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05-23

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, May 23
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Matthew Kory

05-23

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Out of Left Field: Watching Baseball with a 4-Year-Old
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Matthew Kory

05-22

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Daily Hit List: Wednesday, May 22
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Matthew Kory

05-16

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, May 16
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Matthew Kory

05-15

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Daily Hit List: Wednesday, May 15
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Matthew Kory

05-15

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Out of Left Field: Did the Dodgers Make Suckers of the Red Sox?
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Matthew Kory

05-09

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, May 9
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Matthew Kory

05-08

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Daily Hit List: Wednesday, May 8
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Matthew Kory

05-08

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Out of Left Field: Your Summer Baseball Gift Guide
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Matthew Kory

05-03

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Daily Hit List: Friday, May 3
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Matthew Kory

05-02

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, May 2
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Matthew Kory

05-02

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Out of Left Field: Will Middlebrooks, and Beating Oneself
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Matthew Kory

04-26

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Daily Hit List: Friday, April 26th
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Matthew Kory

04-25

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 25th
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Matthew Kory

04-23

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Out of Left Field: Boston Uncommon
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Matthew Kory

04-19

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Daily Hit List: Friday, April 19
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Matthew Kory

04-18

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 18
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Matthew Kory

04-12

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Daily Hit List: Friday, April 12
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Matthew Kory

04-11

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 11
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Matthew Kory

04-05

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Daily Hit List: Friday, April 5
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Matthew Kory

04-04

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 4
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Matthew Kory

04-04

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Out of Left Field: The Way of the Gun
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Matthew Kory

03-27

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Prospectus Preview: These Questions Three: The Cautiously Optimistic
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Matthew Kory and Paul Sporer

03-26

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Out of Left Field: Wrongs of Spring
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Matthew Kory

03-19

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Out of Left Field: The More You Know
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Matthew Kory

03-12

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Out of Left Field: The Letting Go
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Matthew Kory

03-05

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Out of Left Field: Cabrera, Trout, and the Baserunning Portion of WARP
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Matthew Kory

02-28

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Out of Left Field: Revisiting a Blockbuster
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Matthew Kory

02-19

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Out of Left Field: The 10,786 Miles Not Technically Traveled By Sandy Rosario
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Matthew Kory

02-15

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Arbitration Showdown: Mock Hearing: Dexter Fowler
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Maury Brown, Matthew Kory and Ben Lindbergh

02-07

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Out of Left Field: Shorting the Red Sox
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Matthew Kory

01-29

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Out of Left Field: Teaching Myself to Hit
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Matthew Kory

01-22

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Out of Left Field: Why You Should Quit Caring About Salaries
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Matthew Kory

01-15

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Out of Left Field: Giving Miami the Silent Treatment
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Matthew Kory

01-09

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Out of Left Field: Jumping the Gun on 2013 Predictions
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Matthew Kory

12-18

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Out of Left Field: What the Internet Can Teach Us About Koji Uehara
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Matthew Kory

12-07

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Transaction Analysis: Red Sox Get Koji
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Matthew Kory

12-04

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Out of Left Field: Josh Hamilton and Talking
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Matthew Kory

11-27

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Out of Left Field: The Least Valuable Player
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Matthew Kory

11-20

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Out of Left Field: Fish Out Of Contention
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Matthew Kory

11-13

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Out of Left Field: What $205 Million Buys on the Free Agent Market
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Matthew Kory

11-06

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Out of Left Field: Can We Make Adrian Beltre the MVP?
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Matthew Kory

10-29

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Out of Left Field: Postseason Celebrations: A Celebration
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Matthew Kory

10-17

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Playoff Prospectus: ALCS Game Four Preview: Yankees at Tigers
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Matthew Kory

10-16

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Out of Left Field: Trading A-Rod: How, Where, and Why
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Matthew Kory

10-10

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Playoff Prospectus: ALDS Game Three Preview: Orioles at Yankees
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Matthew Kory

10-09

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Out of Left Field: It's a Trap!
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Matthew Kory

10-04

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Daily Hit List: Thursday, October 4
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Matthew Kory

10-03

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Daily Hit List: Wednesday, October 3
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Matthew Kory

10-02

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Daily Hit List: Tuesday, October 2
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Matthew Kory

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April 26, 2013 6:27 am

Daily Hit List: Friday, April 26th

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Matthew Kory

Half of all the baseball teams that played yesterday lost.

