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This Great Game Comebacker Archive: 2024
The brilliance of Shohei Ohtani, the atrociousness of the White Sox, and the loss of too many legends (Willie Mays, Pete Rose, Rickey Henderson) are just a few of the baseball stories we commented on throughout 2024.
January 2024
MLB GMs hop aboard the Orient Express; The Angeloses sell; Bally Sports gets a lifeline, but will that foil MLB’s streaming aspirations?
February 2024
What new ballparks for the Royals and White Sox aim to look like; Las Vegas’ mayor tells the A’s to build that new ballpark—in Oakland; There’s a uniform controversy, and we can all see right through it.
March 2024
Shohei Ohtani’s translator gets criminally greedy; Scott Boras’ wait-it-out approach backfires; The Best and Worst players and teams from Spring Training.
April 2024
The Tommy John epidemic continues—what’s to blame?; Jackson Holliday needs a major league mulligan; Before Vegas, it’s Sacramento, Baby for the A’s.
May 2024
Paul Skenes’ fabulous debut; Angel Hernandez’s long-awaited exit; Negro Leagues stats now count—at least those we can find.
June 2024
Baseball suffers two Giant losses with the passing of Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda; The game’s trouble with legal gambling grows more worrisome; A game won on a walk-off pitch violation.
July 2024
The MLB Draft is spiced with international flavor; Paul Skenes is not letting up; The White Sox lose, lose and lose again.
August 2024
Shohei Ohtani achieves 40-40 vision; More historic misery for the White Sox; How did Danny Jansen end up playing for both teams in the same game?
September 2024
Farewell to the all-time hit king; Farewell to the A’s in Oakland; Shohei Ohtani goes 50-50 on history.
October 2024
The top seeds rule as the Dodgers and Yankees meet again in the World Series; Tropicana Field goes topless—will it be ready for 2025?; Saying goodbye to Fernando Valenzuela.
November 2024
The Rays and St. Petersburg get confrontational over their proposed new ballpark; The Yankees call Gerrit Cole’s bluff; An awards season with no surprises.
December 2024
Rob Manfred’s latest silly idea gets the hook; Juan Soto signs a record pact with the Mets; Godspeed, Rickey Henderson.
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