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“Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over,” For Major League Baseball

“Turn out the lights, the party’s over. They say that all, good things must end.” Bad things too even though Willie Nelson didn’t mention those. The Major League Baseball season restart has been anything but good, starting with the terrible handling of test results when the league rushed teams to their facilities in the beginning of July and ending with six teams not playing yesterday … Continue reading “Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over,” For Major League Baseball

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Pumped in Crowd Noise Will Serve Many Purposes for MLB

Major League Baseball announced that the league will provide previously recorded fan noise to all teams to be used during the 60-game season as all games will be fan-less. The league noted that the crowd noise will provide a benefit to both the viewer at home as well as the players on the field. People often think that baseball is very quiet and that there … Continue reading Pumped in Crowd Noise Will Serve Many Purposes for MLB

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How Many Cases is Too Many?

At what point is it too many players that cannot play or decide to opt out? Across all of sports, when does the talent get diluted enough to really make the leagues question if they should continue? My guess would be that it would take a slew of high caliber stars to cause any kind of thought surrounding cancelling seasons. There have already been a … Continue reading How Many Cases is Too Many?

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The Baseball Season is Teetering

Major League Baseball is supposed to be back at the end of July, but what is the likelihood that the season actually happens? Per multiple reports, the league has done a horrible job of handling testing of players and personnel, causing the postponement and cancellation of training camp exercises by teams. The entire league was supposed to have tests conducted on July 3rd but in … Continue reading The Baseball Season is Teetering

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2020 MLB Predictions: NL Central

The National League Central race was especially close last season, coming down to the last few games before the St. Louis Cardinals eventually closed out with a two game lead over the Milwaukee Brewers. This season is not expected to be so close but it will by no means be a runaway, given the condensed 60-game schedule. Let’s break it down. St. Louis Cardinals The … Continue reading 2020 MLB Predictions: NL Central

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2020 MLB Predictions: NL East

The new 60-game season creates a lot of interesting wrinkles for this season, aside from being the shortest season ever played. Unfortunately new rules have also been implemented for this season, the biggest one being the designated hitter now featured in both leagues for the 2020 season. Given all of the new circumstances surrounding the season, it will be interesting to see what that actually … Continue reading 2020 MLB Predictions: NL East

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Will This Year’s MLB Records Hold Value?

Given the developments of the last few days, it seems likely that there will in fact be a MLB season, albeit truncated to around 70 games. From afar, 70 games sounds like a substantial number, nearly the entirety of the NBA and NHL seasons, however, for baseball that number is a drastic difference from the normal 162-game regular season. The game of baseball is as … Continue reading Will This Year’s MLB Records Hold Value?

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