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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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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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Reflections and notes from the Winter Meetings
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Slowly, sometimes reluctantly, major league baseball executives are trickling into the Gaylord Hotel—which they will find is larger than Newfoundland– here on the Potomac River....
View ArticleVideo: Gammons on Indians and young arms
Peter Gammons joins Harold Reynolds and Hot Stove on MLB Network to discuss Michael Brantley resuming baseball activities, Andrew Miller in the playoffs, Carlos Beltran, the value of young pitching and...
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Peter Gammons: Keeping up with the Cubs and Indians
Dave Cameron did a fascinating piece on FanGraphs comparing the youthful talent of the Cubs to past youth-dominated powerhouses like the 1978 Expos and 1975 Red Sox, and over the next five years one...
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Bill Chuck: World Series Game One – By The Numbers
World Series Game One – By The Numbers 1 – Kyle Schwarber had one hit last night in his amazing recovery from April surgery; he now has one hit this season in total 2 – Roberto Perez had the first...
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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: Blue Jays and Indians are cut from the same cloth
While we have watched chilling, complex layers of wild card play-ins into the League Championship Series, with innings that like the Cubs ninth in San Francisco that ended the Giants season, the...
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Peter Gammons: A deserved celebration and an unforgettable goodbye
It was one of those BP moments. David Ortiz, as was the team tradition, was finishing up in the last four man hitting group before the Red Sox went to the clubhouse, while Jason Kipnis, part of the...
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Peter Gammons: Developed relievers making the difference
In the end, the cost is never knowing. Back on August 18th, the Red Sox were coming off a rain-delayed night game in Baltimore. Flew to Detroit, landed at 6 a.m. and courtesy of whatever Tiger...
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The Yankees bullpen troika means the starters need to only go six
Aroldis Chapman will be the closer for the Yankees whose starters had a .276 BAA the third time they faced a batter in a game last season Yankees manager Joe Girardi on the YES Network last night...
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Sunday MLB Nine to Notes: From the Bill Chuck Files of 1/10/16
The great new Scoutables app points out that last season, Albert Pujols hit changeups ineffectively when in play, batting .204 (.320 is average). Nine to Know: From the Bill Chuck Files of 1/10/16 Last...
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