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This Month in the NL - June 1983
This Month in RLB June 1983 - NL Rookie of the Month SP Jesse Duch – Saint Louis Cardinals Duch had another outstanding month for the...
wyckoff.kyle
Nov 23, 20213 min read
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This Month in RLB, AL Edition - May 1983
This Month in RLB, AL Edition May 1983 Rookie of the Month RP Josh Wetherhold – Kansas City Royals A fantastic start to the season...
RLB Admin
Nov 16, 20212 min read
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This Month in RLB - May 1983
This Month in RLB May 1983 - NL Rookie of the Month SP Jesse Duch – Saint Louis Cardinals Duch had a fantastic month of May, posting a...
wyckoff.kyle
Nov 16, 20212 min read
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This Month in the RLB - AL (April, 1983)
This Month in RLB April 1983 - AL Rookie of the Month RP Nick Samuelson, Oakland Athletics This lefty certainly plans to be a future...
RLB Admin
Nov 8, 20212 min read
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This Month in RLB - NL
This Month in RLB April 1983 - NL Rookie of the Month SP Darius Cloud, Los Angeles Dodgers Cloud posted a 3-0 record in April to go along...
wyckoff.kyle
Nov 8, 20212 min read
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AL Award Predictions
1983 RLB Preseason Award Predictions – American League Good morning, readers. As promised, I will be taking a look at some AL contenders...
wyckoff.kyle
Oct 29, 20214 min read
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NL Award Predictions
1983 RLB Individual Award Predictions – National League Spring Training has kicked off, and it is time to stop worrying and thinking...
wyckoff.kyle
Oct 28, 20215 min read
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Historic Trades: Parker for Weisberg
To start this series of articles about historic trades I’d like to talk about one of the most controversial trades in the history of the...

David
Oct 9, 20212 min read
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Attendance Correlations (Ticket Price, Wins, and Fan Interest)
I've created three new dashboards to see how Attendance correlates with three different factors: Ticket Price, Wins, and Fan Interest....
Mike Q
Jul 28, 20211 min read
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How Do Arm Slots and Individual Pitches Effect Pitcher Splits?
It is no mystery that both real major league pitchers and OOTP pitches can perform better against one handedness or the other....
Mack
Jul 25, 20214 min read
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1981 NL Central Preview
Chicago Cubs Added: RF Bill Shannon (2.1 WAR), LF J. Robertson (1.0 WAR), P J. Acosta (AAA), LF T. Acosta (AAA), P O. Lomeli (A), P R....

David
May 21, 20218 min read
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1981 NLE Preview
1980 NLE Standings Atlanta Braves 91-71 (Lost NLDS 3-1) Philadelphia Phillies 89-73 Montreal Expos 80-82 Florida Marlins 63-99 New York...
Mike Q
May 18, 20218 min read
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1981 RLB Power Rankings
My power rankings for the upcoming 1981 season. Tiers are arranged as followed: S - The truly elite teams. Pencil these teams into the...
wyckoff.kyle
May 14, 20211 min read
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1981 Pre-Season Power Rankings
The 1980 season saw the crowning of the New York Yankees as World Champions, but 1981 is a new year and teams have re-tooled - it's time...
Mike Q
May 14, 20211 min read
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Personalities - A Deep Dive
We are all aware that players can have personalities and those personalities can influence team chemistry, player development and...
RLB Admin
Apr 5, 20214 min read
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1980 Mid-Year Power Rankings
S Tier: The Reds, Yankees, and Giants are the only teams with win percentages above .650 and all three teams have clear paths to the...
Mike Q
Mar 30, 20213 min read
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1980 Park Factors Review - NL
As stipulated by our commissioner park factors will be adjusted every three years, 1977 was our first year so this new 1980 season will...

David
Mar 7, 20212 min read
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AL Central Preview - 1980
1979 AL central standings: Milwaukee: 112-50 Cleveland: 74-88 Chicago: 72-90 Kansas City: 71-91 Minnesota: 65-97 Minnesota Twins (1979...
Ryan Canfield
Mar 6, 20216 min read
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1980 NL Central Preview
Although the NL Central is only three years old, it has already acquired the reputation as the toughest division in all of baseball. This...
Anthony
Mar 5, 202110 min read
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AL West Preview - 1980
1979 Standings California Angels 98-64 (Division Winner, Lost in the ALDS) Oakland Athletics 95-68 (Tied for WC, lost in 1-game playoff)...
Mack
Mar 4, 20216 min read
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