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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Nico

Sam Fels February 28, 2020 0

Nico Hoerner wouldn’t be the first kid to be tossed into an emergency situation and end up a team fixture for a long while. It’s just that I can’t really think of another one. K-Rod? Willson Contreras wasn’t thrown into an emergency, he just played his way into a

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New World Order: 202 White Sox Player Previews – Edwin Encarnacion

Andy Jonathan February 28, 2020 0

Here we arrive at the player who represents something the Sox desperately needed and haven’t had since Jim (HI ITS JI-) Thome took his whoopin stick up I-94 up to the Land Of Ice And First Round Flameouts: above average production out of the DH position. Having pretty much created slugging percentage at every stop […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Bote Bote Bote…Bote!

Sam Fels February 27, 2020 0

When you absolutely have to have a Cub do a kind of adorable yet still annoying gender reveal, David Bote is your man. And he might be the man for the Cubs at second and occasionally third and short, because there’s always a chance that Nico Hoerner stalls out in Iowa and there’s a much […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Player Previews – Jose Abreu

Andy Jonathan February 27, 2020 0

Moving along the diamond we come to the deepest position for the Sox infield, 1st base. It also contains the most tenured and respected player on the team, Jose Abreu. Nestled into the middle of the Sox “Sold B+” off-season was a 3 year extension for Jose. While the contract itself was a source of […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Preview: The Rizz-inator

Sam Fels February 26, 2020 0

You know the Cubs offseason was even more off-kilter when Anthony Rizzo, perhaps the happiest and jolliest man on the planet, shows up at The Convention spitting fire. He was pissed about the attempts to trade Kris Bryant, he was pissed about the Cubs refusal to even discuss an extension with him, he was pissed […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Previews – Zack Collins

Adam Hess February 26, 2020 0

The first roster-fringe player we cover on our 2020 Sox Preview series is Zack Collins. While there is not a guarantee that Collins will make the Opening Day roster, he probably should get a good long look before the Sox decide to burn another option and send him down to AAA for however long, as […]

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Yes Movement – 2020 Chicago Cubs Player Previews: Caratini, Shaken Not Stirred

Sam Fels February 25, 2020 0

We move along…well, we’re not really moving along because we’re staying behind the plate. For a large swath of the offseason, it was thought that Victor Caratini would move into the starter’s role as the Cubs cashed in on Willson Contereras. But that didn’t happen, or hasn’t happened yet, and Caratini will remain in a […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Previews – James McCann

Wes French February 25, 2020 0

James McCann finds himself in a new world of a different kind in 2020: Backup Catcher, staring at the high likelihood of not reaching 100 games played for the first time in his career since his short debut at the end of 2014. McCann’s 2019 was a pleasant surprise, a torrid start helping to see […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Previews – Yasmani Grandal

Adam Hess February 24, 2020 0

We kick off our 2020 White Sox world takeover season preview series with the most exciting and probably the most impactful free agent signing by the White Sox in any of our lifetimes, Yasmani Grandal. As the first major domino of this past offsesaon to fall by signing bright and early – before Thanksgiving, even […]

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Never Should Have Been That Hard

Sam Fels February 20, 2020 0

The leadoff spot for the Cubs has been an overhyped black hole for a few years now. It was never that hard, but the Cubs kept making it so. And they made it so by sticking hitters that are either bad altogether (Almora, Descalso, whatever other idiot you can think of) or were struggling at […]