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COMMENTARY

Marlins in Review—One More Glance into the Past

by Treyton Ledoux | April 2, 2018

For many Marlins fans, dwelling in the past is about all you have if you haven’t lost faith in your team entirely. If you’re sick of visiting the past as it offers nothing for the… Read more »

Tags: Kansas City Royals Miami Marlins

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Baseball Video Game: Effectively Wild

by Ken Maeda | April 1, 2018

Presented here is a rundown of some of the features of the Effectively Wild baseball video game, which answers the question: If baseball video games were different, how different would they be?   Get your… Read more »

Tags: Effectively Wild video games

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Analysing the 2018 Predictions & Projections

by Darius Austin | March 29, 2018

There is no small degree of absurdity to predictions, particularly when it comes to providing a single win total for teams that play a 162-game schedule. This absurdity is frequently noted by Ben Lindbergh as… Read more »

Tags: predictions projections

Season Previews

2018 Season Preview Series: The Detroit Tigers Face Book

by AD | March 29, 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 »

Tags: Detroit Tigers

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

by Darius Austin | March 28, 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 »

Tags: Colorado Rockies

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Infuriating Tampa Bay Rays

by Rob Mains | March 27, 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 »

Tags: Tampa Bay Rays

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

by Alex Roche | March 26, 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 »

Tags: New York Mets

COMMENTARY

California Tie-Breaker: Not the End of the World

by Dan Freedman | March 23, 2018

If you have ever coached a youth tournament game, you are familiar with the California Tie-Breaker. The genesis of the name is unknown, but one must assume it got its moniker on the fields of… Read more »

Tags: California Tie Breaker rule changes

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The 2018 Seattle Mariners: What Can Jerry Dipoto Do?

by BttP Staff | March 22, 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 »

Tags: Jerry Dipoto Seattle Mariners

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The 2018 Texas Rangers in a Box of Casino Chips

by Simon Gutierrez | March 21, 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 »

Tags: Texas Rangers

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The 2018 Minnesota Twins: Better Late than Never

by Seth Moland-Kovash | March 20, 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 »

Tags: Minnesota Twins

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

by Nick Koss | March 19, 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 »

Tags: Pittsburgh Pirates Season Previews

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2018 Season Preview Series: Oakland Athletics

by Dan Freedman | March 13, 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 »

Tags: Oakland Athletics

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2018 Season Preview Series: San Francisco Giants

by Kenny Kelly | March 12, 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 9, 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 »

Tags: Milwaukee Brewers

FEATURES

The Best Baseball Research of the Past Year

by AD | March 9, 2018

For reasons having nothing to do with baseball and everything to do with local politics in a county adjacent to the one in which I reside, this annual feature is appearing far too late to… Read more »

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

by Nick Strangis | March 8, 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 »

Tags: Arizona Diamondbacks

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2018 Season Preview Series: Philadelphia Phillies

by Khurram Kalim | March 6, 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 »

Tags: Philadelphia Phillies

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2018 Los Angeles Angels Season Preview

by Jamieson Weiss | March 5, 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 »

Tags: Los Angeles Angels

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

by Rob Mains | March 2, 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 »

Tags: Atlanta Braves

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2018 Season Preview Series: St. Louis Cardinals

by Alex Crisafulli | March 1, 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 »

Tags: St. Louis Cardinals

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2018 Season Preview Series: Cincinnati Reds

by Barry Gilpin | February 27, 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 »

Tags: Cincinnati Reds

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2018 Season Preview Series: The Boston Red Sox in a Box of Sox

by Simon Gutierrez | February 26, 2018

If the Boston Red sox were a car, it would be a Subaru. Pretty popular, good gas mileage, roomy, durable. Solid, above-average ride. Not sexy though. Reliable. But not sexy.

Tags: Boston Red Sox Chris Sale Craig Kimbrel Mookie Betts Season Previews Xander Bogaerts

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Team in a Box: Baltimore Orioles or OrioLOLes? :(

by Chris Baber | February 23, 2018

My friend Rob Mains already touched on the Orioles and Royals’ ability to confound sabermetric prediction models. The team was back at beating their projections for a sixth straight year, albeit by a measly two… Read more »

Tags: Baltimore Orioles

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The 2018 New York Yankees, Of Course

by Daniel R Epstein | February 22, 2018

Of course the Yankees got Giancarlo Stanton. Retrospectively, there’s simply no other place he logically could’ve gone. The entirety of baseball reality has unfolded in exactly this way for 100 years. They pilfered Babe Ruth… Read more »

Tags: Aaron Judge Giancarlo Stanton Luis Severino New York Yankees

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The Washington Nationals’ Success Spectrum

by Brandon Lee | February 19, 2018

The Washington Nationals of the 2010s are a great baseball team. They have been a great baseball team since the beginning of the Bryce Harper Era in 2012. In four of the six seasons Harper… Read more »

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2018 Season Preview Series: San Diego Padres

by Daniel R Epstein | February 16, 2018

The 2017 Padres are your middle school biology teacher, suspiciously overeager to dissect a frog. Everything about this is going to be awful and scarring, but you might learn something. There is neither pretense nor… Read more »

Tags: San Diego Padres

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Cubs 2018 Season Preview: What Would Theo Epstein Do?

by Seth Moland-Kovash | February 15, 2018

I present to you an audience-participation season preview, featuring the reigning World Champion (the entire city of Chicago entered a World Series hangover on November 3, 2016 and has not admitted that 2017 even happened)… Read more »

Tags: Chicago Cubs

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2018 Season Preview Series: Die Hard Kansas City

by Darius Austin | February 13, 2018

Towards the end of the fourth Die Hard movie, an aging John McClane faces off against an F-35 Lightning fighter jet whilst driving a cumbersome truck. Naturally, McClane wins this battle. While the movie was an… Read more »

Tags: Alex Gordon Danny Duffy Kansas City Royals PECOTA Salvador Perez Season Previews

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Cleveland Indians 2018 Season Preview: Title or Bust

by Nick Koss | February 12, 2018

A year after coming within a rain delay and a Jason Heyward motivational speech (price tag: $21 million) of winning the World Series, the Indians had a good 2017.  They: 1) set the record for… Read more »

Tags: Cleveland Indians

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