For those who don’t know the Frontier League is an unaffiliated league operating out of the midwest. Teams in the FL come from Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Indiana. Of the ten teams in the league five are based in Illinois cities, which is, you know, a lot. It’s also a league with plenty […]
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Managing to Win
My girlfriend and I have season tickets to the Milwaukee Milkmen. For those unaware, the Milkmen play in the American Association and thus are an unaffiliated team. The two games we went to last week both featured the Gary SouthShore RailCats as their opponent. Both games were fun and featured plenty of baseball action. One […]
An Offseason to Forget
When the 2019 Major League Baseball offseason began I think the majority of Chicago Cubs fans were optimistic about how things would go. The past few years had seen the team spend big in areas where they needed to improve while at the same time the front office dangled the carrot of a major signing […]
This Week in Baseball: 07-01-2019
Derrick Goold – St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Baseball is a funny game, always has been and always will be. A slight twinge in a decision here or there can change the trajectory of entire careers and franchises. Imagine if the St. Louis Cardinals had traded Albert Pujols before he ever played a regular season game for […]
Pierce Johnson Has Turned it Around
Pierce Johnson was once a highly touted prospect in the Chicago Cubs organization. A first-round pick in the 2012 Amateur Draft, Johnson was to represent the future of the Cubs rotation. Life doesn’t always work out the way we expect it, as true in baseball as it is anywhere else. Injuries and down performances resulted […]