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The Basics of Bench Building
A good bench is often cited as one of those necessities for a championship baseball team. However, we are too often given vague descriptions of what truly constitutes a solid unit. Is it good pinch...
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How the Cubs Can Manage a Youth Movement
The Chicago Cubs are far from a young team at the moment. As currently constructed, Geovany Soto is the only everyday starter who will be under the age of 29 at season’s end. However, for the first...
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Fixing the Chicago Cubs
In a division that features the Houston Astros and the Pittsburgh Pirates, the nearly-as-dreadful Chicago Cubs are sitting a distant fourth, nine games behind first place Cincinnati and 12th place...
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Baseball’s Underachievers at the Break: Who Will Turn it Around?
Inherently, the ‘underachiever’ label requires a certain level of arrogance on the part of the party that offers the label. There is a difference — not always clear — between underachieving, and...
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Mike Quade is in as Cubs’ manager — what now?
When Lou Piniella ended his final season as manager early, most saw Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg as the frontrunner for the job with the possibility of some other proven manager stealing his chance. The...
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LBS 2011 MLB Preview: NL Central
The cream of the NL Central division could prove to be the team best suited to win the playoffs this year. There’s a problem though: like the 2010 Giants, the 2011 Milwaukee Brewers are better built...
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Extra Inning Affairs: Occurring at a Greater Rate than Ever Before?
On Saturday, June 4th, 2011, Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a grand slam in the 8th inning off of Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Logan Ondrusek to send the Reds and Dodgers to extra innings at Great...
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An Observation: the Count seems to be More Important in Baseball than Ever...
I have no hard evidence to back the theory that I am about to present, but I noticed earlier this month that the teams who were “sellers” at the MLB trade deadline (which just passed this last Sunday)...
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Hard to Ignore: Teams are not scoring runs on opening day
Watching baseball in April isn’t anything like watching baseball in July. I get that. Common belief dictates that pitching starts ahead of hitting, and that the cold weather certainly doesn’t favor...
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2013 Major League Baseball Mega-Preview: the National League
The National League enters 2013 competition with the consensus best team in baseball, the Washington Nationals. This is relevant on a number of levels. Three years ago, the Nats had the first overall...
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