The Boise Hawks are one of the 42 minor league teams that lost their major league baseball affiliation. This is part of their story.
Before the Reds signed Shogo Akiyama, they were the only MLB team to had never signed a Japanese player; finally, the AL East installment of the ‘What Your City Flag Says About Your Team’ series; two catchers try to figure out what a forkball is, exactly.
Bill Buckner and forgiveness; it’s a long season, and so is recovery; they flatten the building where you watched baseball; insisting to your casual baseball fan friend Tauchman isn’t this good; Gleyber Torres: average Gen Zer; some players don’t have to be told by Ken Griffey Jr. to keep fighting
The second annual baseball Chanukah song from Rob Mains; what the city flags say about the NL Central teams; let’s talk about Gerrit Cole and that old sign of his; “free agency” is not exactly what it sounds like
Baby Yoda, future baseball manager; the beauty of collecting baseball cards; a scouting report on new Mets acquisition “L’Homme au doigt”, aka “Pointing Man”
Prepare for the 2022 work stoppage by reading someone who was around for the last one!; we are going to need a theoretical physicist or two to figure out if Erik González is a center fielder or not; a VIP attends a ballgame
Being wrong about people being wrong about Clayton Kershaw; Gleyber Torres but he’s a normal 22 year old; Jeffrey Maier will always be 12
It’s not a “stolen” base, now is it?; the legend or myth of Mike’s cousin, the pitcher; an applicant for the Red Sox team president position makes their case
Thinking of the Utah coal miners after the Tyler Skaggs news; a rundown of what happens when you watch a 15-inning game; teaching your friend in vain that Mike Tauchman isn’t actually good
Evaluator: Matthew Ellis Report Date: 08/21/2019 Dates Seen: 08/20/2019 OFP: 10 MLB ETA: 2024 Video: Senator Bernie Sanders plays baseball at Iowa's "Field of Dreams." pic.twitter.com/566f4lkPK6 — The Hill (@thehill) August 20, 2019 Mechanics: Quite fluid delivery, quick start/stop motion. Sets up strong with right leg, frontloads his upper body weight to increase velocity, could…
Joe Panik was DFAd by the San Francisco Giants yesterday. I can’t say that I really know much about Joe beyond any usual prospect-watch-young-star chronicle thing that could fit any other kid of his age (see: Brad Miller, Carlos Correa, Taijuan Walker, my hopes for a productive career by my early thirties, etc). But what…