Global Baseball

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    giants depth chart

    ByDaveslocker

    The San Francisco Giants—yes, those orange-clad technocrats of Oracle Park—published their latest depth chart this week, and the planet promptly resumed its slow spin toward Armageddon. From the smog-choked skyline of Shenzhen to the moldy basements of Leeds, analysts parsed whether Tyler Fitzgerald really is the everyday shortstop or merely a placeholder until Marco Luciano’s…

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    jose altuve

    ByDaveslocker

    José Altuve, the 5-foot-6 defibrillator to baseball’s collective ego, has become a geopolitical Rorschach test—proof that the planet can still unify around something, provided that something is arguing about a man who can’t reach the top shelf at Carrefour. From Caracas to Copenhagen, the diminutive second baseman is discussed less as athlete and more as…