Life at the Margins: Kris Bryant’s Changing Changes
9/09There's a spring training story about Kris Bryant's choices, and a September story about Kris Bryant's season. Do they communicate with each other?
Life at the Margins: Seager See, Seager Do
7/20The world's been terrible, but the Seagers have been joy.
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7/08Are contact, line-drive hitters better positioned to succeed against this era's best pitchers?
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6/17Last chance to find out about Adam Duvall.
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6/07Why pitchers' gameplan starts with the pitcher.
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6/03Within Mookie Betts' otherworldliness, baseball happened.
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5/26The improbably predictable Giants.
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5/19Firing Fredi Gonzalez is no cause for celebration in Atlanta. Right now, nothing is.
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5/13Fact-checking Farhan.
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5/05It's too soon to say conclusively that Aaron Nola's six excellent starts aren't a fluke, but we can definitely say they aren't an accident.
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4/27Rethinking Dusty Baker, with the help of some Nationals.
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4/20...an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of...
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4/18How the old adage is probably wrong, and how a pitcher's reputation might make his manager do bad things.
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3/28Where the Cubs' rosy World Series odds fit in their history of World Series odds.
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3/21The instant classics of the 2010s.
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