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Season Previews

2021 Season Preview Series: NL West

by BttP Staff | March 30th, 2021

Season Previews 2021 - NL West (Fernando Tatis Jr)

Part six of our annual preview series. This year, we present for each team a 60-word-or-so takeaway from 2020, a 162-word-or-so preview for the 2021 season, a win prediction, and a song to represent the… Read more »

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2021 Season Preview Series: AL West

by BttP Staff | March 29th, 2021

Season Previews 2021 - AL West (Matt Chapman)

Part five of our annual preview series. This year, we present for each team a 60-word-or-so takeaway from 2020, a 162-word-or-so preview for the 2021 season, a win prediction, and a song to represent the… Read more »

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2021 Season Preview Series: NL Central

by BttP Staff | March 26th, 2021

Season Previews 2021 - NL Central (Nolan Arenado)

Part four of our annual preview series. This year, we present for each team a 60-word-or-so takeaway from 2020, a 162-word-or-so preview for the 2021 season, a win prediction, and a song to represent the… Read more »

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2021 Season Preview Series: AL Central

by BttP Staff | March 25th, 2021

Season Previews 2021 - AL Central (Shane Bieber))

Part three of our annual preview series. This year, we present for each team a 60-word-or-so takeaway from 2020, a 162-word-or-so preview for the 2021 season, a win prediction, and a song to represent the… Read more »

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2021 Season Preview Series: NL East

by BttP Staff | March 23rd, 2021

Season Previews 2021 - NL East (Freddie Freeman)

Part two of our annual preview series. This year, we present for each team a 60-word-or-so takeaway from 2020, a 162-word-or-so preview for the 2021 season, a win prediction, and a song to represent the… Read more »

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2021 Season Preview Series: AL East

by BttP Staff | March 22nd, 2021

Season Previews 2021 - AL East (Vladimir Guerrero Jr)

Welcome to the first part of our annual preview series. This year, we present for each team a 60-word-or-so takeaway from 2020, a 162-word-or-so preview for the 2021 season, a win prediction, and a song… Read more »

Season Previews

Season Preview Series 2021 Index

by BttP Staff | March 22nd, 2021

Welcome to the seventh edition of Banished to the Pen’s season preview series! This time around, we provide a capsule for each team by first looking back at last season in about 60 words (one… Read more »

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60 Words for 60 Games: AL & NL West

by BttP Staff | July 23rd, 2020

60 Words for 60 Games - West

AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST The Astros have lost their GM, manager, and Gerrit Cole, but they still have a potential best-team-in-baseball core. The A’s will push them every step of the way. They’re not the only… Read more »

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60 Words for 60 Games: AL & NL Central

by BttP Staff | July 23rd, 2020

60 Words for 60 Games - Central

AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL There are good teams in Minnesota and Cleveland. There are bad teams in Detroit and Kansas City. The White Sox are the one in the middle. A “wild card” both in terms… Read more »

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60 Words for 60 Games: AL & NL East

by BttP Staff | July 23rd, 2020

60 Words for 60 Games - East

AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST The A.L. East asks the question: What do you get when you combine one recent champion (Red Sox), the best regular season team of the last decade (Yankees), a perennial close-but-not-quite contender… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2020, Pt 5: Milwaukee, Minnesota, NY Mets

by BttP Staff | March 13th, 2020

Milwaukee Brewers – by Andrew Ingrelli
Minnesota Twins – by Lee Pietruszewski
New York Mets – by Michael Conte

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Season Preview Series 2020, Pt 4: Houston, Kansas City, Miami

by BttP Staff | March 11th, 2020

Houston Astros – by Daniel R. Epstein
KC Royals – by Nathan Valentine
Miami Marlins – by Jon Jacoby

Season Previews

Season Preview Series 2020, Pt 3: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado

by BttP Staff | March 9th, 2020

Cincinnati Reds – by Mark Neuenschwander
Cleveland Indians – by Marina Bostelman
Colorado Rockies – by Dan Freedman

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Season Preview Series 2020, Pt 2: Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox

by BttP Staff | March 6th, 2020

2020 Season Preview Series header

Boston Red Sox – by Jamieson Weiss
Chicago Cubs – by Ben Bailey
Chicago White Sox – by James Cardis

Season Previews

Season Preview Series 2020, Pt 1: Arizona, Atlanta, Baltimore

by BttP Staff | March 4th, 2020

2020 Season Preview Series header

Arizona Diamondbacks – by Nick Strangis
Atlanta Braves – by Matt Mudd
Baltimore Orioles – by Chris Baber

