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Theo Epstein And Chasing A Baseball Holy Grail
By Dan Bernstein Quality starting pitching is onerously expensive, and it’s also unpredictably fragile. Reconciling those unfortunate facts is part of life in major league baseball, with teams resigned...
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4 Radical Ways To Improve Baseball
By Tony Massarotti The start of the 2016 baseball season is now less than two weeks away, and talk about the future of the game rages on. The pace is too slow. If you ask Bryce Harper, there is not...
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15 Years Ago Today Randy Johnson Hit A Bird With A Fastball
Bryan Altman Randy Johnson is widely known as one of the great pitchers of his generation. He’s a five-time Cy Young award winner, a 10-time MLB All-Star, a first-ballot Hall of Famer and a World...
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2016 NL East Preview: Can The Mets Be Beaten?
Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports Opening Day is right around the corner. As the calendar gets ready to turn to April, we prepare for another spring/summer full of the thrills of the diamond. With spring...
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2016 NL Central Preview: Cubs Favorites In Top-Heavy Division
Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports Opening Day is right around the corner. As the calendar gets ready to turn to April, we prepare for another spring/summer full of the thrills of the diamond. With spring...
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NL West Preview: Giants And Dodgers Set To Battle For Supremacy
Bryan Altman and Tom Bogert, CBS Local Sports Opening Day is right around the corner. As the calendar gets ready to turn to April, we prepare for another spring/summer full of the thrills of the...
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7 Bold Predictions For The 2016 MLB Season
Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports Another year of baseball is upon us and that provides us with yet another opportunity to change the fact that ‘bold predictions’ are ultimately synonymous with ‘wrong...
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LISTEN: Ken Burns Discusses Jackie Robinson
By Jamal Murphy The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is a point the great documentarian Ken Burns made when he joined Bill Rhoden and me on the latest episode of Bill Rhoden On...
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How Much Does The First Month Of The MLB Season Matter?
Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports If you have ever paid any mind to the never-ending NFL coverage during the earliest parts of football season, you’ve undoubtedly been subjected to statistics much like...
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Cole Swindell Talks Braves And The Time Peyton Manning Sang With Him
By Ryan Mayer Music and sports often intersect. Often, our sports stars wish they could be musicians and vice versa. That mutual level of admiration stems from the level of confidence and dedication...
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It’s Time To Assess Strengths And Weaknesses In Fantasy Baseball
By Sam McPherson As the Major League Baseball season reaches the middle of its third month, it’s a good time for fantasy baseball owners to look at the standings and determine the team strengths and...
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Fourth of July MLB Games See Big Ticket Price Increase for Some Teams, Deals...
There may be no image more quintessentially American than baseball fans spending the Fourth of July at a baseball game – which is what many around the country are doing with their holiday on Monday....
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Halfway Through The Fantasy Baseball Season, Where Does Your Team Stand?
By Sam McPhersonBy the time the Fourth of July has passed, the 2016 Major League Baseball season will be entering the second half of its long, six-month life. As real-life general managers evaluate...
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If Your Fantasy Baseball League Has A Trade Deadline, Act Fast To Make A Move
By Sam McPherson In standard, one-season fantasy baseball leagues, there is often a trade deadline toward the end of August. This means no trades can be made in the league after the deadline passes,...
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Breaking Down The Contenders: A Look At MLB’s Closest Division And Wild Card...
Bryan Altman The passing of Labor Day simultaneously denotes that summer is over and the weather is soon going to start cooling down for much of the U.S., but also that the MLB season is on its last...
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Early-Season Injuries Do Not Have To Doom Your Fantasy Baseball Team
By Sam McPherson The Major League Baseball season is two weeks in, and already there have been a ton of players suffering injuries and landing on the new 10-day disabled list. The 2015 American League...
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5 Best MLB Catches So Far This Season
By Rich Arleo Baseball has been called a game of numbers for years, and for good reason. There are stats to judge almost everything a hitter or pitcher does these days, and while the ever-evolving...
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5 MLB Aces No One Saw Coming In 2017
By Rich Arleo The 2017 MLB season has been dominated by offense, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been great pitching performances. While the usual suspects like Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer, Chris...
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Massarotti: Shohei Otani And The Risk Of A Two-Way Player
By Tony Massarotti The Babe Ruth of Japan, as he is known, is listed at 6-foot-4 and 203 pounds, which physically makes him more akin to, say, Yu Darvish than it does to the Bambino. But then, Ruth is...
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30 Players: AL East Brimming With Breakout Potential
By Rich Arleo CBS Local Sports, in our 30 Players 30 Days spring training feature, profiles one young player from each Major League Baseball team leading up to opening day. American League: East |...
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30 Players: Top Prospects Set To Leave Mark On NL East
By Rich Arleo CBS Local Sports, in our 30 Players 30 Days spring training feature, profiles one young player from each Major League Baseball team leading up to opening day. American League: East |...
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30 Players: AL Central’s Young Stars Ready To Take Next Step
By Rich Arleo CBS Local Sports, in our 30 Players 30 Days spring training feature, profiles one young player from each Major League Baseball team leading up to opening day. American League: East |...
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30 Players: NL Central Rich With Young Pitching
By Rich Arleo CBS Local Sports, in our 30 Players 30 Days spring training feature, profiles one young player from each Major League Baseball team leading up to opening day. The Chicago Cubs have built...
View ArticleSpring Training Report: Ohtani Struggles, Altuve Gets Paid
By Norm Elrod With Opening Day just over a week away, teams around the league are rounding into form, or scrambling to fill gaps as suspensions, injuries and growing pains become a reality. One...
View ArticleRed Sox, Nationals Only Teams On Track To Pay Luxury Tax
By Ronald Blum NEW YORK (AP) — The Boston Red Sox and Washington Nationals are the only teams on track to pay baseball’s luxury tax this year, according to opening-day payroll totals compiled by Major...
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Twitter Reacts To Astros Closer Ken Giles Punching Self In Face
By Ryan Mayer Baseball can be a frustrating game, especially for guys called upon in late-game pressure situations. One day, you quickly work your way through the opponent to lock down a save, and the...
View ArticleThe Baseball Report: Pujols Gets 3,000th Hit, Kimbrel Fastest To 300 Saves
Ryan Mayer Most of the talk surrounding Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols in recent years concerns his struggles to live up to his mammoth contract. It’s true that Pujols isn’t the same hitter...
View ArticleSwarm Of Bees Delays Minor League Baseball Game
Ryan Mayer Professional baseball players are used to sitting through their fair share of delayed games during the course of the season. In most cases, those delays are due to weather related incidents....
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Best Sports Moments In July 4th History
Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports While the Fourth of July is synonymous with many things – such as patriotism, barbecues and fireworks – one thing America’s independence day doesn’t bring to mind is...
View ArticleDr. Anthony Fauci On Baseball Returning This Summer: ‘There’s A Way Of Doing...
(CBSNewYork/CBS Local) — Quarantine may be the best opportunity people will ever have to catch up on all those television shows they’ve missed. However, it’s the worst time to be a sports fan. With...
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