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Blockbuster Anatomy: Toronto GM Alex Anthopoulos on the Tulowitzki and Price...
Amid the craziest trade deadline week for any team this year — and one of the craziest for any team, ever — Alex Anthopoulos can pinpoint the one moment when he nearly lost his nerve. Thanks to the...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: Derrick Goold and Mike Polk Jr.
Jonah Keri talks to St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Derrick Goold about the Cardinals. Then, for ‘My Team Is a Joke,’ Mike Polk Jr. rants about the Indians....
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Seven Days in Flushing: Reliving One of the Craziest Weeks in New York Mets...
For the New York Mets, the first 16 weeks of this season featured plenty of highs: an 11-game winning streak, electrifying performances by the team’s young pitchers, and continued folk-hero status for...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: David Schoenfield on Underachieving Teams, and What...
Jonah Keri talks to ESPN.com writer David Schoenfield about the underachieving Mariners, Indians, and Marlins, and what makes a winning baseball team....
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Prospect Purgatory: How Seattle’s Inability to Develop Talent Doomed a...
This was supposed to be their year. The Mariners won 87 games last season and missed the playoffs by just one game. Heading into 2015 with a rotation anchored by Felix Hernandez, a second year for...
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The 30: Want to Win in October? Don’t Dodge Those Bullpen Problems
Last season, we all got a lesson in the outsize importance of a brilliant bullpen. As the Royals made an unexpected run to within one win of a World Series championship, Greg Holland, Wade Davis, and...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: Pedro Moura on the Angels, and Cousin Sal on the Mets
Jonah Keri talks to Orange County Register writer Pedro Moura about the Angels, baseball in Brazil, and Yasiel Puig. Then, for “My Team Is a Joke,” Sal Iacono talks Mets, bets, and the League of...
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Nationals Disaster: Remember When Washington Was Supposed to Be the Best Team...
The Nationals were supposed to run away with the NL East. That’s what we told you — more than once. Heck, that’s what everyone told you. Even the computers: The Nats had such high playoff odds to start...
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The 30: Who Did the Mets Sacrifice to the Schedule-Making Gods?
We’re eight days away from September, and so in keeping with a now-annual tradition, we’re about to get an onslaught of games between division rivals. Not a fan? Thank the dramatically unbalanced...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: Benjamin Hochman on the Cardinals, the Rockies, and...
Jonah Keri talks to new St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Benjamin Hochman about the Rockies, the Cardinals, and the state of journalism....
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The 30: When the Road to Failure Comes, Well, on the Road
Every year, home-field advantage has a tangible effect on baseball games. Historically, the home team wins about 54 percent of the time, the kind of seemingly minute but actually meaningful edge that...
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An At-the-Plate Anomaly: Madison Bumgarner and the Rapid Decline of the...
Last night’s Giants-Dodgers game provided plenty of intrigue: The teams are bitter rivals, the Giants desperately needed a win to cut down the Dodgers’ 4.5-game lead in the division, and the two guys...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: Anthony DiComo and Tyler Kepner
Jonah talks to MLB.com’s Anthony DiComo about the first-place Mets and to New York Times writer Tyler Kepner about A-Rod, the streaking Rangers, and the slumping Nationals....
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Verlander’s Revival: Why Detroit’s Ace Started Reading Scouting Reports and...
After four years atop the AL Central, the Tigers sit in last place, 21 games back of the first-place Royals. The guy who built the team is gone, and so are David Price and Yoenis Cespedes. All in all,...
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The 30: Four Key September Call-Ups Not Named Corey Seager or Javier Baez
For most clubs, September 1 serves as an uneventful late-season benchmark. It’s the day all teams can expand their rosters by adding as many as 15 players. But at that point, you’d expect anyone able...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: Mark Mulder on Matt Harvey, Pitch Counts, and the...
Jonah Keri talks to Baseball Tonight analyst and two-time All-Star Mark Mulder about Matt Harvey, pitch counts, and the art of pitching....
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Video: Fifty Years Later, Sandy Koufax (and Vin Scully) on One of the...
Fifty years ago today, Sandy Koufax polished off the winning side of what some say is the greatest pitching duel Major League Baseball has ever seen. On almost any other night, Bob Hendley’s line — an...
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Reds Mist: The Perfectionism and Historic Production of Joey Votto
In the hours leading up to every fifth Dodgers game, there’s a simple rule that everyone in the clubhouse must follow: Do NOT, under any circumstances, talk to Clayton Kershaw. L.A.’s ace serves as the...
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The 30: Got Injury Issues? Tell It to the Rangers
In baseball, as in other sports, injuries are often the great equalizer. You think you have a once-in-a-generation starter, and then Jose Fernandez tears his UCL and misses a year. Or you think you...
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‘The Jonah Keri Podcast’: Evan Drellich and Jamey Newberg on the AL West
Jonah Keri talks to Houston Chronicle writer Evan Drellich and Jamey Newberg of The Newberg Report about the great AL West battle between the Astros and Rangers....
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