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The Batting Order – Feat. Sam Fuld, David Robertson and… Tracy McGrady?

    A look around Major League Baseball and those local stories that don’t get nearly as much national coverage.   #1: CF – AJC: No Tim Hudson, no Brian McCann, no problem. David O’Brien explains why...

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Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Shortstop

Over the next few weeks, Baseballbabble.com writers will be going through each position and identifying two players we predict will take a step forward and improve in the 2014 season; and, three...

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Athletics’ Jarrod Parker To Have Tommy John, Miss 2014 Season

Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Jarrod Parker will need Tommy John surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right pitching elbow and will miss the entire 2014 season. This will be...

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American League Offseason Roundup: The good, the bad, and the ugly

With spring training in full force and the 2014 season set to kick-off in less than a week in Australia, lets evaluate the major, mid-level, and minor moves that shaped the offseason. Just days after...

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The Wide Open AL West Preview; Den of Injuries

With a rotation of Yu Darvish, Derek Holland, Matt Harrison, Martin Perez, (and arguably the best lineup in baseball), the Texas Rangers were my offseason runaway favorite to win the AL West.  It...

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The Batting Order – Yan Gomes, Dave Parker and Brandon Backe

A look around the major leagues at some of the more interesting stories from the past week. Here is The Batting Order!   #1 DH Injuries Everywhere – Pitchers continue to fall like flies over the last...

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Will previous PED suspensions affect this year’s MLB All-Star ballot?

With the first month of the 2014 season now in the books, we’ve had a big enough sample size to evaluate which players could have a shot at playing in the annual All-Star game at Target Field in...

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Will Samardzija help Billy Beane finally win the last game of the season?

The closing scene of the film “Moneyball” is a simple, resonating, and beautiful piece of sports cinema in which Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane has a life changing decision to make....

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It is Official, Mark McGwire is a Hypocrite

Mark McGwire told ESPN Los Angeles, “It’s too late, I don’t care to ever speak to him again. What he did was wrong.” So because of that, Mark McGwire will not accept Jose Canseco’s apology and forgive...

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Blue Jays, Improbable not Impossible Playoff chances

The Blue Jays have 25 games remaining in 2014 and currently hold a 70-67 record. The projected chance they make the playoffs is at about 3.2% which is not impossible but likely improbable after digging...

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Red Sox dishing out wicked bucks in Beantown

The Boston Red Sox have made big splashes over the past 48 hours by inking two of the biggest bats on this year’s free agent market to lengthy, lucrative contracts. After a sub-par year that saw the...

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Winter Meetings & Moves

The annual Winter Meetings are upon us! So far the 2014-2015 MLB offseason has been a busy one with many top names in play. We have already seen a blockbuster with the Oakland Athletics sending...

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Teams with the most WAR Hitters

Recently I was thinking about how some teams have multiple elite hitters while others might have one superstar mixed with average hitters or others have no elite players to be found. This got me...

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Diamondbacks keep strengthening team, add RP Tyler Clippard

The Arizona Diamondbacks have been one of the biggest players this MLB offseason, and they’re still adding pieces, as they’ve agreed to a two-year $12.25M deal with relief pitcher Tyler Clippard....

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