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Beside The Points For Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017

Things That Caught My Eye Ohtani narrows it to seven Japanese pitcher Shohei Ohtani has narrowed his search for a MLB team down to seven, with New York and Boston notably absent from the list. Right now Ohtani looks to be 20 percent higher than the league average in ERA and on-base-plus-slugging, which is nuts. […]

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Beside The Points For Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017

Things That Caught My Eye Ohtani narrows it to seven Japanese pitcher Shohei Ohtani has narrowed his search for a MLB team down to seven, with New York and Boston notably absent from the list. Right now Ohtani looks to be 20 percent higher than the league average in ERA and on-base-plus-slugging, which is nuts. […]

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Beside The Points For Monday, Dec. 4, 2017

Things That Caught My Eye Chapecoense make a return! Five days after the one-year anniversary of the crash that killed 71 people and nearly destroyed the Chapecoense soccer team, the rebuilt Brazilian club clinched a return to the 2018 Copa Libertadores, the very tournament that the 2016 squad was traveling to compete in the final […]

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Beside The Points For Monday, Dec. 4, 2017

Things That Caught My Eye Chapecoense make a return! Five days after the one-year anniversary of the crash that killed 71 people and nearly destroyed the Chapecoense soccer team, the rebuilt Brazilian club clinched a return to the 2018 Copa Libertadores, the very tournament that the 2016 squad was traveling to compete in the final […]

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Beside The Points For Friday, Dec. 1, 2017

Things That Caught My Eye Kansas City shuffling out of the playoffs The Chiefs have been really bad for the past several weeks, so bad that their very season is in jeopardy. Looking at their team’s Elo rating between Week 5 and Week 12, the -116 point difference is the largest meltdown observed of teams […]

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