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Marc Normandin

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I got my start writing about baseball for an audience with Beyond the Box Score back in 2005, and have spent the subsequent years writing about the game for Baseball Prospectus, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated among others. I was also the video game editor at Blast Magazine for a few years; sadly, my experience seeing cosplay at gaming conventions won't help me as much here at SB Nation as we all wish it would. I'm currently co-managing SB Nation's Red Sox blog Over the Monster and writing fantasy at RotoHardball.com in addition to contributing at mlb.sbnation.com.

MOST RECENT POSTS

Will Stanton, Trout, Harper, and Heyward get even better?

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Just how much better, if at all, can these four young phenoms get?

Daniel Bard could put the Red Sox bullpen over the top

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Despite his horrific 2012, Bard could be the piece that makes Boston's relief corps nigh unstoppable

Scott Hairston vs. Cody Ross

7

These two players are incredibly similar, but you wouldn't know it based on their brand new contracts

Should Mets get a break on the draft-compensation rules?

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The Mets want free agent Michael Bourn, but don't want to give up the draft pick specified by the rules

The Diamondbacks' odd off-season selling

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Justin Upton isn't the first important piece Arizona has sent packing this winter

How Mike Napoli and the Red Sox settled for one year

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Boston and the free agent dropped from three years to one, but in the end, it will make sense for both parties

What to expect from Kyle Lohse

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Draft pick compensation means he's still a free agent, but will his performance be worth the price anyway?

Michael Morse and an impending trade

22

He might not be traded immediately, but Adam LaRoche means no more Morse in Washington

Dealing with Hall of Fame fatigue

21

It would be good if the Hall of Fame could reverse course and matter again, but if not, eh

Insights IV: Growth, or Players Forever Arriving

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You don't need to search far to make growth analogous with sports. We grow up alongside and with athletes, moving through our lives while they move through their careers. They're an ever-persistent...