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Peter Gammons: The modest, humble, and ego free teammate, Mike Trout
By the time there was ten days remaining in spring training, Mike Morin thought he’d make it out of Arizona in the Angels bullpen, but he didn’t know it, not for certain. He was coming off a year in...
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Peter Gammons: The lost game of pepper, Astros’ analytical approach, chess,...
Ted Williams used to play pepper almost every day, for what he said was the feel of manipulating the bat and getting the daily feel of exacting the barrel of the bat to the ball. Yet, for a number of...
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Peter Gammons: All Star Game pitching leaves something to be desired
SAN DIEGO—The All Star Game is really Coachella, or, if you missed that, October’s Desert Trip in Indio, CA. It matters because it is a three day festival, especially when you get San Diego weather...
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Trade Paparazzis
One rule change that baseball has improved is the July 31 trade deadline. It has made the month of July an exciting month pennant races finally coming into focus for players on the field, fans in...
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Peter Gammons: A year’s difference makes all the difference for Rich Hill
When Rich Hill awakened to the morning after his Wednesday Dodger debut, he tried to remember where he was on August 24th last year. “I know I was in Pawtucket,” he says, with no recollection of...
View ArticleVideo: Peter Gammons on Kershaw, the Pirates and Mets’ playoff chances, and more
Peter Gammons joins Lauren Shehadi and MLB Central on MLB Network to discuss Clayton Kershaw, the Pirates’ playoff chances and if the Mets can make a run
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Peter Gammons: Managing playoff pitching staffs
It may be that we have no idea how the World Series can end before the election if we end up with two- and three-way ties when the regular season ends and the play-ins are supposed to begin, but, the...
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Peter Gammons: Postseason bullpen management proves more crucial than ever
Don’t even try to explain bloody drones and seven relievers to win one game, or how Clayton Kershaw can save one game and come back 48 hours later and throw seven shutout innings in another, or how...
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Peter Gammons: With respect to 1st rounders, winning takes a much wider...
We understand the importance of Monday’s draft. Bryce Harper, Kris Bryant, Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts, Dustin Pedroia, Aaron Judge, C.C. Sabathia, Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa, Paul...
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Peter Gammons: 2017 ASG was fun and the way the event should be
How the 1981 All Star Game ended really didn’t matter. There was no twitter, no television or radio sport shock-talk, no blogs, so when American League manager Jim Frey had to bat Blue Jays pitcher...
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Peter Gammons: Buying and developing starters in an inefficient market
We all get it. There is Chris Sale and Corey Kluber, Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, when they are healthy, but wins are not what they were when Bob Welch won 27. But begin an analytical...
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Peter Gammons: Lester shelved, Astros’ pitching, Marlins ownership, and more
Of course Cubs fans were dispirited Friday morning after Jon Lester had to leave Thursday’s game after five outs and nine runs with a lat strain that required an MRI. The Cubs starters were already...
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Peter Gammons: Historic view of the state of the Dodgers
Earlier this week, Joe Sheehan looked at the nine teams that had .700 winning percentages. The two best, the 1906 Cubs (.763) and 1909 Pirates (.724) played more than a century ago, played a far...
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Peter Gammons: Moving on from the anticipated departure of John Farrell
Right after one of the network pregame shows Saturday, a current manager called. “I listened to Joe Girardi and John Farrell being bashed by talk show and ex-player guys,” he said, heatedly, “people...
View ArticleVideos: Peter joins MLB Network in LA before Game 1
Peter joins High Heat to give some perspective on the Astros-Dodgers World Series matchup… Peter joins MLB Now before Game 1 to talk about the World Series featuring two 100-win teams… Peter discusses...
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Peter Gammons: A few thoughts as we start 2018
So we’re in 2018. The owners have their tax cuts. But they also have luxury tax threshold of $197M with serious disincentives not to cross, at least not this winter, which, in accordance with their...
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