This Week in Baseball – Trade Deadline, World Series Odds, Mets Loss, Altuve DL, Haboob

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More Like Trade Alive-line… The MLB Trade Deadline ended on July 31st and there were a whirlwind of last minute trades between teams. This was one of the most active trade deadlines in recent years. Teams that have decided that …

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Meme-O-Random: A Dangerous Baboon

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Oh, boy, I wish that this wasn’t an auto-correct… Check out more funny baseball memes in Off Base. Or like our Facebook page: The Baseball Memes  

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Trade Deadline Moves Impact AL Playoff Race

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*F5 … F5 … F5* *Pulls down to refresh* *Nervously glances around* *F5 … F5 … F5* Rinse and repeat, this is your typical baseball fan on July 31, a day more stressful than any other major holiday. One can’t …

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Shut Up, Pete Rose, You Genius

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My apologies in advance. You’re going to feel dirty after this article. I was on a baseball hiatus this weekend. Sadly, I missed all of Hall of Fame weekend. My only baseball interaction was getting updates on my phone. It …

This Week in Baseball – Trading Deadline, Judge Wrist, Poncedeleon No-Hits, Jeter Gambling, Tebow Hand

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Begun the Trade Wars Have As the MLB Trading Deadline fast approaches, teams are angling and making their moves in order to finalize deals before July 31st. The Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, Rockies, Athletics and Red Sox have all acquired players to …

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Baseball: What the Hell Is Happening?

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Part one of a three-part investigation On the surface, everything in baseball seems fairly normal as we head down the stretch of this season, However, over the past few months, I have seen more articles about baseball’s on- and off-field …

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Meme-O-Random: Best-Selling Orioles Jersey

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With the trade deadline approaching, it’s out with the old and in with the new for the Baltimore Orioles… Check out more funny baseball memes in Off Base. Or like our Facebook page: The Baseball Memes

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Exploiting Fantasy Recency Bias with Future Projections

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In sports, we must always look forward. We’re in a particularly dangerous stage in the baseball season right now: enough games have been played where we start to overweight year-to-date (YTD) production, thinking that what a player has done so …

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Fantasy Baseball Strategy: The Art of the Stream

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I remember my first matchup of the fantasy season. It was fantastic, a 9-1 gutting of the now fifth-ranked team in the league. I sat back in my chair at work and thought to myself, “Ryan, you’re a genius. You …

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Chin Music — An Ode to Baseball

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Editor’s note: And now, for something completely different—Chin Music, a baseball poem from Jeffrey Steinberg. Play ball! I believe in the thud of a fastball smacking into a weary, leathered mitt softened by tobacco juice. I see fingers flashing signs. …