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Pirates and Cardinals shaking hands after the 2017 Little League Classic
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 08-26-2019

Stephen J. Nesbitt – The Athletic ($): Baseball is a game, a distinction that should carry nary a single negative connotation. Major League Baseball is a business, but at the end of the day, its players are playing a game. That means it’s fun, what they do is fun, and us watching them do their […]

Posted on August 26, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Johnny Cooney poses for a picture.
Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Johnny Cooney

If not for a 1922 demotion to the A-level New Haven ball club (As a reminder, I don’t use racist team names on this site so if you want to know the actual name you will need to look it up yourself) Johnny Cooney may never have spread his two-way wings. Though he spent his […]

Posted on August 23, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Willians Astudillo at-bat for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.
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Where Have You Gone, La Tortuga?

The world moves fast, this is as true now as it ever has been. It is for that reason that I like to occasionally slow down and enjoy something. Because of my proclivity for watching unaffiliated baseball more often than not that means some discarded affiliated ballplayer. Sometimes that can mean a player still in […]

Posted on August 22, 2019August 27, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. flashing a smile while with the Buffalo Bisons.
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For Want of a Highlight

If you’re a baseball fan like me that means you utilize social media as your main method of keeping track of the comings and goings of the baseball you care about. For many of us, the days of opening the morning paper and scrolling through the day’s box scores are a thing of the past. […]

Posted on August 21, 2019August 27, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Albert Almora Jr. makes a catch in the Wrigley Field outfield.
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The Slow Failure of Albert Almora Jr.

The state of Albert Almora Jr.’s 2019 campaign, if not his whole career, can be summed up in the experience of writing this article. I initially wanted to write about how odd it was that a talented contender like this years Chicago Cubs would continue to trot out a below replacement level player as much […]

Posted on August 20, 2019August 27, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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