Baseball Prospectus – Sydney Bergman and Kiehl Christie ($): I am staunchly pro-labor, anyone who reads my work regularly should be aware of that fact. The Major League Baseball Player’s Association isn’t among the best of unions, and they could stand to learn from other unions. The MLBPA gaining strength and taking back power from […]
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The Fireman Cometh
When the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions signed Austin Bibens-Dirkx they thought they were getting an ace starter. They needed someone to pair with Ryan Verdugo, Josh Roenicke, and Pan Wei-Lun in what looked to be an impressive rotation. Biben-Dirkx’s signing took on added import with the injury to Verdugo that sidelined him for the first few […]
North Side Second Baggery
Coming into the season the Chicago Cubs believed they had a second base problem. The problem, you see, was that they simply had too many quality second baseman and not enough playing time to go around. Ben Zobrist, Ian Happ, David Bote, and Daniel Descalso were all big league second baseman who would be breaking […]
To Win, or not to Woman
I delude myself sometimes into thinking that the majority of baseball fans are in favor of equality. I talk the issue up in my head, I watch clips of impressive plays by women, or girls, in baseball and softball alike. In the baseball clips, I think to myself, “Man, one day soon women are going […]
Go High on Barlow
Scott Barlow spent six seasons in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ farm system. He was drafted by the Dodgers in the sixth round. Barlow wasn’t a heralded prospect, and that never changed throughout his time with the Dodgers. Even a stellar 2017 campaign with the Double-A Tulse Drillers that was followed by a respectable Triple-A stint […]