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LoveMyTeam.com · 4h ago

The Best Team in the American League

Could you believe that the best team in the American League as we head into Memorial Day weekend is the Baltimore Orioles?  While the Rays and the Red Sox get into scrums on the field, the Orioles are just keeping their heads down and rounding the bases.  While Josh Hamilton is on fire for the [...]
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LoveMyTeam.com · 6h ago

May 26, 2012

May 26, 1990 - Philadelphia retire #20 in honor of hall-of-fame 3B Mike Schmidt. Schmidt is considered by many to be the greatest third basemen of all time, tallying three NL MVPs, eight NL home run titles, and a World Series MVP. Today’s Key Matchups: Indians @ White Sox, 4:10 PM, ET: Lowe (6-2, 2.
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LoveMyTeam.com · 1d ago

May 25, 2012

May 25, 2012 - Boston Red Sox LF Ted Williams raises his batting average over .400 for the first time of the season. Williams finished the season with a .406 average and no player since has finished with an average of .400 or greater. Today’s Key Matchups: Rays @ Red Sox, 7:10 PM, ET: Cobb (1-0, 2.5
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LoveMyTeam.com · 2d ago

Strikeouts — Player Analysis

On Monday we started to explore strikeouts and looked at the lists for the all-time leaders in career strikeouts and strikeouts in a season.  We saw that Nolan Ryan currently holds the record for both strikeouts in a career and strikeouts in a season (post-1900), and now we’ll look at Ryan’s career
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LoveMyTeam.com · 2d ago

Marlins Park Firsts

I’ll be heading to Miami at some point soon, but saw this and thought it might fun for some Thursday reading.  It seems retrosheet has already started tracking the firsts for the new ballpark.  Here are some of the highlights. Batting Batter Rafael Furcal (groundout) Hit Carlos Beltran (sin
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LoveMyTeam.com · 3d ago

Reading Between the Lines with the Rockies

Rockies owner, Dick Monfort, spoke with Patrick Saunders yesterday and stood up for his manager and General Manager.   The Rockies are off to one of the worst starts in franchise history.  If you go back to 2010, the team is 40 games under .500 according to Saunders.  But Monfort firmly believes tha
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LoveMyTeam.com · 4d ago

Home Run Trivia

Today’s contest features The Home Run Heard ‘Round the World: The Dramatic Story of the 1951 Giants-Dodgers Pennant Race (Dover Baseball), a great book by sports historian Ray Robinson about the 1951 home run that won the pennant for the New York Giants.  The book outlines the circumstances surround
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LoveMyTeam.com · 4d ago

Who are Baseball’s Best Broadcasters?

Over the next few weeks, I am going to have a lot of opportunity to use my MLB app on my iphone to listen to some games.  The problem is that with the app, I can listen to any game I want, and so I find myself bouncing back and forth between games and never [...]
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LoveMyTeam.com · 5d ago

Strikeouts

This week we will look at strikeouts, which is the pitching equivalent to home runs.  This is because pitchers that have high strikeout rates or batters that hit lots of home runs are usually the most exciting players in the game.  Stephen Strasburg, who has been discussed here before and his starts
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LoveMyTeam.com · 5d ago

Kerry Wood

Kerry Wood retired this weekend.  He had a 14- year career that started with more promise than perhaps any other player in baseball history.  Like so many touted as the next Mickey Mantle, Wood showed up on the scene and made his name for himself- with a 20 strikeout game at age 20.  He was [...]
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