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passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 40 hours ago
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[[Switching to first person]] By my count, I've
written 600 or so posts here since the middle
or late in Spring Training. By tagging a few posts, I believe my average word count is around 500 words. That comes out to about 300,000 words. I averaged about 20 posts every seven days for four ...
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passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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The voters for the Cy Young Award in
the American League got it right. Zack Greinke was
baseball's best pitcher last year. He didn't win 20. He didn't win 19 or 18 or even 17. He won 16. And the big fear in this corner was that his win total would keep Greinke out of the running for the only ...
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AL Cy Young Award - Zack Greinke
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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A while back in this space, this writer
did a complete analysis of the rookie candidates for
Rookie of the year. After looking over that piece, this writer is still convinced the conclusions were correct. But those choices were not the players who won the Rookie of the Year honors: Chris Coghlan ...
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Another Award Gone Bad
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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Tim Brown wrote a piece for Yahoo Sports
concerning Dan Uggla's agent stating Dan Uggla wants to
stay at second base. The agent is quoted as saying: "...he’s performed remarkably over these four years at second base and there should be no reason to consider a position change at this time.” In ...
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Dan Uggla - The New Soriano?
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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Anyone who has been reading the major sites
and the most popular baseball writers knows the current
outcry of scorn concerning the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. And while that award's results this year are again severely flawed, it isn't the only flawed award out there. This week we also had the ...
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Gold Gloves Not the Only Flawed Award
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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Ken Griffey Jr. has always been a Fan
favorite. And it was fine for him to have
a swan song season in Seattle. But it should have ended there. Instead, the Kid has signed on for another year and once again, all an admiring and thankful Fan can do is hope that the latest off-season surgery will ...
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Ugh. They Should Have Retired
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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Our nation's capital hasn't seen a good team
in a good long while. Going back and including
the Washington Senators who left for Minnesota in 1961, Washington baseball teams have come in last place seven out of nine seasons and one of those seasons was a next-to-last-place team. Not only were ...
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Washington Nationals - 2009 Debrief
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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Many of you know that Joe Posnanski is
a favorite writer of this blog. His excellence is
beyond pretty much anything out there. He is consistently entertaining and consistently on point. As a result, he has earned his new gig as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated.One of the things that good ...
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Bouncing off of Posnanski
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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The Marlins came in second place in the
National League East, six games behind the Phillies and
a game ahead of the Braves. Here is a quick quiz: The Marlins won 87 games and came in second because: A) Great young pitching or B) Batting. Most people would answer "A." But really, the answer is ...
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Flordia Marlins - 2009 Debrief
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 14 days ago
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The New York Mets and their fans have
to be gnashing their teeth. Not only did they
have their arch rival Phillies in the World Series, but also their cross town rivals, the Yankees. All that occurred while the Mets had one of the highest payrolls, the highest of expectations and it all ...
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New York Mets - 2009 Debrief
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Right after the regular season ended, a series
of posts began to debrief all the major league
teams to look at the 2009 season and to look ahead to 2010. The series has already concluded the National League West and one post covered the Atlanta Braves for the National League East before the ...
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Philadelphia Phillies - 2009 Debrief
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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The old guys did it. Derek Jeter had
three hits. Pettitte did what he always does by
keeping his team in the game. Jorge didn't have a great game but he's had a good season and some big hits this post season and Mariano Rivera...what is there to say? There has never been anyone like him. He is ...
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The Yankees Are Champions
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
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While the baseball world waits for tonight's Game
6 between the Yankees and the Phillies, other teams
are not standing around doing nothing. The Rays made a trade with the Pirates and a Blue Jay had a surgery that will hopefully help him start earning his pay.The Tampa Bay Rays seem to be run by ...
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Two Non-World Series Stories
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 18 days ago
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Cliff Lee was okay, which is what he's
always been. A. J. Burnett was atrocious. And that
was the difference. That the Phillies built a big lead and then watched the Yankees chip away at it despite missing a third of their regular lineup for at least part of the game should be of concern. But ...
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The Phillies Hang On
passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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It was a game of moments and fortunately
for the Yankees and their fans, the Yankees had
more of them than the Phillies did. Thanks to three runs in the top of the ninth inning off of Brad Lidge (more on that later), the Yankees broke open a 4-4 tie and handed the ball to Mariano Rivera in the ...
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Yankees Surge to a 3-1 Lead
