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  Extended Intro: Remembering the 2016 World Series 

1^st Base (~12:15)

• Awards, thoughts on finalists

• MVPs
• CYs
• RotYs

2^nd Base (~42:00)

• Best of Extract from 2016 season
• Trevor Story
• Danny Duffy (~47:15)

 3^rd Base (~57:15)

Game: Over/Under

Home (~1:16:15) 

• Our trek to Arizona

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1^st Base (~3:15)

• ALCS

• NLCS
• World Series Preview

2^nd Base (~45:15)

• Extract
• Doug: Andrew Miller
  • 2008 GIF
  • 2016 GIF
• Sam: Tyler Naquin (~58:00)

3^rd Base (~1:07:00)

Game: Who Done It?

Home (~1:22:00) 

• Otani!
• Check out this article by Ben Lindbergh

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1^st Base (~1:30)

• NL Playoffs

• Wild Card
• NLDS, CHC vs. SF
• NLDS, LAD vs. WAS

2^nd Base (~36:30)

• Extract
• Doug: Marcus Stroman
• Sam: Addison Russell (~45:30)

3^rd Base (~53:30)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Home (~1:10:15) 

• AL Playoffs
• AL Wild Card
• ALDS, TEX vs. TOR
• ALDS, BOS vs. CLE

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The Most Interesting Man in the World: An Ode to Fern

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1^st Base (~1:15)

• News

• Jose Fernandez

2^nd Base (~13:15)

• Extract
• Fern

3^rd Base (~29:45)

Game: Read Between the Lies: Fern Edition

Home (~45:30) 

• Our favorite moments of Jose Fernandez 

Thanks for all of the joy that you brought to Baseballholics everywhere, Fern. You will be dearly missed, but never forgotten.

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1^st Base (~3:45)

• News

• Stras
• DeGrom
• Carrasco
• R. Hill
• Preller and the Pads
• J. Gray

2^nd Base (~34:00)

• Extract
• Doug: Ivan Nova
• Sam: Brian Dozier (~41:30)

3^rd Base (~52:15)

Game: Tie Breakout

Home (~1:05:15) 

• Homers going up, SP outings getting shorter
• What does it mean?
• Base on this article by Neil Weinberg 

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1^st Base (~3:45)

• News

• Moncada
• Gyorko
• Trea
• Kersh
• Gurriel

2^nd Base (~22:45)

• Extract
• Doug: Kyle Hendricks
• Sam: Jason Heyward

3^rd Base (~43:15)

Game: Order Up

(new game)

Home (~58:30) 

• A look at the standings: the playoff-bound picture heading into the final month 

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1^st Base (~3:15)

• News

• Stras
• Thor
• Aa. Sanchez
• Ga. Sanchez
• Boom goes the Addison

2^nd Base (~25:15)

• Extract
• Sam: Andrew McCutchen
• Doug: Jameson Taillon

3^rd Base (~43:45)

Game: Who Done It?

Home (~1:05:00) 

• Changing the Game 

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1^st Base (~3:15)

• News

• Stanton out for year
• ARod retires
• Prince retires
• Yankee Rooks
• Gomez DFA'd

2^nd Base (~23:15)

• Extract
• Sam: Jake Lamb
• Doug: Joe Musgrove

3^rd Base (~41:30)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Home (~1:01:45) 

• How to pick pitchers in DFS

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1^st Base (~1:45)

• Aftermath of Trade Deadline 2016

2^nd Base (~39:45)

• Extract
• Sam: Francisco Lindor
• Doug: Danny Duffy

3^rd Base (~57:00)

Game: The Wonder Years

Home (~1:11:30) 

• Pitching to Contact

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1^st Base (~3:45)

• News

• Chapman Trade

• Pomeranz Trade
• The Callups: Bregman and Dahl
• Jon Gray and Chris Archer
• Chris Scissorhands

2^nd Base (~23:00)

• Extract
• Sam: Jose Abreu
• Doug: Sean Manaea

3^rd Base (~35:00)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Home (~1:01:15) 

• Trade Deadline: Buyers and Sellers

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1^st Base (~5:00)

• News

• Kershaw

• Harvey
• Kang
• Debuts of Giolito, Taillon, Glasnow

2^nd Base (~28:15)

• Extract
• Doug: Julio Urias
• Sam: Eduardo Nunez

Interlude: Arrieta (~48:00)

3^rd Base (~52:00)

Game: Over/Under

Home (~1:19:15) 

