The Spitter whiffed badly last year in our projections for the National League Eastern Division. So we went back through the numbers to see if there was a singular thing that Atlanta excelled at. The answer is yes…and no. The Braves finished fifth in the N.L. in runs-scored and eighth in all of baseball in batting average (.300) on balls
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There’s a ship full of nice-looking young men just off the coast. Surely, they can be trusted to finish fourth, right? Right?
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One of these teams will win no more than 60 wins. Not excited? None of them will win 90. Mmmmm. Tasty.
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The American League West could be the nuttiest in baseball. After the Oakland Athletics came out of nowhere to claim a playoff berth, albeit a short-lived berth, the question this year is can they do it again? Okay, I lied. There are multiple questions like, “Are the Mariners better off without Robinson Cano and or James Paxton? When will and
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It’s gonna be a weird summer with the haves struggling to win and the have-nots struggling to be respectable.
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LOS ANGELES: Sometimes you have the pay the man and pay Clayton Kershaw is just what the Dodgers did in the off-season. Why $93 million for three years? Because he’s a winner, that’s why. But he’s an increasingly injured winner and that presents problems… and opportunities. The Dodgers will lean on blister-prone lefty curveball specialist Rich hill, lefty Julio Urias
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