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Mets and Pirates ring bell on 2022 trade season
Pirates sell high on veteran slugger to Pennant-chasing Mets
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The Curious Case of Juan Soto
Let the Soto Sweepstakes begin! As soon as Ken Rosenthal sent this Tweet, the baseball industry’s entire narrative on the eve of All-Star weekend was shifted to the young Nationals star, whose days in DC appear to be numbered. Soto’s situation is profoundly unique given his age, production, current salary, years of team control remaining,
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That time MLB nearly eliminated the Twins and Expos
In 2019, the Minnesota Twins won 101 games and broke the single-season record for home runs by a team, with 307. Across the way in the National League that same year, the Washington Nationals, who started the season 16–31, captured the Wild Card in the National League, ran through the favored Dodgers and not-so-favored Cardinals
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The day the Astros and Padres completed a 12-player swap in 1994: A Baseball-Reference story
Four months into baseball’s infamous 1994 player’s strike — a strike that saw the final 49 regular season games, playoffs, and World Series canceled for the first time in history — Astros owner Drayton McLane felt the need to cut costs. Nothing done during the strike would be officially ‘official’ until the season resumed, including
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That time I saw Tracy McGrady pitch
On May 22, 2014, the Sugar Land Skeeters, the newest team in baseball’s independent Atlantic League at just two years-old at the time, hosted the York Revolution at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas. Their starting pitcher, a 35 year-old, 6’8″ newcomer, finished his second-career start with a line of: 2.2 IP, 0 ER, 0
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Moises Alou, the Astro, was an epic fucking monster
Nowadays, former Major League outfielder Moises Alou is best-remembered by casual fans for his role in the Steve Bartman fiasco in 2002, when Bartman (and about 20 other people) attempted to catch a foul ball just as Alou raised his glove to try and snare it. As the ball bounced away from both Alou and
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Quote of the week
On getting released from his team, “They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.”
~ Bob Uecker
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