Category Archives: MLB

The newfound dominance of starting pitchers in fantasy baseball

This is a guest post from our friends at FanDuel.com. There used to be a time in fantasy baseball when taking a pitcher in the first round was a huge risk. There were just too many variables from year to … Continue reading

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Playing Favorites (My Guy Got Traded in the Same Deal)

I was on the other side of last week’s Justin Upton trade. Like Mr. Googs, I felt the sting of seeing my favorite player on my favorite baseball team shipped out. Reading his paen to Martin Prado the other day … Continue reading

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Surviving When Your Favorite Team Trades Away Your Favorite Player

I went to bed last Wednesday night giddy with joy knowing that the Braves (my favorite MLB team) were on the verge of a trade to acquire borderline superstar Justin Upton from the Diamondbacks. Reports from that night indicated that … Continue reading

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Ranking the Hall of Fame class of 2013

Some baseball analysts will tell you that they “take seriously” all of the Hall Of Fame candidates and fully look at their resumes. But I doubt it. I’m pretty certain many of the HOF voters simply see a name like … Continue reading

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America Wins Tacos, Giants Win World Series

Right now it’s about an hour after the Giants finished off the Tigers in the 2012 World Series and the fires are still blazing in the streets outside my apartment. It was the classic baseball postseason story of a team … Continue reading

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Why Use 162 games to Determine the Wild Card Winner When You Can Throw That All Away and Use Just 1 Game?

Hopefully most of you remember my post about the World Series last year, but if you don’t, here’s a quick refresher: I have a hard time getting into it because I feel like a seven-game series is too small of … Continue reading

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Felix Hernandez and the Diminishing Return of Perfect Games

In case you haven’t heard about it, Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game yesterday; only the 23rd perfecto in MLB history. It’s a big deal for a guy who’s been one of the best pitchers in the game for a … Continue reading

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Hanley Ramirez and the Dodgers Just Makes All Kinds of Sense

I was chatting with my fiance on my drive to work and she told me that the Dodgers had just traded for a shortstop. She said he had a big contract and that Dodger fans were supposed to be really … Continue reading

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MLB Opening Night (America) Storylines: Cards/Marlins

Last time I checked, baseball weirdly started a week ago in Japan with a few games that no one watched, but the season officially starts tonight, when we get to see the World Series Champion Cardinals take on the Marlins … Continue reading

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2012 Baseball Milestones

The 2012 baseball season is upon us, and a popular topic this time of year (and throughout the baseball season) is to talk about records that will never be broken. However, there are plenty of records that will go down, … Continue reading

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Ryan Braun and Everything Wrong With PED’s

It’s time for spring-training again, yet in a sports world where the NFL is king, baseball has managed to stay in the headlines throughout its lengthy offseason. The MLB is really good at this. It’s almost as if the sport … Continue reading

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A Few Good Things About Frank McCourt

By now you have seen the news about Frank McCourt agreeing to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. And if you can’t tell that everyone is pretty excited about it, well, I really don’t know what to say. Retake those third … Continue reading

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It’s Not the Quality of the World Series That’s Keeping Me Away

And just like that, the World Series is almost over and SpreeGoogs hasn’t written a word about it. As the post count would suggest, I haven’t been entirely interested in this year’s Classic. Not that it’s been unimportant — the … Continue reading

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What Would A 1997 MLB All-Star Team Made Of 2011 Players Look Like?

As far as interesting sports stories go, right now is a particularly slow time. The NBA lockout is going nowhere, preseason football Is rough to watch because no one cares how many yards Ryan Mallet can throw for against the … Continue reading

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Dan Uggla’s Hitting Streak and What It Teaches Us About Baseball

It’s a shame that I had to miss out on the last month or so of blogging, because I like baseball a lot and I have a bunch to say about it. Sadly, Comcast hates me. Or Comcast hates baseball. … Continue reading

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