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Pitching Injuries: We Kind of Told you So
Another baseball season has begun and the main topic of discussion has been the rise in pitching injuries. Notable pitchers falling to injury so far this year include: These are just the most notable pitchers but on opening day, there were 132 on the injured list (IL). In total, there were 166 players on the…
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How Not to Start a Season
Only in the world of Major League Baseball, can you start a season, take a break and then start it again almost ten days later. Here is the timeline of the start of this year’s season: It is funny how MLB markets March 28th, since they call it Opening Day, even though the first regular…
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Strike Two on MLB Uniforms
As we noted this past summer, MLB chose a less than inspiring line of uniforms for its last All-Star game. Evidently, MLB did not learn from those fashion reviews, since they have now followed that up with see-through uniforms that have both the players and the Players Association up in arms over the new duds.…
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Brazilians and Baseball?
When one thinks of Brazil, you did not think of baseball. Of course, the one and only sport for the vast majority of Brazilians is football (soccer for us Americans). Baseball on the other hand is not even a thought for many Brazilians, except for a small minority of the population. Despite the lack of…
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The Poor Get Poorer
As we noted previously, MLB’s greatest greatest problem is the fact that there is a distinct gap between the rich and poor teams. If you are a fan of teams like the Mets, Yankees or Dodgers, you do not have to live with the fear that your club will have to jettison their most talented…
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So Little Time
MLB was not satisfied with the original pitch clock rule changes they instituted prior to the 2023 season that shortened games a “whopping” 24 minutes from 2022 levels. As outraged as we were here at BP that MLB decided to implement a timer to the game of baseball that previously never had been on a…
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MLB Salaries and the Other Leagues: Yes There is a Difference!
As we noted in our last post (Rich vs Poor), there is a large chasm between the wealthiest and the poorest clubs in the MLB landscape. We wondered whether this difference between the haves and the have nots was also true in the other sports. In the table below we compare MLB with the other…
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Rich vs Poor
The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years). Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…
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Happy Festivus!
and a Happy New Year.
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Keith Hernandez: Greatest Moments
In this post, we will look at some of the greatest moments of Keith Hernandez, who played for 17 seasons mostly for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets. In Hernandez’s storied career he accomplished the following: In addition, many consider Hernandez to be the best defensive first baseman of all time. As…
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Singapore Major Leaguer
It was never our intention, prior to creating Baseball Purist, to spend all of our time focusing on the ills of the current game, in terms of the most recent rule changes. If that were the case, then this blog would simply be too negative. Instead, we will spend posts such as this one to…
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Sadly We Once Again Revisit the Oakland A’s john fisher
We never imagined when we started this site that one person would provide so much content, but unfortunately for Oakland A’s fans that is the case with their owner john fisher. In sad and not surprising fashion, MLB approved the move of the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas. As we mentioned in prior posts (here…
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