The David Wright All-Star snub: Part II

For the second straight year, David Wright is in line to be snubbed from the starting NL lineup in the All-Star game. And for the second straight year, the public outrage ensues. But who’s to blame for this fiasco and what can be done to fix it? When this first happened last year, fans took [...]

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Are Juan Lagares and Kirk Nieuwenhuis really good defensive outfielders?

Generally speaking, if we have a large enough sample, we can make pretty good judgments on a player based on his statistics. If you never saw them play, it would be easy to look at numbers and determine that Dave Kingman had great power, John Olerud had a great eye and Jose Reyes was a [...]

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Mets Card of the Week: 1999 Mike Piazza

1999 FLEER BOYZ WITH THE WOOD MIKE PIAZZA The end of the Topps monopoly in 1981 led eventually to the insert-set explosion of the 1990s. However, the practice of adding these bonus cards to packs began with a whimper, not a bang. Topps included glossy all-star cards with its 1984 rack packs-- the cards were [...]

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