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    The past, present and future Hall of Fame thread

    MLB.com did just that a couple of weeks ago. The average number of HoF players playing at any given time since 1900 is 31.
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    Hall of Fame Ballot for 2016 Enshrinement

    It's not someone seriously advocating for Winn. It's part of a series where each day a different candidate is discussed as a way to generate content in an otherwise slow news period.
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    Protecting the Shields -- The Nick Cafardo Thread

    From today's story on David Price: This doesn't make any sense, right?
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    Dodgers expected to hire Dave Roberts as manager

    He'll dive head-first into his duties.
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    Alex Anthopoulos has left the Blue Jays

      But there is no opening because President of Baseball Operations Michael Hill will assume full GM responsibilities. And even if there was an opening, it would be as a faux GM under Hill. 
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    Saving Baseball - Considering Dramatic Restructuring of the Game

      But you can play this game both ways, or any way you like. In any given season there are going to be situations where you can say that a certain race or certain series would be better (or worse) if the postseason format was different. The Blue Jays / Yankees race for the division this year was...
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    Joe Posnanski: Lord of Lists

      Joe talks about it himself a bit in this piece on his blog.
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    2015 Toronto Blue Jays

      And when 'win it all' means advancing to the LCS.
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    ALDS Game Thread

    Reynolds is so bad. Reynolds: He's got a perfect lead, he's going to try to run. Verducci: Price didn't allow a stolen base all year, the most innings pitched without a stolen base allowed since 1968. Reynolds: Oh.
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    2015-16 Offseason News Catch-All Thread

    Rotation or bullpen?
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    HOU to remove Tal's Hill next season

    MLB.com has a video compilation up showing some of the plays on Tal's Hill over the years.
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    May 2015 game thread

    How has he done it? Has he regained speed on his fastball or is he just utilizing his diminished stuff better?
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    Pssssssssssssst 2015 edition

    Stanton with a loud out to the warning track to end the 7th.
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    Help us Eduardo Rodriguez, you're our only hope

      Do you mean the past 12 months? Sorry to pick on you and for being pedantic, but I always see 'calendar year' misused on this site. The calendar year starts on the first of January. The 'past calendar year' doesn't mean the past 12 months. Wikipedia.
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    Protecting the Shields -- The Nick Cafardo Thread

    From yesterday's Sunday Notes, Carfado asks a question ... and just when you think the next quote is going to answer the question, he has Mike Napoli talking about something that has nothing to do with anything.   
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    Bold Predictions for the 2015 Season

    I had a dream last night that the Nats were 90-10 through the first 100 games of the season ... so that's my prediction. The dream (and thus the prediction) didn't say whether they collapsed down the stretch or not.
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    Protecting the Shields -- The Nick Cafardo Thread

      This is how I read it too. It's still terrible, but I thought that part was fairly clear.
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    Who's on your 2016 ballot

      Right, the same with Pedro getting 91.1% and people here not understanding how some voters didn't vote for him. The answer is that some of them looked at his win total and decided it wasn't a HOF-worthy number. You don't have to agree with that to understand that that's still how some voters vote.
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    The 2015 MLB HOF Ballot Tracker

      It's at 2pm. From MLB.com:  
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    The 2015 MLB HOF Ballot Tracker

    Joe Posnanski's ballot:   Bonds, Bagwell, Clemens, Johnson, Martinez, Mussina, Piazza, Raines, Schilling, Smoltz.
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