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Three Batter Minimum

Three Batter Minimum: Why the Rockies?

Branding in professional baseball is hard. Not always, but a lot of the time there aren’t any slam dunk ways to market your baseball team and you settle on what you think will work the best. Then there are the times when what you think will work the best is you as an affiliated minor […]

Posted on June 25, 2021May 28, 2021 Author Bill Thompson Comments(2)
Jerry Reinsdorf and Rob Manfred talking about more ways to destroy baseball
This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 05-25-2020

Michael Baumann – The Ringer: There are a number of issues with Major League Baseball playing in 2020. This site has discussed many of them and the online baseball community has hit this topic hard over the past few months. Clearly the topic hasn’t been hit hard enough because now MLB executives and team owners […]

Posted on May 25, 2020May 23, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 05-04-2020

Noah Frank – Baseball Prospectus ($): Minor League Baseball is facing a daily assault on its very existence. Maybe this would have happened anyway, or maybe this is happening because of COVID-19. The pandemic has stopped MiLB from playing and left them vulnerable to vulturism from Major League Baseball and Rob Manfred. One thing is […]

Posted on May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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This Week in Baseball

This Week in Baseball: 04-27-2020

J.J. Cooper – Baseball America ($): We’ve known all along that The Houston Plan would become reality. It’s still sad to reach the point where reports are signaling that 42 Minor League Baseball teams are about to be contracted. It’s sad because baseball is part of the fabric of our lives. Not Major League Baseball […]

Posted on April 27, 2020April 25, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)
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Three Batter Minimum

Three Batter Minimum: The Future

I’ve been writing far more opinion-driven articles lately. One of those articles specifically deals with the various methods we used to play baseball growing up. Needless to say, every group of friends had their own brand of baseball with varying surfaces used as fields, different rules, and a wide swath of items that were used […]

Posted on April 17, 2020April 11, 2020 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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