scores and improving bargaining position for future negotiations instead of understanding that all that mattered this year was agreeing on something and […]
Continue readingShowalter and Duquette, whose contracts expire at the end of October, will not return in 2019, the team announced Wednesday night. Showalter took the helm during the 2010 season, while Duquette was hired as general manager after the 2011 campaign. “The club decided they weren’t going to renew my contract at the end of the […]
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