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Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals
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This Week in Baseball: 06-29-2020

Sheryl Ring – Beyond the Box Score: Major League Baseball is an organization that needs to change with the times. MLB loves to trot out Jackie Robinson as a symbol of their progressive leanings, but they have turned Robinson into nothing more than eyewash. The reality of the organization is that they remain deeply racist […]

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
John Fisher laughing at how little he pays his workers
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This Week in Baseball: 06-08-2020

Noah Frank – Baseball Prospectus ($): The secret has always been that the way the Oakland Athletics became a winning franchise in the Moneyball era was bad for baseball. We ignored that though, for plenty of reasons. It was fun to tie in our research with a front office more willing to consider said research, […]

Posted on June 8, 2020June 7, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Jerry Reinsdorf and Rob Manfred talking about more ways to destroy baseball
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This Week in Baseball: 05-25-2020

Michael Baumann – The Ringer: There are a number of issues with Major League Baseball playing in 2020. This site has discussed many of them and the online baseball community has hit this topic hard over the past few months. Clearly the topic hasn’t been hit hard enough because now MLB executives and team owners […]

Posted on May 25, 2020May 23, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
The Yakult Tokyo Swallows celebrate a victory
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This Week in Baseball: 04-27-2020

J.J. Cooper – Baseball America ($): We’ve known all along that The Houston Plan would become reality. It’s still sad to reach the point where reports are signaling that 42 Minor League Baseball teams are about to be contracted. It’s sad because baseball is part of the fabric of our lives. Not Major League Baseball […]

Posted on April 27, 2020April 25, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Rob Manfred telling reporters how much he hates baseball.
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This Week in Baseball: 11-25-2019

Craig Edwards – FanGraphs: Major League Baseball is less competitive than it has been in a long time, maybe even ever. This is a big problem, one of the biggest problems facing MLB today. People watch sports to see competition and if that competition is not present then they eventually tune out and often never […]

Posted on November 25, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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April 20, 2021

“Rakuten” is Taiwanese for bout that life. https://twitter.com/gocpbl/status/1251867666672836608

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April 19, 2021

Finally official.

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