Baseball as fiction is always, in my opinion, hard for an author to pull off. The main reason for this is that the author doesn’t let baseball tell the story. Instead, they feel the need to insert some sort of extraneous element that isn’t really necessary to the story. Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball […]
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This Week in Baseball: 02-17-2020
Craig Edwards – FanGraphs: Rob Manfred’s plan to contract Minor League Baseball teams has been under fire from the get-go. That fire is justified because it’s a truly awful plan. What makes it even worse is that the plan contains some areas where MiLB can improve. Those aspects of the plan are overshadowed by outright […]