• Occam's Razor, sharp and dull
• Preseason prediction revisited

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1^st Base (~5:45)

• News

• Urias

• Yu back
• Ejecting Thor
• Mookie
• Moustakas

2^nd Base (~25:00)

• Extract
• Doug: Michael Fulmer
• Sam: Carlos Gomez

3^rd Base (~40:30)

Game: Tie Breakout

Home (~55:00) 

• The New Strike Zone
• Robot Umps Revisited

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1^st Base (~1:15)

• News

• The Brawl

• Stras Inks with Nats
• Twins Prospects
• Kershaw
• Sonny Gray

2^nd Base (~34:15)

• Extract
• Doug: Jon Gray
• Sam: Anthony Rendon

3^rd Base (~54:15)

Game: Read Between the Lies

Home (~1:19:00) 

• Two Baseballholics Sofa-scouting Harvey-Strasburg

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1^st Base (~2:30)

• News

• Cubs

• Richards
• 80 G for Dee G
• The Kang Show is back on the air
• Ay Papi!

2^nd Base (~30:00)

• Extract
• Doug: Jose Berrios
• Sam: Daniel Murphy

3^rd Base (~48:00)

Game: Over/Under

• Altuve
• Harper
• Prince
• Votto
• Wainwright
• Arrieta
• Nola
• Velasquez

Home (~1:17:30) 

• The evolution of DFS, how and why it's a different game in 2016

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1^st Base (~1:45)

• News

• Carrasco

• Arrieta
• Harper
• Stras
• Rasmus
• Wainwrong

2^nd Base (~25:15)

• Extract
• Doug: Matt Harvey
• Sam: Tyler White

3^rd Base (~44:30)

Game: Who Done It?  

Home (~1:08:45) 

• A Trek Through the Standings

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1^st Base (~3:30)

• News

• Kersh vs. Bum

• Schwarber

• Mazara
• Correa
• Orioles
• Greinke
• Giles
• Story...

2^nd Base (~43:30)

• Extract
• Sam: Trevor Story
• Doug: Madison Bumgarner

3^rd Base (~1:04:00)

Game: The Wonder Years  

Home (~1:18:15) 

• A Week's Worth of Change

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1^st Base (~3:15)

• Predicting the Standings

2^nd Base (~52:00)

• Predicting the Awards

3^rd Base (~1:17:30)

Game: Occam's Razor 

• Predicting outcomes 

Home (~1:35:45) 

• Reviewing the BAn fantasy auction

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1^st Base (~3:15)

• The Future of Sabermetrics

  • Inspired by Rob Arthur's article at 538: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-baseballs-new-data-is-changing-sabermetrics/ 

2^nd Base (~19:00)

• Extract
  
  • Taijuan Walker
  • Marcell Ozuna

3^rd Base (~35:00)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway? 

• brought to you by PECOTA

Home (~57:00) 

• Celebrations, Unwritten Rules, Old School vs. New School

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1^st Base (~3:00)

• Draft Strategies

2^nd Base (~31:15)

• Breakouts, Bargains and Busts
  
  • We each give 3 players for each of 3 categories.
  • Breakouts - top players who could ascend to elite status
  • Bargains - lower-ranked players who should return value higher than their ADP
  • Busts - top players who will fail to live up to the hype in 2016

3^rd Base (~1:04:15)

Game: Fantasy Pop Quiz

  - We each choose three questions to ask the other, painting various scenarios on fantasy draft day 

Home (~1:27:30) 

• Using the average ADP from here: http://www.fantasypros.com/mlb/adp/overall.php 
• Best and Worst values of each round
• Rounds 1 through 5
• Round 10
• Round 15

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***The Baseballholics Anonymous Fantasy Auction League has arrived!***

We've turned entry into a game this year, so if interested then please follow these instructions.

[those who submit an entry MUST be able to participate in the auction, scheduled for Sunday, March 27, at 5:30 PT / 8:30 ET]

There are 12 spots available for the 15-team league. To enter, send us an email at baseballholics@gmail.com, with the following items in the body of the email:

1. Answer the following: Which game has been played the most times on Baseballholics?

A. Occam's Razor

B. Read Between the Lies

C. Who Done It?

D. The Wonder Years

2. Review the show on iTunes, then copy+paste your review into the email. It's shameless promotion, we know. (if you have reviewed us already in the past, then please copy+paste the og review)

3. Tell us a BRIEF summary of your Baseballholism, and why you would be a good fit for our baseball addiction group.

We can't wait for year two- who's in?

