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January 2, 2024

Jayson Stark Presents The Weird, Wild, Wackiest, Mind-Blowing Oddities Of 2023

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Like Pepperidge Farms, Jayson Stark remembers. Way back on April 16, I saw a crazy pitching line, hit Baseball Reference 's amazing Sta...
December 10, 2023

Ohtani Announces He's Signing With The Dodgers: 10 Years, $700 Million

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10 years. $700 million. Those are the eye-popping numbers on the unprecedented contract Shohei Ohtani will be signing with the Dodgers. The...
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December 2, 2023

The Yankees Are "Profoundly Saddened" That An Unrepentant War Criminal
(A "Lifelong Friend" Who "Will Be Deeply Missed") Died Yesterday At Age 100

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Of course they are. Statement from the New York Yankees: pic.twitter.com/OeIjo9irQ3 — New York Yankees (@Yankees) November 30, 2023 There ...
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November 2, 2023

WS 5: Texas 5, Diamondbacks 0

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Texas – 000 000 104 – 5 9 0 Arizona – 000 000 000 - 0 5 1 After six innings of a pitchers' duel that included Arizona's Zac ...
November 1, 2023

WS 4: Texas 11, Diamondbacks 7

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Texas – 055 000 010 – 11 11 0 Arizona – 000 100 042 - 7 12 1 After making history by becoming the first team to score 5+ runs in cons...
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October 31, 2023

WS 3: Texas 3, Diamondbacks 1

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Texas – 003 000 000 – 3 5 0 Arizona – 000 000 010 – 1 6 0 After back stiffness forced Texas starter Max Scherzer (3-2-0-2-1, 36) out...
October 29, 2023

WS 2: Diamondbacks 9, Texas 1

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Arizona – 000 200 232 – 9 16 0 Texas – 000 010 000 – 1 4 0 Arizona pitcher Merrill Kelly quieted the top American League offense on S...
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October 28, 2023

WS 1: Texas 6, Diamondbacks 5 (11)

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Arizona - 003 110 000 00 - 5 8 0 Texas - 201 000 002 01 - 6 9 0 The Arizona Diamondbacks were two outs away from a 5-3 victory in G...
October 25, 2023

Red Sox Hire Craig Breslow As New "Chief Baseball Officer"

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The Red Sox have hired former Cubs assistant general manager Craig Breslow as the team's new chief baseball officer*. Breslow replaces ...
October 7, 2023

ALDS / NLDS Begin Today
Also: Predictions From MLB.com and The Athletic

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Eight teams remain. The Dodgers are the first team in major league history to win 100+ games in four consecutive complete seasons (i.e., dis...
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October 2, 2023

2023 Postseason Begins Tuesday

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The 2023 postseason begins tomorrow, with four Wild Card games on both Tuesday and Wednesday, with any third games on Thursday. The ALDS and...
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October 1, 2023

RIP Tim Wakefield (1966-2023)

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Tim Wakefield died today. He was 57. I'm speechless. It's horrible news. Fifty-seven is an obscenely young age. Wakefield  underwen...
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September 28, 2023

Tim Wakefield Was Privately Fighting An Aggressive Form Of Brain Cancer
(But Curt Schilling A Repulsive Asshole Decided On His Own To Tell The World)

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The Boston Globe reports that Tim Wakefield and his wife Stacy are both suffering from cancer . Wakefield, 57 years old, "is fighting a...
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With Four Games Left, Revisiting The 2023 W-L Contest

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The 2023 Red Sox are in Baltimore and will close out their season with four games against the Orioles. With Boston at 76-82, here are the re...
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September 25, 2023

Schadenfreude 348 (A Continuing Series)

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The Diamondbacks beat the Yankees on Sunday 7-1, mathematically eliminating the MFY from the postseason. Yankee Elimination Day has been cel...
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September 18, 2023

Red Sox Fire Chaim Bloom As Chief Baseball Officer

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The Red Sox fired Chaim Bloom as the team's chief baseball officer last Thursday. Bloom, who was hired in the 2019-20 off-season, had o...
September 5, 2023

"He's Got A Gun In Right Field" (An Actual Gun)

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From the SABR biography of William "Farmer" Weaver (1865-1943), written by Janice Johnson: Weaver was a nineteenth-century playe...
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