Para ser honesto, aprecio las muestras de pequeña factura en el béisbol, pero estaba pensando no arrojarme sobre esto debido a que me parecía demasiado temprano: ¿El cubano José Miguel Fernández entró a este lunes por la noche golpeando .500 luego de sus primeras 81 apariciones en home en la KBO? ¡Eso suena increíble! Con […]
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Yirsandy’s Corner: José Miguel Fernández is Breaking Out
To be honest, while I appreciate small sample sizes in baseball, it seemed too early to jump on this one: The Cuban player José Miguel Fernández is hitting .500 after his first 81 home appearances in the Korea Baseball Organization. That sounded amazing! With the Doosan Bears going 10-7, Fernández, 32, has 36 hits in […]
This Week in Baseball: 06-01-2020
Michael Baumann – The Ringer: The week started off innocently enough with a continued push by Major League Baseball executives and owners to get a season underway. Except it wasn’t all that innocent, the plan was nefarious in fact. What MLB had put forth was a plan that scientists couldn’t endorse and no one outside […]
Three Batter Minimum: Globally Good
A topic I often return to in all my baseball writing is my amazement at the global nature of the professional game. No matter what is going on in the baseball world I am consistently fascinated and impressed by how far the professional game has grown in even the short time I have been a […]
A Star in the Making
About the only disappointing aspect of Lin An-Ko’s 2020 season is that the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions have opted not to use him as a two-way player. Oh, how nice it would be if they had decided to go down that route and he was dominating opposing hitters on the mound and frustrating opposing pitchers at […]