Josh Norris – Baseball America ($): The majority of people have been clamoring for an automated strike zone in Major League Baseball for a while now. It will happen eventually, but I don’t think all the people shouting “robo umps now” quite realize the issues that still plague any automated system. A delay in the […]
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An Ode to Miller Park
I’ve written a lot lately about the idea of a baseball community. For those unfamiliar, the basic gist is that baseball is bigger than any individual league, player, team, or nation. Baseball is baseball, and the communal aspect of baseball transcends everything else. I fear that in affiliated baseball we are losing that aspect of […]
The Latino Role in Baseball
Throughout the history of organized professional baseball there have been two groups of people who are marginalized more than any others. The first group is women and at some point, I’ll dig deeper into the history of women’s baseball on this site. Suffice to say, whether it’s as fans, players, coaches, or front office denizens […]
This Week in Baseball: 11-04-2019
David Roth – Deadspin: As of this writing Deadspin as we all knew it is dead and buried. The new Deadspin is a zombie site, existing solely for clicks and not for quality content. In its death throes, Deadspin released this gem, which gets right to the heart of the connection between politics and sports. […]
Bridging the Two-Way Gap: Jack Graney
Jack Graney spent fourteen seasons in Major League Baseball, first with the Cleveland Naps and then with the Cleveland American League club. I don’t particularly care about any of those seasons. It’s not that Graney was a bad player, he wasn’t. Graney walked a ton and got on base at a great clip, and if […]