Tag: Baseball
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Chasing Perfection: The Roy Halladay Story
¡BIENVENIDOS A MIAMI! It’s Saturday, May 29th, 2010. The Florida Marlins are hosting the Philadelphia Phillies on a hot, humid night in Miami in front of a crowd of 25,086 people. This crowd represents just over half of the total capacity of Sun Life Stadium (known today as Hard Rock Stadium), a football arena doubling…
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Pride of Detroit: The Story of the “Gritty Tigs”
It’s August 10th, 2024. The Detroit Tigers just lost by a score of 3-1 to the San Francisco Giants. Detroit’s record is 55-63, and they hold a 0.2% chance of making the American League (AL) playoffs, which begin on October 1st, 2024. Less than two weeks earlier, just prior to the MLB trade deadline, the…
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The MVP Blog’s Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2024
Welcome to the 3rd annual Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Blog! To begin, let’s briefly explain our Hall of Fame, and how it differs from Cooperstown. The classes of 1936-2021 are the same. Everyone who was already in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame will remain, nobody gets the boot. From 2022 onwards,…
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2022 Fantasy Baseball Love/Hate
Matthew Berry’s Love/Hate column is one of the most fun fantasy football articles that comes out every single year. And EVERYBODY reads it, no matter how many times he may lead us astray. This is my attempt at being Matthew Berry, but instead of looking at fantasy football, I’m interested in fantasy baseball. Below are…
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The MVP Presents: MLB Hall of Fame Class of 2022
Welcome to the first edition of The MVP Blog’s MLB Hall of Fame voting. We have 3 very prestigious voters who will cast their votes today. Before we get into how our Hall of Fame voting will work, we must first meet the voters. The first voter is The MVP Blog’s own Ryan Macdonald. The…
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