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Picking our MLB American League award winnersThe 2022 MLB season is coming to a close today and here at Deadspin, we decided that despite the fact that we will likely never, ever, get to actually vote on awards — let alone get credentials — we’d still offer up our take. It’s not like the infallible BBWAA has ever been wrong with its picks befo...

Buck Showalter is the right guy in QueensIf it feels a bit like the end times lately, that feeling probably isn’t helped by the New York Mets — yes, the New York Mets — conducting themselves as a competent organization with a legitimate plan and hopes. ...

Someone had to take this jobOur long national nightmare is over, as we don’t have to hear about the New York Mets’ GM search anymore. After every good candidate either turned the Mets down or threw their phone into the nearest lake, and then every out-of-the-box candidate went full Lou Brown and told Sandy Alderson they had so...

Mets searching for that elusive GM who likes big market, big stage

Mets team president Sandy Alderson offered up a Michael Scott-ism on Tuesday to explain why his team hasn’t been able to hire a general manager yet, saying their greatest strength — massive market — also is their greatest weakness....

Women have always understood who Trevor Bauer is

(Trigger Warning: sexual assault, choking, violence during sex) ...

MLB definitely wants to die like horse racing

Either MLB’s PR people are locked in a room with no escape, no windows, and all communications shut off to the outside world. Or it’s just a team of koala bears stoned to the bejesus and lying on the floor. That’s the only conclusion you can draw when, on the same day it looks like MLB ducked a majo...

It’s been another horrible week for women, and sports isn’t helping one bit

Bill Cosby is out of prison, not because he isn’t a rapist, but because of shoddy lawyering by a former district attorney in Pennsylvania. Britney Spears remains under a conservatorship, even as her father refuses to let her remove an IUD....

‘Sticky stuff’ enforcement theater captivates baseball world as press buries real issues

Major League Baseball’s crackdown on sticky stuff began on Monday, and the program already is a sweeping success....