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NL Cy Young Prediction: DeGrom should be the death blow to pitcher wins

A Very Simple Game — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:18:47 +0000

Jacob DeGrom has been the best pitcher in Major League Baseball this season (much less the National League). He’s also been the best player, position or pitcher, in the National League. In both cases, it’s not even all that close.

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2018 Hall of Fame Ballot Rundown

A Very Simple Game — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:43:04 +0000

The 2018 Hall of Fame ballot has been released – along with some “unofficial” guidance from the Vice Chairman of the Hall – and the arguments started before the first ballot was even submitted. Here’s our two cents. The discussion

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Underrated? Is Mike Mussina a Hall of Famer?

A Very Simple Game — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:31:47 +0000

Mike Mussina’s Hall of Fame credentials have been under debate the past few years. While he ranks high in most career measures, he never won a Cy Young award, won 20 games only once, and if elected, he would have

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Justin Verlander should have won at least one more Cy Young with the Tigers

A Very Simple Game — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 20:34:35 +0000

Justin Verlander is hours away from pitching Game 6 of the 2017 World Series. In doing so, Verlander could clinch a first ring for both himself and his new club. Some writers have suggested that Verlander needs a World Series

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Jose Altuve’s surprising weakness (one of the few)…

A Very Simple Game — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:28:16 +0000

Jose Altuve is playing out-of-his-mind, MVP-caliber baseball this year. The past four years he’s been one of baseball’s best players. The past two he’s been inching ever closer to superstar status (and this year, at least, he’s attained it). Altuve

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Tim Raines, ‘Greatest Base Stealer Ever’? Not as crazy as it sounds.

A Very Simple Game — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 04:20:40 +0000

As good as Tim Raines, 2017 Hall of Fame inductee,was as a baserunner, it is almost heresy to suggest that any player in Major League Baseball history was a better base stealer than Ricky Henderson. Henderson has by far the

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Yes, Ivan Rodriguez was really that good defensively

A Very Simple Game — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:20:54 +0000

Hall of Fame week continues with a look at first-ballot Hall-of-Famer, Ivan Rodriguez. Rodriguez is often considered the greatest defensive catcher in the history of baseball, and he’s in the conversation for greatest catcher of all time. He definitely has

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Jeff Bagwell: An all-time great batting eye

A Very Simple Game — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 00:54:18 +0000

On Sunday, the Houston Astros’ Jeff Bagwell will enter the Hall of Fame. We’re particularly pleased with Bagwell’s election, since it seemed for a little while that he might unduly suffer from PED speculation (while in a certain sense it’s

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Aaron Judge and Baseball’s “Youth Movement”

A Very Simple Game — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 23:59:00 +0000

Aaron Judge, the Yankees’ rookie phenom, has spent the first half of the season ripping the covers off of baseballs and sending them into low earth orbit. A mountain of a man with a charismatic smile, Judge has already been

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Top Nine Seasons by Players 40 and Older

A Very Simple Game — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 09:40:30 +0000

Last Sunday, Ichiro set a record as the oldest player to start a Major League Baseball game in centerfield during the modern ERA at 43 years old. This got us thinking: which players have put up the best seasons on

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