Christian Yelich has never been flashy. He just hits. That’s about all the drama you’re going to get out of the former National League Most Valuable Player. While he is a baseball superstar, you wouldn’t know it from his normal low-key behavior in a three-game rehabilitation stay in […]
Albert Pujols played a grand total of three games as a Memphis Redbird in Class AAA in 2000, but it was clear he wasn’t minor league material. Pujols made the big club in St. Louis the next year and never looked back, batting .329 with 37 home runs […]
Tony La Russa started this. It will take only one manager with backbone to do something about it. Another string of lousy relief pitchers has descended on baseball this season. It’s too bad so many of the pitchers aren’t actually good enough to be on major league rosters. […]
It is time to start speaking of Yadier Molina as the greatest St. Louis Cardinal ever. Yes, there was a man named Musial. Yes, there was a pitcher named Gibson. Yes, there was a slugger named Pujols. But as great as those Cardinals were, they were not Yadier […]
Whether it is the fault of the major leagues or the minor leagues, baseball has managed to scare the bejeebers out of minor league baseball teams, the entire Appalachian League among them. News broke late last year that 42 minor league teams were in jeopardy of disappearing in […]
It’s beginning to look like the New York Yankees just plain messed up with Sonny Gray. As the Cincinnati Reds anticipate better days, with some projections having the Reds actually winning the National League Central Division this season, one of the deciding factors behind the optimism is starting […]
Jacob deGrom is a study in improbability. The Kingsport Mets of the Rookie-level Appalachian League can forever claim that the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner began his professional career in the Tennessee city. After all, that puts him in an exclusive club. For all the seeming […]
A year ago, the question lingered as to whether former Vanderbilt player Mike Yastrzemski would ever make it to the major leagues. Now, he is expected to be the starting center fielder for the San Francisco Giants, and a star for one of baseball’s most tradition-rich teams. So […]
Pete Rose simply can’t help himself. Amidst all the uproar of the sign-stealing scandal involving the Houston Astros, one of the most perplexing turns in the saga has been Rose coming out of nowhere to argue that since Astros players aren’t being punished he shouldn’t be punished either. […]
New Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker is asking Major League Baseball to “try to put a stop to the seemingly premeditated retaliation that I’m hearing about” in regard to the Astros sign-stealing scandal. Baker knows about retaliation by brushing back a batter. He has ordered it as a […]
