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The 2020 baseball season, if it finishes, will go down as The Year of the Pandemic. The Year of the Sprint. The Year of the Unseemly Battle Over Finances. The Year of the Ace? Hard to see it. Except for one timeless reality: Whichever team’s pitchers throw like aces in October, those guys possess an …
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When the coronavirus shut down spring training on March 12 the Yankees were the favorites to win the AL East despite not having Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Hicks and Luis Severino for the scheduled March 26 start of the regular season. Now with a 60-game schedule beginning Thursday in Washington against the defending World …
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Rewind to early March, when life still seemed mostly normal and the countdown was underway to the Mets opening the 2020 season. At the time, the Mets didn’t resemble a team that was an obvious favorite in the NL East, but likewise it was hard to say they shouldn’t compete for first place. The lineup …
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They say that somewhere in the world there is someone who looks just like you, and it just so happens that Max Scherzer’s doppelgänger resides five miles from Nationals Park. “I was at a grocery store [in 2015] going down the aisle and a random guy was yelling at me, ‘Hey Max, Max,’ and I …
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The Post’s Ken Davidoff previews the NL East. 1. New York Mets O/U wins: 32 Key player: OF/DH Yoenis Cespedes. In his four years as an active Met, Cespedes has tallied a 138 OPS+, his best output for any of the four major league teams for which he has played. If he could produce at …