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 […]
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 […]
It wasn’t clear if any of the media gathered in Dodger Stadium this week to question Mookie Betts and David Price realized the two marquee players were from the same neck of the woods, but there is a distinctive Nashville feel for the team in Dodger Blue these […]
With investor John Loar heading an effort to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville, it’s timely to point out that Nashville, believe it or not, once simply said no to an MLB franchise. When Phil Bredesen was mayor of Nashville, he was approached by a big-league baseball team […]
Although he first played professionally in the Venezuela Summer League at age 17, second baseman Jose Altuve, the 2017 American League Most Valuable Player, made his first appearance in the United States in Greeneville, Tenn. Greeneville is one of the best kept secrets of professional baseball in the […]
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