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Major League Baseball All-Star is a title you carry into the afterlife. It's an honor being bestowed upon about 75 of the game's greatest players in this 2025 season, even if "All-Star" is a bit ...

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Randomness rules the very fabric of reality. So it only makes sense that scientists have figured out how to use nature’s randomness as a tool in our mundane world. Random numbers go hand-in-hand with ...

With 32-man rosters and a representative required for every team, there are inevitably a few surprise selections to the MLB All-Star teams each year, at least relative to preseason expectations and ...

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is approaching and with it brings the annual conversation about representation. Each team will have a player involved, even if there isn't a deserving candidate ...

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For every Barry Bonds, there is a Rich Aurilia. Not every MLB player finds sustained success at an elite level for a decade-plus in the big leagues, but that doesn't mean things can't click for one ...

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