Imagine for a moment that you’re Teddy Stankiewicz. You’re riding high on the wave of leading the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions to the 2020 Chinese Professional Baseball League championship. You’ve spent two winters in Mexico and the Dominican Republic as well as two summers in Taiwan showing that you are one of the best pitchers in […]
Three Batter Minimum
Three Batter Minimum: Parsing Out the Pecos League
The Pecos League is, well, hard to keep track of for lack of a better phrase. You combine a ridiculous streaming price point of $6/game with a website that is straight out of your “I’m firing up America Online in 1998 and ready to surf the net” nightmares and you get a league that isn’t […]
Three Batter Minimum: The Curious Case of Milton Harper
Not all baseball stories are good baseball stories. Some are awful with a dash of morbidity and confusion tossed into the mix. That’s the best way I can think of to describe the end of Milton Harper’s career and life. The two are intertwined but in reality, not much is known about how his life […]
Three Batter Minimum: Why the Rockies?
Branding in professional baseball is hard. Not always, but a lot of the time there aren’t any slam dunk ways to market your baseball team and you settle on what you think will work the best. Then there are the times when what you think will work the best is you as an affiliated minor […]
Three Batter Minimum: A Turbo by Any Other Name
If you search Baseball Reference for Johnni Turbo you won’t turn up any results. Sure, you say, that’s because there’s no ballplayer known as Johnni Turbo. I know what you’re thinking but no, I’m not about to tell you about some obscure right fielder who plays in Liga Argentina de Béisbol and goes by the […]