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Ranking Each AL Team’s Best Offseason Move
The offseason is one of the most important parts of the MLB year. It allows teams to improve their roster via trades, free agency, scouting and extensions. It gives teams a better perspective of where...
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Downside To Each Team’s Biggest Free Agent Signing: American League
Every team makes moves in the offseason with hopes of improving their chances of playing October baseball, but these big moves can often backfire as nothing is ever guaranteed in the sport of baseball....
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Power Rankings: Top 5 Designated Hitters in ’15
We are nearing the end of my 2015 positional rankings. This, the shortest of the series, is one of my favorites. Ranking the DH position is so much harder, due to the fact that there is no defense to...
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Interesting Position Players to Watch in 2015
With spring training getting underway, Major League teams are starting their process of trying to figure out their opening day rosters. As fans, we’re all quite used to hearing about the superstars of...
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Does Steve Pearce Hold the Key to Orioles’ Offense in 2015?
For the first time in his professional baseball career, Steve Pearce entered Spring Training assured of the fact that he would be going north with the big club. A minor league journeyman who finally...
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Five Bold Predictions for the 2015 Seattle Mariners
The 2014 version of the Seattle Mariners gave their fans some serious glimmers of hope. With new manager Lloyd McClendon at the helm and the quarter-billion dollar Robinson Cano adding some meat to the...
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Glimmers Of Hope After A Tough Week: Mariners Get Sunday Walkoff Win
The last time I wrote about the Mariners, I was basking in the excitement of an Opening Day win. Felix Hernandez was his usual dominant self and the bats, surprisingly, found ways to support him. Since...
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I See You – Weekly Awards
A new weekly column that is designed to be a little serious, as well as a little sarcastic. The idea for the column is based on the Luke Bryan country song “I See You,” as well as the Nationally...
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Now Is the Time for the Mariners to Make Some Roster Moves
After falling one game short of the second wild card spot in 2014, the Seattle Mariners came into 2015 with high expectations. They were already a good-looking team after last season, and after the...
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Ryan Braun Is No Longer Just Another Cautionary Tale
Ryan Braun is a guy whose reputation has been severely tarnished due to his admission of using performance-enhancing drugs. It wasn’t the admission of PEDs that made everyone turn their back on him,...
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Nelson Cruz: All aboard the regression train?
May 2015 did not look all that different from May 2014 for Nelson Cruz. In his first season with the Seattle Mariners, Cruz hit eight home runs and drove in 16 while slashing .346/.407/.607. Last May,...
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Is Alex Rodriguez an All-Star?
The short answer to the title question, of course, is most likely, but what kind of writer would I be if I was willing to leave it at that? Alex Rodriguez has turned the baseball world on its ear so...
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Why Royals dominating All-Star Game voting isn’t bad for baseball
Let me premise what I am about to write with the following statement. If you have not voted for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, you have no right to bellyache over the fact that after...
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Split Decision: Major League Baseball Splits Thus Far
So I had this idea the other week. Not the kind taken straight from a comic book where I become a madman take over a city. No, no, the kind where I become a madman and try to periodically update the...
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Edgar Martinez Named Mariners New Hitting Coach
On Saturday afternoon, the Seattle Mariners announced the hiring of former Mariners designated hitter and third baseman Edgar Martinez as their new hitting coach. Howard Johnson had been the hitting...
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All-Star Worthy Position Players: American League
Fan voting in the All-Star Game has been a largely controversial topic this season. Kansas City Royals fans have stuffed the ballot box for their players and their efforts will earn them as many as...
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Is Jimmy Paredes an All-Star?
The Jimmy Paredes show rolled on in Baltimore last night. The Orioles’ designated hitter, in the midst of a breakout season at 26, went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs. He drove in the first two...
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Seattle Mariners Face The Impossibility Of Preseason Predictions
Hey Mariners’ fans, any of you remember the preseason hype and hope? Remember how everybody was picking them to win the American League West division title? How about when ESPN looked into their...
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Nelly Cruz booming in Seattle
Some in the Seattle Mariners organization wanted Nelson Cruz before the 2014 season. Cruz was coming off a PED suspension and that likely played a major role in why the M’s didn’t sign him and the...
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Why Nelson Cruz Should Be The AL MVP
Safeco Field is known as one of the best pitcher parks in the big leagues, which is one reason why the Seattle Mariners are one of the most offensively-challenged teams in baseball. Camden Yards in...
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