Mike Morrow is a member of the communications team at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and writes about baseball at tnprobaseball.com. All photos on this site are his own.
The wheels are turning on big-league and minor-league rosters, and it’s already busy in Tennessee pro baseball both in terms of minor league rosters and with players with college and high school ties in the state. The Texas Rangers recalled infielder Patrick Wisdom from the AAA Nashville Sounds […]
The Nashville Sounds are promoting the heavy presence of Tennesseans on their roster as a first-year AAA affiliate of the Texas Rangers, and it’s easy to see why. Former Morristown-Hamblen East High School and Walters State Community College pitcher Brett Martin, who is on the Rangers’ 40-man roster, […]
The Chattanooga Lookouts are beginning their new Class AA affiliation with the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, hosting Montgomery in the first of a five-game series. Other Southern League openers Thursday include the Tennessee Smokies, the AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, opening at home against Mississippi and the […]
David Price, the former Blackman High School and Vanderbilt University pitcher, is the highest paid player in the major leagues who played high school and/or college baseball in Tennessee. His Boston Red Sox teammate Mookie Betts, who played at Overton High School in Nashville, is second. Price will […]
Will Ronald Acuna Jr. catch Hank Aaron? An unfair question? Maybe. But unfair to whom, Acuna or Aaron? Aaron used every talent imaginable, including perseverance, to pass Babe Ruth to set the all-time home run record and become one of the greatest all-around players in baseball history. Acuna […]
He was 18 years old when he signed a contract with the Cardinals, a catcher out of high school in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. They had drafted him in the fourth round in June that year. For the 2001 season, the Cardinals sent him to Johnson City, Tenn., […]
(Plus notes on Senzel, Minor, Ray, Gray, Wright and Price): One just needs to pick up where he left off. The other is trying to live up to high expectations. But while they have been on different paths, two former Chattanooga Lookouts could gain a lot of attention […]
For the first time in his career, former Vanderbilt player Tony Kemp will break spring training camp as a member of the Houston Astros’ Opening Day roster. Kemp had been a little touch-and-go. He is out of minor league options. The Astros finalized their roster Sunday as they […]
For all the optimism about the Cincinnati Reds’ off-season moves to actually win some baseball games, a former Nashville Sound and a former University of Tennessee star wound up being subjects of discontent at opposite ends of the Reds’ training camp. On the front end, second baseman Scooter […]
Poor, rich Mike Trout. Trout didn’t even get 24 hours of attention for agreeing to a contract extension worth $426.5 million over 12 years, the biggest deal in baseball. Nope. Now it’s all about Mookie Betts. Trout, of course, doesn’t seek a lot of attention, and baseball types […]
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