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No point in trying for homers here!

It's not an excuse or anything, but the Royals don't hit home runs because it would be stupid to try to hit home runs. Just ask them.

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The Pirates, Appel, Boras, and the obvious

The Pirates look like they're good, which has me worried, of course.

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Manny Machado and those other guys

Has Manny Machado established himself as one of the game's great young players, right up there with Bryce Harper and Mike Trout?

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Organizational droughts: third base

When was the last time your team developed a star third baseman? To the stat cave! Let me just move this laundry basket out of the way so you can get to the stat cave ...

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Dustin Ackley? It's your fault, sabermetrics.

The Mariners have demoted Dustin Ackley, who just two seasons ago was considered a future star. What happened to Ackley? Eric Wedge thinks he knows.

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The necessary scam of the amateur draft

Tim Marchman of the Wall Street Journal should win an award for this opening sentence: All sports drafts are scams, more or less. Yep. The biggest reason for sports drafts is to keep costs...

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Run differentials tyrannize standings (again)

The Cubs probably deserve to be in fourth place, but the rebuilding effort might be going better than you think.

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About last weekend ...

Lots of stuff happened over the three-day weekend. Here are a few of the notable events.

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Defensive stats and 8-track tapes

About 15 years ago, a film editor named Dean Goodhill invented a new motion picture format that was a vast improvement on existing film technology. Using conventional 35-millimeter film stock, the...

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