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Vote for Pedro: Let's end this un-unanimous streak

The Newtonite January 5, 2015

by Jacob Gurvis Hank Aaron, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Tom Seaver, Ted Williams, Cy Young. What do these men have in common? Sure, they are some of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. Another similarity?...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Red Sox bolster rotation, but still in need of an ace

The Newtonite December 16, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis In the span of four days, the roster and outlook for the 2015 Boston Red Sox drastically changed. Everyone expected them to make major moves at the 2014 Winter Meetings that took place...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Boston's big signings of Sandoval, Ramirez, demonstrate new aggressive nature of Sox

The Newtonite November 25, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis It may only be November, but the Red Sox are back. Am I being a bit premature? Probably. But given the fact that in the span of 24 hours, the Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval to a five year...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Hottest teams succeed in postseason

The Newtonite October 29, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis September. The pennant chase. Playoff berths. The last month of the regular season in baseball is exciting. Every game matters when teams are fighting for playoff spots. One win or loss...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

MLB Commissioner Bud Selig retiring after 22 years on the job

The Newtonite October 14, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis With the playoffs in full swing and the regular season over, an era has come to an end in Major League Baseball. Although it isn’t obvious exactly what this “era” is to most sports...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: Round-by-round predictions for the 2014 MLB Playoffs

The Newtonite September 30, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis The leaves are changing color, the temperature is dropping (except for the odd 80 degree weather last weekend), and October is here. All of this means one thing: playoff baseball is upon...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Baseball loses role model, ambassador with Derek Jeter's retirement

The Newtonite September 29, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis What Derek Jeter has done for the game of baseball over the last twenty years is not something that will be forgotten. He has been an exceptional role model to younger players and fans,...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Thinking Outside the Batter's Box: MLB head and shoulders above big, bad NFL when it comes to player behavior

The Newtonite September 19, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis The headlines throughout sports this week are not pretty. Child abusers, wife beaters, substance abusers. The list goes on. But wait, aren’t all those things that happened in the National...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

My journey through the ballparks of America (or just eight of them)

The Newtonite September 8, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis As a baseball fan, a huge dream of mine is to one day visit all thirty baseball stadiums. This summer, I took a big step towards that dream, crossing seven stadiums off the list on a baseball...

Baseball tops Braintree, wins State Tournament

Baseball tops Braintree, wins State Tournament

The Newtonite June 9, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis and Jonny Levenfeld After posting a 19-1 regular season record and landing the top seed in the inaugural Super 8 tournament, the expectations were high for baseball. Today, with a 6-2...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Injury plague hits MLB, Tommy John surgeries skyrocket

The Newtonite May 23, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis When someone gets sick there is always a chance that the people he spends time with could catch whatever contagious illness he's carrying. One thing that is very odd, is when a non-contagious,...

Thinking Outside The Batters Box is a blog about baseball published every week.

Pine tar incident at Fenway adds new angle to baseball's age-old debate on foreign substances

The Newtonite May 6, 2014

by Jacob Gurvis When is it okay to cheat? This is a question that is always on the minds of fans and analysts across sports. Usually the answer is a simple “never,” but a strange occurrence at a Red...

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