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Dusty and the Road to 2,000
There has been shockingly little talk about this, but sometime in the next couple of weeks — in this 75th anniversary season of Jackie Robinson breaking…
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A Designated Hitter for All
I’m not sure you could better describe the quirks and vagaries of baseball to a stranger than to say that on Thursday, commissioner Rob Manfred…
Feb 11
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Ten Who Missed: No. 10, Vladimir Guerrero
Happy Father’s Day! As promised, today I’m launching the much-anticipated TEN WHO MISSED series, which will feature full-length essays on 10 players who…
Jun 19
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Ten Who Missed: No. 9, Eddie Murray
We continue our “Ten Who Missed” series today, with an essay on Eddie Murray. “Ten Who Missed” is a companion to The Baseball 100 — as the name…
Jun 24
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Mike Trout’s Anaheim
Here’s something I always appreciated about Roy Hobbs from the movie* “The Natural:” The guy was never boring. He was either tearing the cover off the…
Jun 7
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National League East
Welcome to Pozeroski Baseball! For a full explanation of what we’re doing here, you can check out this post. And if you subscribe now, you will get a…
Mar 28
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Stop with the Position Players Pitching Already
In many ways, the last 30 or so years of baseball have been about turning scarcity into excess. I suppose that, in many ways, the last 30 or so years of…
May 23
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Griffey vs. Bonds
OK, look, I have no idea when this baseball season will begin. I have started to have a really bad feeling about things as the owners already try…
Feb 8
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The Girardi Effect
Our friend Joe Sheehan did a fun little poll on Twitter a couple of days ago. At the time, the Phillies had won eight games in a row after the firing of…
Jun 14
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Ortiz and Sheffield
Brilliant Readers, This is the second of a series of Baseball Hall of Fame-related posts leading up to the big announcement of the new inductees on Jan…
Jan 7
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Most Legendary Moment
OK, so as you probably know — I am writing a book called “Why We Love Baseball,” and it is (at least on the surface) a countdown of the greatest…
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The Allure of the One-Man Show
Bill James has written about this — in the 1985 playoffs against Toronto, Kansas City’s George Brett had one of the greatest games a player has ever…
Jun 20
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