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Part 2 of our 2017 MLB Season Preview runs through the American League: The Indians and Red Sox are the cream, while the Tigers, Yankees and Astros are the crop. The middle class Blue Jays and Orioles remain formidable, and what to make of the Wild Wild AL West? Coming into Home: A return to Riverwood High School baseball in Atlanta for Coach Jordan Bounds.
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Coach and Tucker’s two-part 2017 MLB Season Preview! Out of the Box: Recap of the excitement that was the World Baseball Classic, and why we’ll never see another Classic that compares. First-to-Third: The National League predictions for 2017 – Can the Nationals and Mets stay healthy? Will the Cardinals take back the division from the World Champion Cubs? And is the West the Dodgers to lose?
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Author and Sports Clairvoyant Clayton Trutor joins the RTB podcast to discuss his new book, “Overcoming Adversity: Baseball’s Tony Conigliaro Award.” Clayton talks about writing for SB Nation’s Cincinnati Bearcats blog (0:34), the “What if?” of Tony Conigliaro and his significance to Red Sox fans (11:00), the collaborative efforts of SABR in editing the book (17:04), fan inspiration from personal struggle (24:50), hanging your hat on singular sports success (37:00), love for the WBC (42:20) and a few predictions for the 2017 Red Sox (45:18).
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Episode 100 of the Running the Bases Podcast! Coach and Tucker discuss how baseball exists in the digital era: How social media can enhance the game experience, but can also distract fans from the real beauty of the ballpark. The changes in writing (and baseball writers) with the exponential growth of the “Baseball Blogger”, and where baseball media goes from here? (Congratulations! We played ourselves!) Thank you to everyone who has ever listened to an RTB Podcast over 100 episodes.
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