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10 Outstanding Individual Seasons in MLB That Nobody Is Noticing
It seems like an oxymoron. By definition, being outstanding means being prominent and standing out from the crowd. How, then, can an outstanding season go unnoticed? These 10 guys have pulled it off...
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Washington Nationals vs. SF Giants: Strasburg-Cain Live Score, Analysis
The first two innings weren't pretty, but both Matt Cain and Stephen Strasburg turned in seven-inning gems on Tuesday night. It was Strasburg's second consecutive game pitching at least seven innings and allowing just one earned run...
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Updated Win/Loss Projections for Every MLB Team at the One-Quarter Mark
Nobody's perfect. Few things in life are less worth the paper they're printed on than preseason predictions. But we all make them for the same silly reason that we all bought Powerball tickets on Saturday...
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10 MLB Players Who Need to Be Sent Down to the Minors
At a certain age the minor leagues transform from a learning tool to a death sentence. I believe that age is 27. If you're 28 or older and still getting the bulk of your at-bats or innings in the minors it might be time to hang up those cleats...
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MLB Power Rankings: Re-Ranking All 30 MLB Rotations at the 1-Quarter Mark
Let's briefly travel four months into the future. It's the last week of September. Your team is in a three-way tie for the final playoff spot with five games left to play...
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What We've Learned About Each MLB Team at the One-Quarter Mark
Preseason predictions are so six weeks ago. With roughly 25 percent of the MLB regular season now in the books, it's time to take a step back and figure out something we've learned from each team...
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10 MLB Stars Officially Entering Their Decline Years
When players are young, they bounce back from injuries and slumps like nothing ever happened. But there comes a point when those joints just don't heal like they used to. A point when the ball doesn't look as big or travel as far as in recent years...
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10 Eye-Opening Early Season MLB Stats
It's such a glorious time of year for MLB stat junkies. The season is 20 percent complete. That's a large enough sample size to legitimately extrapolate the numbers and come up ...
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The Most Underrated Player on Every MLB Team
Every team has that one guy. The guy who the die-hard fans love and appreciate even more than the big-name superstars. Underrated nationally, but adored locally. Maybe he doesn't make it into many SportsCenter highlights...
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Keys to Each Slumping MLB Superstar Turning Things Around ASAP
Slumps happen. Adam Jones had a stretch of 27 games last season in which he batted .271 with no home runs, one stolen base and 21 strikeouts...
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Free Agency Stock Watch for MLB's Top 25 Available Players Next Winter
Before you know it, champagne will be spraying, a new World Series champion will be crowned and the 2013 free agency period will be underway. It's not a particularly star-studded class this year...
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Predicting Return Dates for MLB's Most Crucial Injury Comebacks
Stints on the disabled list are as much a part of baseball as peanuts and Cracker Jacks. We not only care if our favorite players will ever get back, but how quickly they can recover from their various ailments...
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All 30 MLB Teams' Playoff Odds After 1 Month of Baseball
Maybe we aren't quite a full month into the season, but what better way to cap off a forward-looking week than with playoff odds? On Monday we tackled the contenders and pretenders ...
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Ranking the 15 Biggest Overachievers in MLB
Regression (n.) - a trend or shift toward a lower or less perfect state. A lot of guys have started the 2013 season on fire, but many of them will inevitably fizzle out...
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Contenders and Pretenders for MLB's Early Awards Leaders
There's an old, often-butchered saying in baseball that you can't win pennants in April, but you sure can lose them. The same goes for individual awards...
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Baseball's Most Overrated All-Time Careers, by the Numbers
It's the one thing in baseball that hasn't been calculated. Sabermetricians have become fluent in things like park factors, xFIP, ISO, BABIP, UZR and so on and so forth...
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Projecting Top 25 Overall Players in 2015
It's never too early to start thinking about next season or the season after that. Let's take a brief hiatus from the 2013 season and venture forward to 2015 to figure out who will be the faces of baseball two years from now...
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Assembling MLB's Most Unstoppable Lineup of Today's Players
It all comes down to one game. In a plot line akin to Space Jam, an alien race has come to Earth and challenged us to a game of baseball to determine the fate of our planet...
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How to Solve the Block vs. Charge Problem in College Basketball
You’ ve heard the saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” In sports, it’s more like: “If it isn’t causing a problem on the biggest stage, don’t worry about it...
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NCAA Tournament 2013: Winners, Losers, Heroes and Goats of the Elite 8
Congratulations to Louisville, Michigan, Syracuse and Wichita State—and a giant get well soon to Kevin Ware. After a topsy-turvy first few rounds, we've finally reached the Final Four...
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NCAA Tournament 2013: Updated Odds for Final 8 Teams
With only eight teams remaining, it's time for one more look at each team's odds of winning the 2013 NCAA national championship...
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NCAA Tournament 2013: Winners, Losers, Heroes and Goats of Day 7
And then there were 12. The NCAA tournament returned from a three-day hiatus with a pair of convincing upsets, an exciting last-second shot and a game between La Salle and Wichita State...
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NCAA Tournament 2013: Updated Odds for Final 16 Teams
We've reached the point in the season when truly anyone that's still standing can win it all. What was once a pipe dream necessitating six (or seven for La Salle) consecutive wins is now just a realistic four-game winning streak away...
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Ranking the 6 Most Overrated Teams in the Sweet 16
Over the course of the next few slides, I’ll be making a lot of suppositions, observations, accusations and predictions. What I will not be making are friends...
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NCAA Tournament 2013: Winners, Losers, Heroes and Goats of Day 5
Eight games on Saturday means eight teams advance to the Sweet 16 while another eight head back home wondering what could have been...
