On Friday, Major League Baseball announced that in 2021, they plan to raise the minimum salary for minor league players. The headline, of course, wasn’t meant to be the actual amounts associated with the raises. […]

Since the 2017 season, we’ve heard about the potential of Mike Clevinger. As the Cleveland American League ballclub has fallen further and further out of World Series contention Clevinger has gotten better and better. It’s […]

I’ve written extensively about the fact that the Hall of Fame is an organization that, by definition, is exclusionary. It’s exclusionary not only in that it de facto chooses the best and excludes everyone else, […]

When Major League Baseball announced the sanctions against the Houston Astros for their electronic sign-stealing scheme there was an argument about whether or not the punishment was too light. That the conversation went to such […]

On June 1, 2019, Derek Dietrich was inexplicably one of the best hitters in the majors. In the first two months of the season, Dietrich hit 17 home runs in 145 plate appearances. He had […]

Don’t be fooled, the Red Sox could have done better. I’m not talking about a better return for all star outfielder Mookie Betts. They could have done better as a franchise, to keep Mookie Betts, […]

The sign-stealing saga engulfing the Houston Astros seems to take a new turn with each passing week. Late last week, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that the Astros’ front office had spearheaded the […]

The Red Sox had a disappointing 2109 season, to say the least. They went from 108 wins in 2018 to 84. They went from a historically good team, and arguably the best in franchise history […]

Why the Chicago White Sox? That’s the first thought that had to race through countless fans when they heard the news of the latest Major League Baseball scandal. This time MLB didn’t do anything wrong […]