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Gavin Sheets is off to a solid start in his second full year in the majors, and the Gilman grad is enjoying MLB’s new rules. “It’s nice coming up and not seeing a guy in shallow right field and a third baseman at second base and a shortstop across,” Sheets said. “It frees you up to use the whole field.”
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Stan “The Fan” Charles and Ross Grimsley talk with former GM Jim Duquette about the Orioles’ season so far, the MLB postseason picture and the new rules coming for 2023.
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With strikeouts up and action down across baseball, Jim Henneman wonders if a simple fix could help rescue baseball from the doldrums … and former O’s skipper Buck Showalter weighs in, too.
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Jim Henneman weighs in on MLB’s decision to crack down on pitchers using a foreign substance to get a better grip on the ball, and he says baseball has a history of ignoring rules that already exist — and then making it a big deal when there is an emphasis on enforcing them.
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With so much uncertainty surrounding the 2021 MLB season, Stan “The Fan” Charles says to follow the money regarding how the season may ultimately play out.
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Jim Henneman believes a few of the rules MLB tried during the pandemic-altered 2020 season will stick around, but he hopes one is gone forever.
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Former Orioles closer and current Orioles Radio Network analyst Gregg Olson says this year’s 60-game MLB season will make for an exciting stretch of baseball, though he thinks the commissioner’s office is using the pandemic as a way to test out some new rules.
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Jim Henneman weighs in on some of the possibilities for baseball in 2020, and he says this year could change the designated hitter forever.
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Former Mets GM and current MLB Network Radio host Steve Phillips is in favor of MLB adding an automated strike zone. “[Umpires] are being asked to do something that is impossible,” Phillips said, “and that is to be perfect on every single pitch.”
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