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Brooksie
Dad’s favorite ballplayer was born left-handed. Think about that for a minute: Brooks Robinson, the best who ever played the hot corner, was born with…
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Pennant Racin', Sept. 26
Before getting started with our Pennant Racin’ today, let me mention that I’ll be doing an Ask Me Anything with Substack Notes on Thursday from 2-3 p.m…
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Pennant Racin', Sept. 25
OK, I changed the title of this little series from “Must-Win Update” to “Pennant Racin’,” because: (1) I heard from a couple of you who took the whole…
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Must-Win Update, Sept. 24
The Cubs are big winners. The Padres, Giants and Reds ... not so much.
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Must-Win Update, Sept. 23
I’m fascinated by “must-win” pennant race games in MLB … because it’s so strange to me how often the must-win team loses to a team that, you would…
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Who Really Deserves to Win the Cy Young Award?
The oddsmakers, best I can tell, have set the lines for the American and National League Cy Young winners: It’s going to be the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole and…
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Waino
Gerrit Cole should be next. Assuming Cole keeps pitching roughly the way he has been pitching and he can stay healthy, he should win his 200th game…
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Shohei's Spectacular Season, and Everything Else Going On in Baseball Right Now
OK, back at home — at least for a couple of days — and there’s a whole lot going on in baseball, so let’s go around the league and see what’s happening…
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Baseball's Goal: To Go Home!
EN ROUTE HOME — Here I am in another airport at 4:30 in the morning, but this time feels different because this time, I’m going home. It has been an…
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All Hail Nolan Jones, and Is Brian Snitker Headed to the Hall of Fame?
Well, uh, yeah, that happened. WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list. It was beaten out only by the longtime No. 1…
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Wainwright Gets No. 199
EN ROUTE TO SANTA ROSA, CALIF. — Apologies up front … this crazy book tour has finally caught up with me. We had a great event last night at the Ebell…
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My Daily WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL Moment
LOS ANGELES — OK, so what I’m going to do this week is try to come up, every day (best I can), with a moment from the night before that gets at the…
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