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 […]
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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 […]
A Bash and a Blash
When Jabari Blash signed with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball’s Pacific League it was met a lot of enthusiasm from certain online circles. Blash had been a Minor League Baseball stud, known for his towering home runs. When Blash connected with one it was a sight to see and the idea […]
A Lament for the Stolen Base
I first became a fan of baseball in the mid-1980s. There was a lot to love about the game, some things right off the bat, while other aspects I grew to love as time went on. One element of baseball that I loved from the get-go was the concept of the stolen base. The entire […]
A Trip to the Library: Smart Baseball
I’m a relatively new convert to the sabermetrics side of baseball. I know it may seem at times, based on my writing at least, that I am someone who is deeply entrenched in the sabermetric world. I’d like to think I’m someone who has slowly been able to immerse himself into sabermetrics and gain a […]