Posted by thesportsjunky on September 14, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The MLB season is coming to an end and as it marches towards the postseason a few players are seeing an uncertain future including one who gave everything to his team only to decline just as they rise.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on May 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The MLB has been like every other major sports league has kept betting at an arm’s length but with the recent Supreme Court decision will force them to reconcile a potential business opportunity with a checkered past.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on May 11, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Every part of the world is under intense scrutiny when it comes to serious cases of domestic violence and the sports world is now focused on the MLB who are in the midst of their own domestic violence case.
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The MLB is like any other league as they are constantly seeking stars but when the stars begin to falter things can get ugly really quickly, which is seen in New York where Matt Harvey has gone from hero to potentially done.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on March 28, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The American League West was supposed to be a pretty goo battle in 2017 but that battle never came to light and this year might be a lot of the same as the West remains a division ruled by one very good team.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on March 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The American League West looked like it was headed to becoming a very competitive division but it never panned out leaving one team on top which is where they hope to stay at the end of 2017 despite the rising of a few teams in the west.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on December 28, 2016 · Leave a Comment
If teams were debating whether to rest their stars as the season winds down, Week 16 may have given them plenty of reasons to go the safe route after injuries hurt a few teams heading into the playoffs.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 29, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The MLB may be over with the official steroid era but that doesn’t mean that the league is over dealing with the issues that the era brought with it.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on March 29, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The AL West may not have the same history as their NL counterparts but a rivalry is forming and it could once again define the race in the division.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 2, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The MLB Postseason race is just about over with more teams finally clinching their spot to compete for the World Series.
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