Slightly Better than Replacement Level
For a lot of people, Randy Messenger threw his last pitch on October 4th, 2009 with the Seattle Mariners. That was the day he walked off a Major League Baseball mound for the last time. Were this many years ago I could forgive people for thinking Messenger’s career ended on that day. It’s not though, […]
Baseball wasn’t supposed to go this way for Phillippe Aumont. The bright lights and big-league glory were his calling card, that’s where he was to spend his playing days. Instead, he finds himself toeing the rubber in front of an intimate crowd at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park. All Aumont can do is keep doing […]
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 […]
The Undefeated – Rhiannon Walker: There are not enough minority managers in affiliated baseball. It’s far too easy to lose sight of this problem with the ongoing labor strife that dominates Major League Baseball discussions and the accompanying problem of fair pay for players in Minor League Baseball. Those issues aren’t going away, but neither […]
The Ringer – Michael Baumann: Failure is nothing new to athletes, but there’s nothing familiar about the ways Trevor Rosenthal and Chris Davis have been failing. Not that long ago they were both among the best players in the game. Now, Davis has broken the all-time record for at-bats without a hit and Rosenthal finally […]