Fifth Column: Wearing It
5/13Some nights nothing goes your way, including the manager.
Fifth Column: On A Rule Limiting Intentional Walks
5/10A decade after Barry Bonds, a few days after Bryce Harper: On the search for a solution to what might or might not be a problem with overzealous intentional walkers.
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5/06Baseball movies were better in my day.
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5/05Can teams tell the difference between Bad and Weird?
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: The Shift: I Am Girardicus
4/29Three years ago, Michael was dead wrong about the shift. He still is, but now he has a powerful ally.
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4/28One look at the uncertainty of your favorite prospect.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: Chasing 19 (or 20, or 21) Strikeouts
4/22The 19-strikeout game is rarer than the perfect game, but is it more impressive? The answer is complicated, and time-sensitive.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: A Frankly Simple Explanation Of The Phillie Phanatic’s Birthday Party
4/18If you're unsure what happened in Philadelphia this weekend, here's the takeaway: Anthropologists of the future will judge us.
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4/14On philosophy's place in modern baseball.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: The Week In Pain
4/11Six months of waiting end in almost immediate disappointment for two players.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: The Long-Term Future of the Rangers’ Third Base Situation
4/08What happens when the surest thing in baseball gets too old for an extension? If you aren't careful, things get weird.
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3/31No matter how good life seems to be going, there's always Dom Brown there to remind me.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: Davey Lopes, But His Players Run Like Crazy
3/18Does Davey Lopes bring a magic stopwatch with him to Washington?
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3/11/Insert pun about submarine pitchers, which the reader will understand soon enough.
continue reading chevron_rightchevron_rightFifth Column: Ranking the Year’s Inside-The-Park Home Runs
3/07Eleven short stories: Comedies, tragedies, sagas, and more.
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