Author: Shawn Flynn

Shawn Flynn is from a small town called Elk Mound, WI, just west of the City of Eau Claire. At FlurrySports, he covers Major League Baseball and the National Football League. Follow him on Twitter @shawnpflynn_2 for sports coverage, empty-handed humor, and other miscellaneous nonsense.

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MLB Power Rankings: August 9, 2017 On Tuesday, the MLB released this year’s playoff schedule. The playoffs will be rung in with the American League Wild Card game on October 3rd, with the National League Wild Card game to be played the following night. The AL Division Series is slated to begin on October 5th, with the NLDS (notice a pattern here?) commencing on the 6th. Each league’s Championship Series will begin eight days after the start of the Division Series. Game 1 of the 2017 World Series will be played on October 24th with November 1st being slated as…

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MLB Power Rankings: August 2, 2017 There were no shortage of big moves made in lieu of Monday’s trade deadline. Many of baseball’s top teams were looking to make season-changing deals. The Dodgers, Yankees, Cubs, and Nationals were all big winners this week, bolstering their rosters in the push for October. The Astros and Red Sox, however, failed to make any big splashes. With nine weeks left in the season, time is running out for teams still fighting for a spot in the postseason. Here are this week’s MLB Power Rankings presented by FlurrySports. (All records and stats updated through…

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MLB Power Rankings: July 26, 2017 As the month of July comes to a close, the playoff picture in the MLB is beginning to develop. While no team has officially locked up a playoff spot at this point, there are a few clubs (Dodgers, Astros, Nationals) whose odds of making it into October are nary in doubt. However, with each team having at least 60 games remaining in the regular season, there’s plenty of time for some clubs to break into the postseason. Also, the trade deadline is officially four days away. It will be interesting to see which players…

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MLB Power Rankings: July 19, 2017 The All-Star Break is in the rear view mirror and the July 31st trade deadline looms large. All 30 teams will be looking to make some moves within the next couple of weeks. Whether it’s liquidating current assets to build for the future or adding that last piece to make a push for October, 2017 is fixing to have some major player movement. With that being said, here are this week’s MLB Power Rankings presented by FlurrySports. Making the biggest leap forward this week was the Seattle Mariners as they moved up five spots.…

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MLB Power Rankings: July 11, 2017 The All-Star Break is upon us as the unofficial first half of the MLB season comes to a close. Last night fans watched in awe of the raw spectacle of power that the Home Run Derby brings every year. Tonight, the best players from the American and National Leagues will square off in a battle for league supremacy in this year’s All-Star Game. With the latter two events being the only baseball until Friday, there is ample time to analyze where each team currently stands in the race to the postseason. With that, here…

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Fans Want the Homerun, Get it in June Going into Friday night, major league hitters had blasted a total of 1,068 homeruns in the month of June. That mark was one shy of the record set in May of 2000. With a whole day’s worth of action left, it was only a matter of time before that record would be broken. It was Giants’ outfielder Denard Span that kicked off the proceedings, tying the May 2000 total (1,068) by taking a pitch by Pittsburgh’s Gerrit Cole and sending it into the bleachers. Not long after that, it was the Blue…

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MLB Power Rankings: July 1, 2017 Ten days until the All Star Game in Miami and all 30 teams are at very different places in their respective seasons. There are those who have remained in the cellar, perennially at the bottom of the standings, ready to call it a season and trade away their few valuable players in an effort to rebuild for the future. Others are in the middle of the pack fighting for a chance to contend for a postseason berth. And then there are those who have been riding high all year long. Here is the first…

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