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Baseball, Right Now | #5 | The Midseason Report: the Miz, the Fish, and the Trade Deadline Chaos in Waiting
The 2026 All-Star Break has arrived. It’s referred to as “midseason,” despite coming closer to the 60% point of the 162-game season. Another one of baseball’s silly quirks. Let’s take a look at where things stand as we break from the grind of the season and come ever closer to the August 3 trading deadline.…
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Revisiting the Trade that Brought Yordan Alvarez to the Houston Astros
August 3, 2026 marks the MLB’s trading deadline. Over the next few weeks, teams will decide whether they want to win this year or punt to the future. Veterans and prospects alike will be traded. Usually, two teams come together to make a mutually beneficial trade that will get the respective club closer to their…
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The Miraculous Breakthrough of Jordan Walker: Thinking Less and Hitting More
This is a story about a baseball player, but, first, I want to talk about golf. A near-universal experience for a golfer comes not on the physical course, but on the mental island that most cast themselves in exile to after inevitable mistakes or bad luck. If you have golfed in your life, you can…
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Baseball, Right Now | #4 | The Phillies are a new team, the Cubs have magic this year, and Cal Raleigh wishes the calendar never flipped to 2026.
The end of the semester, coupled with an overjammed work and life schedule have led to this edition of BRN to be released a few weeks late. But late is better than never. Without further ado, let’s talk baseball now that we have a little over a QUARTER of the season under our belts. There’s…
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Baseball, Right Now | #3 | Ohtani Continues to do Ohtani Things, Mike Trout is Making Baseball Fans Everywhere Happy, and Are the Mets Down For the Count?
The third installment of Baseball, Right Now is here. Lots of fun stuff to talk about, so let’s get to it. Where things stand 2026 MLB Standings after April 19, 2026 games. Team | Record | Games Back in Division | Run Differential (Runs Scored – Runs Allowed) AL East: AL Central: AL West: NL East:…
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Baseball, Right Now | #2 | The Fish are Swimming, the Giants are Stumbling, and the Kids are Here to Play
The second installment of Baseball, Right Now is here. The standings after a week of baseball are doing what we expected: not giving us much in the grand scheme of a 162-game season, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t learned anything yet. Where things stand 2026 MLB Standings Team | Record | Run Differential (Runs…
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Is ABS the first step toward robot umpires in MLB?
The automatic ball-strike (ABS) challenge system coming to baseball is ushering in a new era of baseball strategy. In a sport that has seen much change in recent years, this installment merely adds to the heated debate surrounding human umpires, but it shouldn’t be as dire as many think. To many, ABS is the first…
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Inner Half: Baseball, Right Now | #1 | Pre-Opening Day 2026
*This is the first installment of a new series, “State of the Season,” to be published every two weeks during the MLB regular season* After a long and exciting offseason, the 2026 MLB regular season officially starts next week when the San Francisco Giants host the New York Yankees on March 25. That means that…
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What a 1959 Baseball Game Can Teach Us About Team Performance: Harvey Haddix’s “Perfect” Game
“It was just another loss, and that is no good.” – Harvey Haddix, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, after his 1959 near-perfect game.
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October of ’04: How Newly Announced Hall of Famer Carlos Beltrán Burst onto the National Stage
An October of a lifetime came via the bat of a 27-year-old Puerto Rican center fielder. A record-tying 8 postseason home runs and a record-tying 5 consecutive postseason games with a home run put the cherry on top of a 12-game stretch that can only be described as legendary. This is the story of now-Hall…
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