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Albert Pujols Helped Me Get My First Dad-ism

by Khurram Kalim | May 25th, 2018

I’m not a dad. But I am old enough that baseball, as it’s played today, looks different than how it did when I was younger. Meaning the conventions I grew up with aren’t really contemporary… Read more »

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Checking in on the Free Agent Class of 2019

by Khurram Kalim | April 5th, 2018

We’re a week into the 2018 MLB season which, for all its walk-offs, extra innings, home runs, great pitching performances, and great pitching performers who hit home runs, is in the way of free agency… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: Philadelphia Phillies

by Khurram Kalim | March 6th, 2018

In a city with multiple professional teams and overlapping devotion, winning a championship elsewhere buys everyone a little more time. Congratulations to the Philadelphia Eagles for winning their first championship in the NFL’s post-merger era…. Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: Houston Astros

by Khurram Kalim | February 4th, 2018

So you just spent eight grueling months hitting, throwing, and catching a chunk of mud-rubbed hide across the country, all the while dealing with injuries, a devastating natural disaster in your home city, and one… Read more »

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Harvey for Profar: The Blockbuster Rumor That Was Anything But

by Khurram Kalim | December 18th, 2017

The first (and only) copy of the Baseball America Prospect Handbook that I bought featured a young Jurickson Profar on its cover. Handsome, sporting a glitzy smile and a two-eared batting helmet, Profar made the… Read more »

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The Losers Guide to the Divisional Round

by Khurram Kalim | October 13th, 2017

The MLB divisional round wrapped up after a week-plus of blowouts, nail-biters, comebacks, choke jobs, missed challenges, mold, pitching changes, so many mound visits, and everything in between. The focus switches to the LCS now,… Read more »

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Indians or Astros? Picking Your Poison in the Postseason

by Khurram Kalim | September 26th, 2017

When the Cleveland Indians caught the Houston Astros in the American League standings, I asked three of my Yankee fan friends who they’d rather play. The Yankees, of course, are sitting in pole position for… Read more »

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BttP Exclusive: Nolan Arenado’s Glove Answers Fan Mail

by Khurram Kalim | August 24th, 2017

Author’s note: In a Banished to the Pen exclusive, we teamed up with Nolan Arenado’s stellar glove to answer fan questions on names, offseason plans, the Dodgers, and much more. Hey everyone, Most of you… Read more »

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Chad Bettis and His Shared Win

by Khurram Kalim | August 17th, 2017

Chad Bettis pitched in a Major League game on Monday for the Colorado Rockies. It was his first professional start since undergoing chemotherapy during the spring after it was discovered the testicular cancer he had… Read more »

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We’re Overlooking Andrelton Simmons

by Khurram Kalim | August 10th, 2017

Everyone has their preferred sports play archetypes that lead to deep dives down the YouTube rabbit hole in time-consuming, auto-play compilations. For some, it’s the long home run or the dinger robbery. It could be… Read more »

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The Give-Up, The Re-Up

by Khurram Kalim | August 3rd, 2017

Even with the addition of the second wild card, at some point a team has to look at their season and figure it’s not ending in a postseason trip, let alone a World Series. For… Read more »

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Giancarlo Stanton Is a Statcast Dream

by Khurram Kalim | April 17th, 2017

Giancarlo Stanton is big and buff and gets paid a lot of bucks to destroy baseballs. His power is legendary, but for the fact there’s no legend to it. According to MLB.com’s record book of… Read more »

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Do the Mets Have a Bullpen Problem?

by Khurram Kalim | April 14th, 2017

In the bandbox of Citizen’s Bank Park on Wednesday, Mets reliever Hansel Robles entered a Mets-Phillies tilt in a precarious situation. The hard-throwing righty came in to bail out starter Zack Wheeler in the sixth… Read more »

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