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TL;DR Zac Gallen weakened over the game while the offense sputtered and the Mets’ youngsters sparkled.

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April 20, 2021 Do you like historical baseball players? Do you like current baseball players? Do you like assembling a mixture of historical and current baseball players into teams, perhaps with some constraints around which ones you can use? You’re in luck, because today at 11:30 AM PT/2:30 PM PT on FanGraphs Live and the FanGraphs homepage, Paul Sporer and I are drafting a squad in Out Of The Park Baseball 22 Perfect Draft, hopefully a treasure trove of Remember Those Guys and former legends. Will we aim for a team of sluggers and skimp on pitching? Will we focus on up-the-middle defense ...

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The delay to the start of the 2020 season provided many opportunities for teams and those who cover baseball to get creative in reporting the MLB season that was supposed to occur. Here at Purple Row, we hosted our own season simulation using MLB The Show accompanied by Ben Kouchnerkavich’s play-by-play. At baseball-reference.com, another simulation using Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP) was used to simulate each day’s scheduled games with full box score reports, standings, etc. available on the site as it would if the season had been played out for real. These simulation tools (or games)...