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Javy Báez, the most interesting man in baseball

I wouldn’t pretend to not have a personal connection in order to Javier Báez, who is signing with the Detroit Tigers at some point today for six years, $140 million. He’s always been the most interesting player to be able to watch first on the Cubs, back when I cared a lot, and in baseball […]

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Five pitchers whose Cy Young-caliber seasons are going unnoticed

Baseball has gone through an entire “repressed Catholic kid going into their freshman year of college”-type transformation over the past several years. With baseball moving ever closer to a “three true outcomes” game, several pitchers have revitalized their careers and several more have just started to find success at… Read more…

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The last Opening Day

Of course it’s not the last Opening Day this week. There will be a baseball season after 2021. It’s likely that it will be in 2022. But it could not be! You can’t imagine that MLB owners and the MLBPA would lose a full season and another World Series to a work stoppage. But also, you […]