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Season Preview Series 2019: Miami Marlins

by Daniel R Epstein | March 22nd, 2019

A song to play while you’re reading about the Marlins: “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails Some things are more important than baseball. If the game ceased to exist, we would miss it terribly, but we’d… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: San Diego Padres

by Dan McMenamin | March 21st, 2019

A song to play while you read about the Padres: “Afternoon Delight,” as sung by San Diego’s own Ron Burgundy. After the Machado signing and seeing how the team’s top prospects have performed so far… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Colorado Rockies

by Alexander Perez | March 21st, 2019

A song to play while you’re reading about the Rockies: “Rocky Mountain High,” by John Denver The natural urge or human exploration and ambition is to go where few others have gone before. For some… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Arizona Diamondbacks

by Nick Strangis | March 21st, 2019

A song to play while reading about the Diamondbacks: “All We Got” by Chance the Rapper Back in 2012, the Angels were in a playoff hunt thanks to strong veteran seasons from pre-decline Albert Pujols… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Cleveland Indians

by Scott Brady | March 21st, 2019

Heading into the 2019 season, the Cleveland Indians look to continue their streak of Division Titles. 2018 marked their third in a row and fifth winning season since Terry Francona took over the manager’s seat… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Chicago White Sox

by Mike Moriarty | March 21st, 2019

A song to play while you’re reading about the White Sox: “Almost” by Bowling for Soup. White Sox fans went into the offseason uncharacteristically optimistic about the team’s chances to land either Manny Machado or… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Texas Rangers

by Eric Robinson | March 20th, 2019

A song to play while you read about the Rangers: “It’s Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer” by team minority owner Charley Pride. There was little fanfare for Arlington Stadium during its last season in… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Los Angeles Angels

by Kevin Sanada | March 20th, 2019

A song to play while reading about the Angels: “Michael” (as in Trout) by Franz Ferdinand. In 1995, Hideo Nomo debuted with the Dodgers and my pee wee baseball practices were never the same again…. Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Houston Astros

by Thomas Scott | March 20th, 2019

A song to play while you’re reading about the Astros: “Zachariah,” by the Jesus Lizard. It’s a spaghetti Western stalk of inevitability, the soundtrack for a team that can only be contained in the vagaries… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Seattle Mariners

by Jared Beaumont | March 19th, 2019

A song to play while you read about the Mariners: Built to Spill – “Never Be The Same,” because Jerry Dipoto’s team today will never be the same as it was last week. On the… Read more »

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Season Preview Series 2019: Oakland Athletics

by Simon Gutierrez | March 19th, 2019

A song to play while reading about the Athletics: “A Theme for Oakland,” by the Phenomenauts. For 30 years, the Oakland Athletics had used Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” as their victory song. That’s fine… 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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Evaluating the 2018 Predictions and Projections

by Darius Austin | October 4th, 2018

With the regular season over, it’s the most exciting time of the year: we get to find out which predictions or projections from our preseason contestants were the most accurate. Apparently there are some playoffs… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Detroit Tigers Face Book

by AD | March 29th, 2018

Do you remember the face book? Not TheFacebook.com. We’re talking about its localized analog predecessor: an actual book schools printed and circulated to incoming students to help them get to know their new classmates. After… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Colorado Rockies, Now Mostly Bullpen

by Darius Austin | March 28th, 2018

One hundred and six million dollars. That’s how much the Colorado Rockies invested in free agent relievers this offseason. That’s over six times what they spent on position players. This extreme approach will, unavoidably, dominate… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Infuriating Tampa Bay Rays

by Rob Mains | March 27th, 2018

The heel team of the 2018 offseason was definitely going to be the Pittsburgh Pirates. In January, they traded the top pick in the 2011 draft, pitcher Gerrit Cole, because he was likely to get… Read more »

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2018 New York Mets Season Preview: How Good are Damaged Goods?

by Alex Roche | March 26th, 2018

Ah, the innocence of April. There I was, sitting on my couch, allowing myself to believe for even a moment that the 2017 New York Mets season would be free of the various issues that… 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 »

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The 2018 Texas Rangers in a Box of Casino Chips

by Simon Gutierrez | March 21st, 2018

Jon Daniels is rolling the dice. At some point this offseason, he must have looked at his starting rotation and thought, huh. I have two starters. We should… I should do something about that. At… Read more »

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The 2018 Minnesota Twins: Better Late than Never

by Seth Moland-Kovash | March 20th, 2018

A couple days ago, the esteemed editor/organizer/cat wrangler of this team preview series here at Banished to the Pen sent me a very kind email. It said “Were you going to have that Twins preview… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Pittsburgh Pirates Plundered Themselves This Offseason

by Nick Koss | March 19th, 2018

This time last year, optimism was in abundance in the Steel City. The NL was sharply divided between have and have nots, and the Pirates sat closer to the haves. With former MVP Andrew McCutchen… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: Oakland Athletics

by Dan Freedman | March 13th, 2018

It’s a beautiful Saturday night in April, and you can think of ten different places you would rather be. But propriety and parental obligation find you walking into your kid’s school spring fundraiser. You do… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: San Francisco Giants

by Kenny Kelly | March 12th, 2018

The only thing that went right for the Giants in 2017 was that the Dodgers didn’t win the World Series. Even then, THEY CAME VERY, VERY CLOSE. Before the season, the Giants were unanimous favorites… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: Milwaukee Brewers

by John McGee | March 9th, 2018

I haven’t been asked to produce a season preview for four years. My last effort, a team-by-team dissection of League One, English football’s third tier of professional soccer achieved a little notoriety owing to its… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks, A Team That Can’t Exist

by Nick Strangis | March 8th, 2018

Previously on “Nick Strangis previews the Arizona Diamondbacks”, I suggested that the 2016 Diamondbacks resembled a real life Shrodinger’s Cat – they were simultaneously a young-ish team with loads of untapped talent and incredible upside… 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 Los Angeles Angels Season Preview

by Jamieson Weiss | March 5th, 2018

I hope Mike Trout is happy. His Philadelphia Eagles, who play in a different state than the one he’s from even though two teams play in New Jersey because Eagles fandom makes no sense and… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Promise of Youth for the Atlanta Braves

by Rob Mains | March 2nd, 2018

The 2017 Braves were supposed to have been a tanking team, like the Phillies and Reds. But they spent only 15 days in the cellar, none after May 10. This is not to say that… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: St. Louis Cardinals

by Alex Crisafulli | March 1st, 2018

On May 20, 2017, Carlos Martinez was scheduled to get the ball against the visiting, scoring-challenged San Francisco Giants. It was good timing. After blanking the Cubs for seven-plus innings on Opening Night, Martinez hit… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: Cincinnati Reds

by Barry Gilpin | February 27th, 2018

“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” — The Who, 1971   The 2018 edition of the Cincinnati Reds look a lot like the 2017 vintage. The same holes, the same questions that… Read more »

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