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Cover photo for The Best Team Money Can Buy showing a baseball resting on grass.
A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: The Best Team Money Can Buy

I don’t like to start my reviews too negative, but that’s really hard this time around, The Best Team Money Can Buy is that bad of an offering. When I turned the final page I was left with the overriding thought that I didn’t have a single positive morsel to offer about Molly Knight’s tome […]

Posted on January 28, 2025April 7, 2025 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Shohei Ohtani celebrating in the Dodgers dugout.
Three Batter Minimum

Three Batter Minimum: The Feeling of Ohtani

I don’t watch Major League Baseball, or affiliated baseball altogether really, all that much anymore. This isn’t going to be a rant about affiliated baseball, my thoughts on that machine are well-known. The point is that I don’t make time for affiliated baseball like I used to and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. […]

Posted on September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Roy Campanella with the Baltimore Elite Giants
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Roy Campanella’s Best Years

Most baseball fans know Roy Campanella, at least if you’re enough a baseball geek to be reading this site then you know Roy Campanella. Not much more can be gained from digging into his short, but prolific career with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His resume is filled with the awards and recognition that let those […]

Posted on November 24, 2020November 19, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)
Justin Turner spreading the Coronavirus without a care in the world
Three Batter Minimum

Three Batter Minimum: Justin Turner and the Lies We Tell

For the past week, I have wanted to write about baseball. Every morning I would wake up with the idea that today I would write about one topic or another. I’d get out of bed and head downstairs. That’s where all my thoughts about writing changed. That tiny bit of walking was enough to leave […]

Posted on November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Mookie Betts at Fenway Park
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 02-10-2020

Russell A. Carleton – Baseball Prospectus ($): Wins Above Replacement is a great statistic. I use WAR, in all its permutations, quite often and will continue to use it in my baseball writing moving forward. However, WAR, no matter the version, is not a conversation ender as far as statistics go. A baseball player isn’t […]

Posted on February 10, 2020February 7, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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