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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
