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This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 01-13-2020

Luis Torres – Beyond the Box Score: The Chicago White Sox signing Luis Roberts to an extension is great for the White Sox and for Roberts’ bank account right now. However, it’s also another example of the methods teams have implemented to try and manipulate a player’s service time. If Roberts ends up being the […]

Posted on January 13, 2020January 11, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
The crowd at a Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana game back in 2015.
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Play in the Winter

The period from December to mid-February is my favorite time of the year for baseball. That may seem odd to some seeing as how it is well past the time when the last Major League Baseball season has ended and the new season will begin. For others, it’s not an odd statement at all because […]

Posted on January 8, 2020January 7, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Sadaharu Oh at the plate for the Yomiuri Giants
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 01-06-2020

Daniel R. Epstein – Off the Bench: Major League Baseball’s Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred is in a rush to implement numerous changes to the MLB game. The majority of these are based around pace of play issues. You may or may not have issues with MLB’s pace of play, but you should take issue […]

Posted on January 6, 2020January 3, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 12-30-2019

Daniel R. Epstein – Beyond the Box Score: At the heart of Major League Baseball, there is one truth that its owners and executives believe in more than any other. That truth is that the fans are idiots and that MLB can lie about their profits and the fans will be none the wiser. Even […]

Posted on December 30, 2019December 28, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
Granny Hamner with the Philadelphia Phillies
Bridging the Two-Way Gap

Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Granny Hamner

Granny Hamner already had a long and successful Major League Baseball career before he ever tried his hand at two-way play. There was really no reason for Hamner to play two ways. Yet in his age 33 season he found himself pitching and for the final two years of his career he played enough on […]

Posted on December 27, 2019December 19, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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