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February 12, 2021 As we near the opening of spring training, two more players have found new homes, as utility players Brad Miller and Marwin Gonzalez signed major league contracts for the 2021 season. Gonzalez’s deal is a one-year contract with the Red Sox worth $3 million; Miller signed with the Phillies for similar compensation. Utility players have always been a part of baseball, but they got a special showcase in the 2020 World Series, as the Dodgers and Rays are two teams that highly value defensively flexibility. Role players of this type tend to live a fairly anonymous existence, th...

share-square-1090145 Before the 2020 season began, the baseball world wondered what sorts of amazing stats the 60-game schedule might produce. The smaller the sample size, the greater the chance for extreme results. In the end, no qualified batter hit .400, and no qualified pitcher bested Bob Gibson’s legendary 1.12 ERA from 1968. But that doesn’t mean this out-of-the-ordinary season didn’t deliver some eye-popping numbers -- whether they were record-breaking or just plain strange. Here are nine wild stat lines that deserve another look before the calendar flips to 2021. Line: .351/.490...