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2:40 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close Pedro Gomez of ESPN covered Oakland A’s home for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento B and almost every day from 1992-97 and then became …
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Randy Azarjina has done it again. The Tampa Bay Rays Rocky outfielder hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning by Lance Macular Jr., giving the Rains an …
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At the end of every day during baseball postson, I run a set of simulations to estimate the updated probabilities and the final result of the brackets for each series. I add …
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7:00 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close Pedro Gomez of ESPN covered Oakland A’s home for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento B and almost every day from 1992-97 and then became …
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