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April 25, 2013 8:40 am

Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 25th

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Matthew Kory

Justin Upton continues to have himself a season.

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WIth a city grieving, baseball came through.

The role of sports during times of tragedy has been debated in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. How can one cheer, yell, and feel joy in a time so filled with sadness? I suppose the answer is up for each of us to decide on our own, but it seems that, in times such as these, when heartbreak and fear have touched us so deeply and it’s all we can do to not break down and cry, sports has the power to help unite us in common purpose. It can alleviate, however slightly, our sadness, and through that, can help us feel a little less sad and a little less alone. Maybe that’s putting too much on it, but that’s the way I feel.

On Saturday the Red Sox returned home for the first time since the bombings at the Boston Marathon. On a sunny Saturday afternoon in an exhausted and shaken city a baseball game was played. And it was perfect.

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April 19, 2013 10:06 am

Daily Hit List: Friday, April 19

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Matthew Kory

We made it, everybody. We made it to the end of the week! (Unless you're a major-league baseball team. Keep playing!)

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April 18, 2013 10:26 am

Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 18

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Matthew Kory

An extremely, extremely important fact about Ryan Braun and the Brewers.

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April 12, 2013 9:21 am

Daily Hit List: Friday, April 12

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Matthew Kory

The A's are on top, so take that all you haters (and also all you h8ers)

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April 11, 2013 9:49 am

Daily Hit List: Thursday, April 11

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Matthew Kory

Everything's better in a list format!

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April 5, 2013 10:41 am

Daily Hit List: Friday, April 5

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Matthew Kory

Among other things, a brief discussion of the team pickoffs leaderboard.

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Nationals at the top! Marlins at the bottom! Who needs 162 games?

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April 4, 2013 5:00 am

Out of Left Field: The Way of the Gun

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Matthew Kory

Jake McGee and the meaning of fastballs.

It sure is nice to have actual baseball to talk about again. Tuesday, the Rays were facing the Orioles and, up 3-2 in the top of the seventh, Joe Maddon brought Jake McGee in to relieve David Price. There are some things worth noting about Jake McGee. 

Thing One: Dude Throws Fast
With each McGee pitch, the velocity readings on SunSports’ graphic seemed to get bigger and bigger. There’s no way Jake McGee throws 97 all the time, right? I mean, Jake McGee? There must be some bias in the home broadcast network’s radar gun. That’s always something I’ve heard, that the speeds you see on television are unreliable, that television networks pump up the speeds for their own pitchers. I wondered if that was true, so I decided to do a little experiment. I watched the half inning over again on the Rays TV network (SunSports) and wrote down their posted speed for every pitch. Then I did the same thing again, but this time for the Orioles network (MASN). Then I checked the speeds against those posted on MLB GameDay and on our own Brooks Baseball.


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The third installment of a five-part series on the pressing questions confronting each team in 2013.

In the week leading up to Opening Day, we're asking and answering three questions about each team in a five-part series ordered by descending Playoff Pct from the Playoff Odds Report. Today, we continue with a look at the group of six teams with the third-highest odds of winning at least a Wild Card. As a reminder, you can find links to our preview podcasts for each team here.

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March 26, 2013 5:00 am

Out of Left Field: Wrongs of Spring

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Matthew Kory

Spring training does not bring out the best in everybody, as Matt found.

They say spring training can’t teach you anything. I watched nine whole innings of spring training baseball last Saturday to try to disprove that and I thought I’d share my findings with you.

1. Jealousy

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