Darin Downs was done playing professional baseball to start the 2021 season. He had settled into a new role as pitching coach for the Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks. It appeared that the Coronavirus has helped to end the career of someone who had been playing at the pro level since 2003. Then the Ducks […]
Tag: unaffiliated baseball
A Mexican Dilemma
Content Warning: Rape, sexual assault, and domestic abuse. When I first got into unaffiliated baseball I gravitated towards the top leagues in Mexico. It made sense, both the summer Liga Mexicana de Béisbol and winter Liga Mexicana del Pacífico are high-level leagues that are full of talented players and plenty of names I already knew. […]
The Consistency of Daryl Thompson
The sun setting and rising is the second most consistent thing in the world. What could possibly be more consistent than that you ask? That question alone means you don’t watch enough Atlantic League baseball. Anyone watching that league year in and year out is fully aware that the most consistent aspect of the world […]
Let’s Bring Back the Fun
Let’s talk about fun for a second. Specifically let’s talk about fun, professional baseball, and the unaffiliated leagues. The 2021-2022 season has been a great season for unaffiliated baseball the globe over. There are still plenty of games to go, leagues yet to throw out their first pitch, and championships to be decided. Still, based […]
Baseball Beyond MLB: Josh Mazzola
Typically this column is used to write about players who made a huge impact on the game. That impact just happened to be outside the walls of Major League Baseball. There are plenty of amazing players with amazing careers that I still need to get to, and I will. However, the under the dashboard purpose […]