Day: January 30, 2023
Why K-Rod Should Be a Hall of Famer
The 2023 MLB Hall of Fame voting has concluded, adding another year where a closer has not entered the Hall. In all of the years of the Hall of Fame, only eight closers have been inducted. In no particular order, the eight closers are Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Trevor Hoffman, Mariano Rivera, Lee […]
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Alex Colomé is a Good Potential Bounceback Candidate for the Nationals
With the Lerner family exploring a potential sale and the Nationals still in the early stages of the rebuild, Mike Rizzo has had to operate throughout the free-agent market with a limited budget. They’ve targeted veterans on the market who could serve as steady placeholders until top prospects graduate from the minors. The hope also […]
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Rocket City Trash Pandas 2023 Preview
The Trash Pandas are the Angels AA team residing in Alabama. Their home field is Toyota Field in Mobile. Their record last year was 81-57, and they lead their division. The Trash Pandas’ current roster is pretty loaded with prospects that are very high on the top 30 list of the Angels’ minor league system. […]
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Why Mark Buehrle Should be in the Hall of Fame
Mark Buerhle is a one-of-a-kind pitcher as a matter of efficiency and consistency while still reaching an incredibly high peak. There are a multitude of reasons why he belongs in the Hall of Fame, so for the purposes of this article, we’re going to split it up into two categories: anecdotally and statistically. In other […]
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Can Pirates Mitch Keller Build Off of his Impressive 2022 Season
As Pirates right-hander Mitch Keller came up through the system, the Cedar Rapids native was always seen as a highly touted prospect. After being drafted in the second round of the 2014 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, Keller was primed to be the face of that next wave of Pirates pitching in Pittsburgh. After being […]
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The Hot Stove lights up
After a very quiet offseason, the Royals have flipped the script and players twice this week. First, Michael A Taylor is heading to the Twins, and Adalberto Mondesi is heading to Boston. Let’s look at what each side is getting. For Boston, they are getting a guy whose debut was in the 2015 World Series! […]
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The Yankees’ Chase for Improvement
Did the Yankees do enough to close the gap? The 2022 American League Championship Series was over in four games. The eventual World Series champions, the Houston Astros, swept the New York Yankees. It was a pathetic performance by the Yankees, who only managed to score nine combined runs in the series, with over half […]
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