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2020 MLB Opening Day lineups for every game
Baseball is back for a very unique 2020 MLB season. Not sure who is starting for your team? We’re tracking batting orders from across the majors, including the first NL games since the universal DH was adapted for the season. Check back for updates as teams announce their Opening Day starting lineups for all of […]
Continue readingKBO’s Sung-Bum Na wants a big league career twist: ‘Watching MLB on TV made me have bigger dreams’
Those thoughts initially had little to do with the opposing pitcher. Na realized the day marked the one-year anniversary of his career-saving surgery. He recalled being placed on a stretcher and eventually driven off the field in an ambulance, wondering if he would ever play baseball again. “My injury was really serious, so coming back […]
Continue readingWorst betting seasons for every MLB team over the past 20 years
The MLB season is still on hold, so in the meantime, we thought we’d take a look at each team’s worst betting season over the past 20 years (based on one-unit bets). Here are the worst betting seasons for each team from the past 20 years, courtesy of research from ESPN Stats & Information. 2018: […]
Continue readingHow to optimize your fantasy baseball roster
While it’s true that the majority of your competitive chances in a given season hinge upon the success of your draft, your management of your team in-season more often than not proves the determining factor in your final standing. For a real-life parallel, the draft is like purchasing a house; the remodels, repairs and maintenance […]
Continue readingShin-Soo Choo donating funds to Rangers minor leaguers
Rangers veteran Shin-Soo Choo is helping out financially strapped minor league players with the season on hold, giving $1,000 each to 191 of them who are in the Texas organization. Choo, 37, said Wednesday that he remembers the financial struggles when he was in the minors. The outfielder-designated hitter hopes the gifts will help ease […]
Continue readingExpert league: Tout Wars mixed roto league auction
Then I went and did exactly the opposite. This is no reflection of how I felt about Tristan’s valued recommendation. If the prices were more to my liking, perhaps I would have done what pretty much everyone else did. There are myriad ways to build a championship fantasy roster in an auction format — although […]
Continue readingRangers SS Elvis Andrus takes aging distinctions into 12th season
The only player left in the Texas Rangers clubhouse to wear that uniform in a World Series, the 31-year-old shortstop is the club’s longest-tenured player by five years and expected to be the oldest regular starting shortstop in the majors. “I still believe I’m a rookie,” Andrus said Monday, when the Rangers had their first […]
Continue readingThey secretly replaced Yankee Stadium … and other lies we can prove using real stats
But the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he had a large enough sample size. Baseball statistics can keep lying all year long, if you let them. A whole season of stats, across the entire league, can still tell a lie or two. What follow are lies. We repeat: They are […]
Continue readingThe best and worst free-agent signing of the decade for all 30 MLB teams
What we can do is check back on the 2010s on how free agency worked — or didn’t work — for all 30 franchises. For each team we’ll list the total dollars committed in free agency (starting with new contracts for the 2010 season, not including money carried over from previous deals), where they ranked […]
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