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baseballreflections.com - 23 hours ago
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Image via Wikipedia He’s A Christian! But he
wasn’t always a Christian, people never are…not from birth
anyway. Furhtermore, there is a moment in every Christian’s life where they have made a choice to follow the path God has planned for them. For ...
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The Secret of Mariano Rivera’s Success
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baseballreflections.com - 39 hours ago
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Image by Keith Allison via Flickr So, when
interviewers asked Yankees manager Joe Girardi where he was
going after managing the NY Yankees to their 27th World Series Championship , did he say he would be going to Disneyland? Maybe he did, I don’t know because being a Red ...
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Yankees Manager Girardi Risks Life After 27th Championship
baseballreflections.com - 2 days ago
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Jeter & Rivera Although my prediction was the
Phillies in 6 or 7 games, it was still
a good series to watch and I’m so glad that it wasn’t another sweep! Here are some Yankees links to help you Yankee fans to celebrate your impressive 27th title! From the Subway ...
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Congratulations to the 2009 World Series Champion NY Yankees
baseballreflections.com - 2 days ago
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Sometime on Saturday, Baseball Reflections will be an
official member of the Most Valuable Network (MVN). The
only change you should see is the header and footer of MVN with a few of their ads and links to their other baseball sites via their MLB link as well as their other sports coverage ...
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Baseball Reflections Site Update
baseballreflections.com - 3 days ago
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This story will bring back many fond baseball
related memories from your youth.
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Rounding Third
baseballreflections.com - 4 days ago
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Image via Wikipedia As the popular 1981 Journey
song from their hit recording Escape reminds us to
“ Don’t Stop Believin’ ” I also found out that the song was adopted by the 2005 Chicago White Sox when they were in that year’s Fall Classic. ...
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Don’t Stop BeLEEvin’
baseballreflections.com - 5 days ago
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Image by Keith Allison via Flickr Last week
I covered the top 5 position player bargains of
the year – and despite the fact that they were great talents, had for cheap, they were still, mainly, pretty big names. This week, for part two, I’ll try to dive into 5 of ...
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The Biggest WAR Bargains of 2009: Part 2
baseballreflections.com - 8 days ago
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Third basemen make up another fruitful class of
free agents, perhaps the most fruitful of the entire
2009 class. The trade market for third baseman is also pretty bare, which should add intrigue, as most of the trade candidates have a t least one serious flaw: Mike Lowell (injury-prone), ...
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Hot Stove Baseball Free Agent Tracker: 3B
baseballreflections.com - 8 days ago
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There aren’t many top first basemen available this
year. Last year’s free agent class was led by
Mark Teixeira , who was the top free agent according to the Elias rankings that determine pick compensation allocation for teams which sign multiple Type A free agents. Teixeira’s new team, the ...
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Hot Stove Baseball Free Agent Tracker: 1B
baseballreflections.com - 9 days ago
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It’s been famously noted that the postseason is
a crapshoot. While there is definitely some truth to
that statement, for the St. Louis Cardinals the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers brought both old and new reasons for a hasty exit from October. ...
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The Cardinals 2009 Postseason And Some Notes on 2010
baseballreflections.com - 10 days ago
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The Clash of the Titans For those of
who who are not excited about this year’s Fall
Classic between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, think it over for a minute…and while you’re at it read this snippet from Adam Becker’s article over at Baseball ...
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My 2009 World Series Prediction
baseballreflections.com - 10 days ago
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With the Philadelphia Phillies heading to their second
consecutive trip to the World Series , here are
a few tributes to the late, Great Harry Kalas : A Phillies Legend! This first one is presented to you by Comcast … This one is the Harry Kalas tribute video 4/17/09 ...
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Three Harry Kalas Video Tributes
baseballreflections.com - 11 days ago
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Image via Wikipedia For those of us that
are not Yankees or Phillies fans, perhaps we should
simply put our disappointments and jealousies aside and enjoy what should truly be a Fall Classic. Believe me, as a lifetime Mets fan, I am as unhappy as anyone that I have to ...
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Get Over It!
baseballreflections.com - 12 days ago
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The market for second baseman in the offseason
is one of the few that have significantly more
supply than demand. Last season, players like Orlando Hudson entered the offseason expecting a major pay raise, and didn’t get it because the economy caused several free agents to remain unsigned ...
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Free Agent Tracker: 2B
baseballreflections.com - 12 days ago
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Warning: most
of this ballot is going to surprise you. How
do I know, because it surprised me! You see, I didn’t just use my eyes or even the traditional method/statistics to make up this ballot. I used 11 statistical categories ...
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BBA 2009 AL MVP Ballot
baseballreflections.com - 13 days ago
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Image by Keith Allison via Flickr Currently in
the MLB , the average player value, per win,
is about $4.5 million. So, if a player’s WAR (Wins Above Replacement) in a season was 2.0, that player would have been worth about $9 million. Naturally, there are going to be a ...
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The Biggest WAR Bargains of 2009: Part 1
baseballreflections.com - 14 days ago
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife After a
year in which Cardinals starting pitchers Chris Carpenter and
Adam Wainwright dominated the headlines, pitched their team to a division title and were expected to fight for some off-season hardware, it was the Giants’ Tim Lincecum ...
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Why Tim Lincecum will be your 2009 NL Cy Young winner
baseballreflections.com - 16 days ago
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When my contact at Akadema asked me if
I would do another review if sent another glove
I jumped at the chance! This time I asked for a first baseman ’s glove as I have always been fascinated with them for reasons unknown to even myself. Maybe it’s because when I was growing ...
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Product Review: Akadema’s ProSoft 1B Mitt: AJJ 254
baseballreflections.com - 17 days ago
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Natalie Niekro threw out the first pitch at
the Houston Astros game on September 13, 2009. She
will be throwing out the first pitch at three Arizona Fall League games between October 26-31 as part of “Aneurysm Awareness Week” at the Arizona Fall League. Unlike the ...
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Joe Niekro Foundation and Arizona Fall League Partner To ...
baseballreflections.com - 17 days ago
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Congratulations to the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies who have
beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 1
to advance to the World Series where they will probably face the New York Yankees! In tribute of the Great Harry Kalas! Help support Baseball Reflections and buy me a coffee with ...
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Phillies Advance to the 2009 World Series