Season Previews

Season Preview Series 2020 Index

by BttP Staff | March 4th, 2020

60 Words for 60 Games - Index

As MLB gets underway in 2020 with a revised and reduced schedule, we’ve done the same with our season previews, using a special “60 Words for 60 Games” format. Our writers have returned, this time… Read more »

FEATURES

Sabermetrics Starter Cards: An Introduction to Advanced Stats (Updated 9/24/19)

by BttP Staff | July 16th, 2019

Sabermetrics Starter Cards header

Presented here is a virtual baseball card series that aims to serve as an introduction to sabermetrics: Why is on base percentage better than batting average? What’s a good OPS? What does wRC+ mean? Most… Read more »

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Banished to the Pen’s Season Preview Series 2019

by BttP Staff | March 19th, 2019

Thank you for checking out Banished to the Pen’s 2019 Season Preview Series! In our fifth edition, we’re pairing shorter essays with some assorted miscellany to bring you a fun snapshot of every team heading… Read more »

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The 2018 Seattle Mariners: What Can Jerry Dipoto Do?

by BttP Staff | March 22nd, 2018

On the heels of last year’s wildly successful (and chaotic) Cubs preview, Brandon Lee, Dan Epstein, and Darius Austin brought back the Facebook chat preview to discuss the 2018 Seattle Mariners. Darius: I think the… Read more »

Season Previews

2018 Season Preview Series Index

by BttP Staff | February 6th, 2018

See the schedule of our published and upcoming team-by-team previews.

BTTP PODCAST

BttP Podcast 70: Offseason Moves, Baseball Vocab, Favorite ’17 Moments, Gaming

by BttP Staff | December 19th, 2017

Brandon Lee and Alex Crisafulli talk about Mike Dunn, Mike Dunne, Stephen Piscotty, Yu Darvish, Cubs vs Rays, “this season” vs “last season,” favorite 2017 moments, and SNES sports games, then cap things off.

FEATURES

Tales of the Key Departures That Broke Our Hearts

by BttP Staff | November 22nd, 2017

Sometimes it’s an exit you see coming as the July 31 trade deadline approaches. Other times, the news comes out of nowhere in the middle of the off-season. During this calm before the storm of… Read more »

BTTP PODCAST

BttP Podcast 69: Saber Seminar, an Old Trade, SunTrust Park, Players Weekend

by BttP Staff | August 11th, 2017

Brandon Lee, Mike Carlucci, and Nick Strangis talk about Mike’s visit to Saber Seminar 2017 (and seeing Effectively Wild live), a look back at a 2006 trade, Nick’s visits to SunTrust Park in Atlanta, and a draft of jersey names for Players Weekend.

BTTP PODCAST

Bttp Podcast 68: Fan Survey, Trade Candidates, and Effectively Wild

by BttP Staff | July 24th, 2017

The podcast returns from a hiatus as Darius Austin, Daniel Epstein, and Brandon Lee discuss FiveThirtyEight’s fan survey and Statcast’s Sprint Speed metric, hold a draft of trade candidates, and review the Jeff Sullivan era… Read more »

FANDOM/CULTURE

Pen Poll: Favorite Baseball Characters (Results)

by BttP Staff | July 18th, 2017

During the All-Star Break, BttP compiled a ballot of favorite fictional baseball characters, and readers were asked to select their personal top nine. The top 25 vote-getters are counted down below with the percentage of… Read more »

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Pen Poll: Favorite Baseball Characters

by BttP Staff | July 12th, 2017

Baseball characters poll

Below is a sortable list of candidates for our poll of favorite fictional baseball-playing characters (which includes 12 infielders, 12 outfielders, 17 pitchers, and 9 catchers). Apologies for any inevitable snubs. At the link provided,… Read more »

Garver Gazette

Garver Gazette 5/22/17: No Exaggeration Edition

by BttP Staff | May 22nd, 2017

The White Sox have agreed to terms with 19-year-old Cuban amateur free agent Luis Robert. Many consider the 19-year-old outfielder to be the best international prospect not named Shohei Otani.

Garver Gazette

Garver Gazette 5/15/17: Duelling Zacks Edition

by BttP Staff | May 15th, 2017

In this issue: Albers closes again… Ben & Jeff live show upcoming… News & previews… Mario Kart baseball

Garver Gazette

Garver Gazette 5/9/17: Albers Gazette Edition

by BttP Staff | May 9th, 2017

In this issue: Albers saves… News & previews… Eyewitness account of 18-inning affair… Post-Star Wars Day blowout

Garver Gazette

Garver Gazette 5/1/17: MLB’s First Month Concludes

by BttP Staff | May 1st, 2017

In this first issue: Upcoming Matchups… Webb-Albers Championship League Update… Local Dog Eats for Cycle

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