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Peter Gammons: Another February traveling through Florida
PHOENIX—The flight from Tampa to Phoenix is a time to think about how different spring training is in the two states that equally divide the 30 training teams. The difference is driving. Arizona’s...
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Peter Gammons: Notes from early March
PHOENIX—Bryan Shaw has pitched in more games the last four years than anyone, 299, plus 11 more this past October. Cody Allen is fourth with 290 appearances, in addition to 11 more in the last...
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Peter Gammons: 2017 Predictions (Part I)
It sounded like a campaign promise when the words “Cubs and Indians World Series” rolled out last April 1, or, perhaps to give it more credence, an April Fool’s joke. It really did happen, like the...
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Peter Gammons: An abundance of options can make all the difference
The pitching trend-line is obvious. Those who start retire fewer batters per outing virtually every season, down to less than 5 2/3 innings a start. With that, the offense has fueled the relievers’...
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Peter Gammons: Quintana crosses town to Wrigleyville, Springer’s MVP shot,...
The news of the Cubs blockbuster trade featuring Jose Quintana broke around 11 Thursday morning. The phone rang. “So much for the hangovers,” said the major league coach on the other line. “Theo and...
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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: 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...
View ArticleVideo: Hot Stove Cool Music recap and developing more Andrew Millers
Peter joins the boys on Hot Stove to discuss the Boston Hot Stove Cool Music Concert and shares some thoughts on how teams should develop their starting pitchers…
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Peter Gammons: Assembling a pitching staff for 2018
The National League Championship Series was barely over and the Dodgers in the World Series when Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer and Joe Maddon began rethinking the way they develop pitching. They hired Jim...
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