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This Week in Baseball: 03-18-2019

The Athletic – Zach Buchanan ($): Playing baseball comes easy for just about every ballplayer. Playing in a different town or state adds a new dimension for some players, but baseball is still baseball. For someone from America playing in South Korea or Japan playing in America, baseball is still baseball but everything else is […]

Posted on March 18, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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A Stream Ain’t Just For Fishing

I’m a cord cutter, there are no two ways about that. It’s the year 2019 and I see no reason to be tied to any sort of television package anymore. I cut the cord a few years back, and honestly, it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Not only am I saving […]

Posted on March 6, 2019August 23, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball: 02-18-2019

Baseball Prospectus – Sung Min Kim ($): Teams can be bad, we all know this. Most of us are okay with that; not with the actual losses, but with the general idea that some years the team we like will simply not be competitive. On the other side of the spectrum, there is the idea […]

Posted on February 18, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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BillCubbieBlueBill Thompson@BillCubbieBlue·
January 22, 2021

It's not his fault that you're too lazy and xenophobic to understand accent marks in Latino names.

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January 22, 2021

The best four catchers in Defensive War per @baseball_ref are: Iván Rodríguez (29.6), Gary Carter (26.1), Bob Boone (25.8) and Yadier Molina (25.4), and all of them played in Puerto Rico with Caguas.

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January 22, 2021

Adrian Burgos Jr's Playing America's Game is a sobering look at the oft forgotten about contributions of Latinos to breaking the color line in affiliated baseball,

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