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A Glance and a Gander: LMP

For a while now this website has been trending more and more towards independent or unaffiliated baseball coverage. When I released the Baseball Streaming Guide I think that’s when I first realized that this site was going to probably trend more towards 70% unaffiliated, 20% historical, and 10% affiliated coverage. It’s not that I don’t […]

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BillCubbieBlueBill Thompson@BillCubbieBlue·
December 12, 2019

Report from @JballAllen that Pierce Johnson will not be returning to the Hanshin Tigers in 2020 and is seeking a return to MLB. Some club is going to get a great reliever who really figured things out in his short NPB stint,

https://jballallen.com/the-kotatsu-league-buffaloes-jonesing-for-proven-big-league-power/

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BillCubbieBlueBill Thompson@BillCubbieBlue·
December 12, 2019

Cal him Dad, Home Run, or Grant Johnson, no matter which name you choose he was one of the best Deadball Era players. It's a shame people don't talk about Home Run Johnson the same way they do white Deadball Era stars. Get to know the forgotten legend,

https://wordsabovereplacement.com/home-run-johnson-amazes/

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BillCubbieBlueBill Thompson@BillCubbieBlue·
December 12, 2019

ICYMI: Yesterday I wrote about my 2020 @IBWAA Hall of Fame ballot. Jeter, Sheffield, Sosa, Rolen, Walker, Helton, Jones, and Ramírez all got votes. Abreu, Giambi, and Schilling did not, for very different reasons,

https://wordsabovereplacement.com/2020-ibwaa-hall-of-fame/

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