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Travis Nelson's Baseball Blog: Baseball Trade Rumors, News, Commentary, Trivia, Statistical Analysis, and Book Reviews from Major League & Fantasy Baseball

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02 August 2013

My First Game Ever, I Think

I noticed a feature on Geoff Young's blog about the first game he ever attended , and though I have alluded to my analogous experience...

20 September 2012

The New Oriole Way: No Need for Good Pitchers in Baltimore

The New York Yankees maintained the slimmest of leads - just half a game - in their pursuit of another AL East Division Title yesterday by...

28 August 2012

Phillies are Disappointing-est of All

ESPN's David Schoenfield had a bit Monday morning about how the LAnahfornia Angels are baseball's biggest disappointment , no...

23 July 2012

The Oakland A's Swept the Yankees, Still Won't Make Playoffs

I'm not sure whether I was more surprised to see that the Yankees suffered a 4-game sweep by the Oakland A's this weekend or that t...

26 April 2012

Yu Darvish and a Look at Early Dominant Pitching

Question: What do Tim Fortugno, Mariano Rivera , Bob Milacki, Tim Wakefield , Dennis Ribant and Hall of Famer Juan Marichal have in commo...

15 February 2012

Yoenis Cespedes: Why the A's Just Threw Away $36M

The normally frugal Oakland A's this week signed outfielder Yoenis Cespedes , the latest Cuban defector, who is expected to be...well...

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Travis M. Nelson: Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States; Blogging the Yankees and whatever else occurs to me, usually way too infrequently, since 2002.

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