1^st Base (~6:00)

• News

  • Gallardo
  • Fowler
  • Rollins
  • Desmond
  • Coghlan trade
  • K. Davis trade

2^nd Base (~32:15)

• Offseason Extract
  
  • S: Ian Desmond
  • D: Carlos Rodon

3^rd Base (~47:45)

Game: Tie Breakout

Home (~58:30) 

• Best Bets
  • Over/Under lines
  • World Series Odds

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***The Baseballholics Anonymous Fantasy Auction League has arrived!***

We've turned entry into a game this year, so if interested then please follow these instructions.

[those who submit an entry MUST be able to participate in the auction, scheduled for Sunday, March 27, at 5:30 PT / 8:30 ET]

There are 12 spots available for the 15-team league. To enter, send us an email at baseballholics@gmail.com, with the following items in the body of the email:

1. Answer the following: Which game has been played the most times on Baseballholics?

A. Occam's Razor

B. Read Between the Lies

C. Who Done It?

D. The Wonder Years

2. Review the show on iTunes, then copy+paste your review into the email. It's shameless promotion, we know. (if you have reviewed us already in the past, then please copy+paste the og review)

3. Tell us a BRIEF summary of your Baseballholism, and why you would be a good fit for our baseball addiction group.

We can't wait for year two- who's in?

1^st Base (~9:00)

• Talking LABR mixed with Bret Sayre

2^nd Base (~47:00)

• Offseason Extract
  
  • D: Felix Hernandez
  • S: Eric Hosmer

3^rd Base (~1:02:45)

Game: Read Between the Lies

• 2008
• Pete Rose
• Awards for Decades
• Mickey Tettleton
• Greg Maddux
• Tony Phillips
• 1984
• R.A. Dickey
• Babe Ruth
• Cy Young

Home (~1:26:00) 

• Baseball Prospectus 2k16 in stores and on doorsteps
• Projections, new stats, comments
• Disagree with the Angels or Orioles comments? - Yell at Doug

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1^st Base (~3:30)

• Signings & Trades

  • Gallardo
  • Fister
  • Kendrick
  • Latos
  • Rodney
  • Clippard
  • Dickerson-McGee
  • Segura/Wagner-Hill/Diaz/Anderson
• Slide Rule

2^nd Base (~47:15)

• Offseason Extract
  
  • D: Raisel Iglesias
  • S: Randal Grichuk and Stephen Piscotty

3^rd Base (~1:08:30)

Game: Whose Line Is It Anyway?

  - new and improved!? 

Home (~1:31:00) 

• Baseball Prospectus Mock Draft

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1^st Base (~2:00)

• Signings

  • Upton
  • Cespedes
  • Cuban Missile Fallout
  • Parra

2^nd Base (~28:15)

• Offseason Extract
  
  • D: Justin Verlander
  • S: Jung Ho Kang

3^rd Base (~47:45)

Game: Total Recall

  - new game, inspired by last week's title 

Home (~1:02:30) 

• Reader Email
  • Keeper decisions
  • Cheap Buxton vs Pricey Stras

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1^st Base (~4:30)

• News

  • Arbs
    
    • Arrieta
    • Aroldis
    • Storen
    • Donaldson
    • Fern
  • Signs
    • Crush
    • A. Gordon
    • IPK
    • Chen
    • Maeda
    • Span
    • Napoli
  • Swaps
    
    • Revere for Storen

2^nd Base (~44:45)

• Offseason Extract
  
  • D: Jon Gray
  • S: Adam Eaton

3^rd Base (~1:08:30)

Game: The Wonder Years

Home (~1:23:30) 

• The Hall
• Trimmed Electorate
• Griffey-Piazza
• Bonds-Clemens
• Hoffman-Wagner
• Bags-Rock
• Brought to you by: The Soapbox

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1^st Base (~3:30)

• News

  • Iwakuma (again)
  • Leake
  • D. Murphy
  • H. Alvarez
  • Jaso
  • Ottavino
  • Frazier trade
  • Aroldis trade
  • Unsigned Free Agent Extravaganza

2^nd Base (~36:15)

• 2015 Year In Review
  
  • Risers and Fallers
  • Most Improved Players
  • Did Harper pass Trout?
  • What can we learn from the Royals?
  • Most with the Least? Least with the Most?
  • Fantasy Booms and Busts

Stretch (~1:33:15)

• Kazmir

3^rd Base (~1:38:30)

Game: Who Done It?

Home (~1:56:30) 

• The State of DFS, blackouts in NY and IL

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