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If you’ve been watching this year’s playoffs at all, it should be clear to you that the Blue Jays have been playing with a certain level of intensity. When you accomplish something like two walk-off, extra inning playoff wins in four games, you’ve definitely got momentum in your favor. The trio of Josh Donaldson, Jose…
Update: Giants advance to NLDS thanks to Go-Ahead 3-Run HR by Conor Gillaspie and CG-Shutout by Madison Bumgarner Final: 3-0 Giants San Francisco Giants @ New York Mets Starting Pitchers Giants Madison Bumgarner (226.2 IP, 2.74 ERA, 251 K) Mets Noah Syndergaard (183.2 IP, 2.60 ERA, 218 K) This game is certainly going to be a…
Update – Blue Jays defeat Orioles 5-2 on Edwin Encarnacion’s walk off 3 run HR Bottom 11th Baltimore Orioles @ Toronto Blue Jays Starting Pitchers Orioles Chris Tillman (172.0 IP, 3.77 ERA, 140 K) Blue Jays Marcus Stroman (204.0 IP, 4.37 ERA, 166 K) It doesn’t bode well for the Blue Jays that Marcus Stroman’s final…
Not much has gone right for the Diamondbacks this year. A.J. Pollock has been hurt the entire season, Zack Greinke has had a tough season with his new team, and the Shelby Miller trade absolutely backfired (as many predicted). As a result of this, the Diamondbacks are nowhere near the playoffs. Despite an overall disappointing year,…
As we go into the final stretch of the 2016 regular season, there is finally a big enough sample size to make an educated guess at this year’s Rookie of the Year candidates. The NL ROY is pretty straight forward. You’ve got Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager, who’s hitting .302 with 21 bombs on the year, his…
This year’s trade deadline was one of the most eventful in recent memory. Nearly every potential contender made significant additions, while selling teams, like the A’s and Brewers, moved every trade-able asset they could. Too much happened for me to discuss every single trade here, so instead I’ll talk about a few select teams that…
The Reds front office is most likely kicking themselves right now. The front office in Philadelphia might be doing the same thing, actually. If today’s trade of Aroldis Chapman tells people anything, it’s that business is very separate from character in the world of baseball. The other big takeaway from this trade, is just how…
The Hall of Fame was made for guys like Cole Hamels. The man nicknamed “Hollywood” has pretty much been a star since the day he was called up in Philadelphia. A first-round pick out of San Diego (17th overall), Hamels was one of the main factors in the Phillies’ return to relevancy. He went 15-5 with…
With no baseball for two whole days (terrible, I know), there hasn’t been much to talk about other than trade rumors. Rather than listing off a bunch of far-fetched trade ideas that will never happen, I’m going to look at a team that’s floating in “sink or swim” mode, and try to figure out a way…
Yeah, I know. Another article about how the Giants win the World Series every other year, on even-numbered years…funny coincidence and all that jazz. This time it’s different though. No but seriously, the Giants are dominant these days. While they’ve shown they can be an unstoppable team during the playoffs, this is really the…
Criteria: The list of qualifications to be a great low-cost pick up consists of 3 categories: the value of the player, the cost of acquiring the player, and of course, the intangibles. The value of the player should be self-explanatory, but in case it isn’t, that consists of what he will produce on the field…
