As quietly and unassumingly as possible the Arizona Diamondbacks have managed to not be terrible this year. I know that sounds like I’m damning them with faint praise, but it truly is a feat that they have managed to stay an average team. They find themselves only two games under .500, and just 2.5 games […]
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This Week in Baseball: 06-03-2019
Baseball Prospectus – Sydney Bergman and Kiehl Christie ($): I am staunchly pro-labor, anyone who reads my work regularly should be aware of that fact. The Major League Baseball Player’s Association isn’t among the best of unions, and they could stand to learn from other unions. The MLBPA gaining strength and taking back power from […]
To Win, or not to Woman
I delude myself sometimes into thinking that the majority of baseball fans are in favor of equality. I talk the issue up in my head, I watch clips of impressive plays by women, or girls, in baseball and softball alike. In the baseball clips, I think to myself, “Man, one day soon women are going […]
This Week in Baseball: 05-27-2019
MLB.com – Jesse Sanchez: Diamilette Quiles took the field this past week. It shouldn’t be news, yet it is, because in most places around the globe she would be told she couldn’t play or that she had to play in a different all-woman league if one existed in her area. Liga Béisbol Superior Doble A […]
MLB and Baseball
I regularly watch Major League Baseball, I think that goes for most of us. Not just my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, no, I try to watch as much MLB as I can in a given week. Again, this is something that I think goes for most of us. It may seem like I’m stating […]