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Our weekly look at some of the best and most interesting things I've seen over the last 7 days

AN ORANGE BOWL CLASSIC

With the Caribbean Series currently going on at loanDepot park, the always interesting Ghosts of the Orange Bowl Facebook account wrote about when the event was held at the Orange Bowl in 1990 and included a terrific photo by J.C. Ridley.

(Photo courtesy of J.C. Ridley.)

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THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU

(Photo courtesy of USA Today.)

Umpires continue to get better at calling balls and strikes. Fangraphs has the data to prove it.

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IN A TOUGH SPOT

Athletics manager Mark Kotsay guides a club that went 50-112 in 2023, has MLB’s smallest payroll and has no idea where it will play its home games in 2025. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images.)

Sam Blum of The Athletic profiles Athletics manager Mark Kotsay, a former Marlin, who has “the hardest managerial job in Baseball.”

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TIMING’S EVERYTHING

(Graphic courtesy of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.)

The Cleveland Guardians are debating what time to play ball for their April 8 home opener because the city will experience its first full solar eclipse since 1806 that afternoon.

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THE WASHINGTON PADRES?

The Washington Post turned the clock back 50 years, to when the San Diego Padres nearly moved to DC.

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STILL WAITING

Billy Wagner talked with Jayson Stark about narrowly missing out on election the the Baseball Hall of Fame. I’m a self-proclaimed “small Hall” advocate, and yet Wagner would have been an easy first-ballot choice in my opinion.

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FIRST STOP ON THE WAY TO COOPERSTOWN

Speaking of the Hall of Fame, Baseball America points out that, in the decades since they began publishing annual Top 100 Prospect lists, future Hall of Famers almost always begin their careers on their prospect list.

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ICYMI

In case you missed my latest on VFTB, there’s still time for Bruce Sherman and Peter Bendix to put their money where their mouth is.

It's not too late

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