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This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 01-27-2020

Allison McCague – FanGraphs: Enjoying Major League Baseball is increasingly difficult these days. With each new scandal or incendiary revelation, it’s harder and harder to want to keep tuning in or paying attention. Baseball itself is fine, but its premier organization is in the middle of a stretch of bad news and decisions that feels […]

Posted on January 27, 2020January 25, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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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)
Kansas City Royals fans celebrating at Kauffman Stadium.
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 09-16-2019

Ken Schultz – Outsports: Baseball is about community and it’s important that we make all valued members of the baseball community feel welcome. Pride Days are only a start, it matters more what teams do in-between Pride Days. Still, that start is very important, because without the LGBTQ+ community there is no baseball community. It’s […]

Posted on September 16, 2019December 6, 2019 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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