Month: May 2019

A Realistic Contract Projection for Carson Wentz

May 31, 2019
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  It’s no secret the Philadelphia Eagles want to extend Carson Wentz this offseason. Howie Roseman made almost no effort to retain Nick Foles, despite the quarterback having won playoff games in consecutive years and the franchise’s only Lombardi trophy to date. Last year’s third-stringer Nate Sudfeld was brought back at a second-round tender, one that will pay him a shade over $3 million in 2019. And career journeyman Cody…

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Ranking Each League’s 5 Most Likely MVP Candidates

Embed from Getty Images As we grow close to one-third of the way through the 2019 MLB season, we can know some things for certain. Cody Bellinger won’t possibly end the year over a .400 batting average. Mitch Garver won’t finish with a Ruthian-like slugging percentage. And Joey Gallo can’t conceivably keep up this strikeout pace… can he? But we can say with fairly high certainty which two players will…

May 22, 2019
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Grading the First Month of Bryce Harper’s 13-Year Contract

May 1, 2019
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Grading the first month of a 13-year mega-contract is essentially akin to evaluating a football team on their performance on the first three plays of the game. It’s such a small sample size of production, but it still counts, and who isn’t interested in breaking down the performance of the face of the sport after one month? A quick look at Bryce Harper’s year-to-date stats per Baseball Reference: Harper’s six…

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