MLB
MLB Missed a Golden Opportunity to be the Center of the Sports World’s Attention
The labor battle that erupted over a potential return to play for Major League Baseball was wholly unnecessary. Three months after the league ceased Spring Training and came to a preliminary agreement on returning to play, MLB decided to simply abide by that...
The Warehouse: Baseball Is Back!? Embrace The Weird
On this episode of The Warehouse, Bob Harkins, Matt Kory, and myself talk about baseball being back. In the last episode, we talked some about the universal DH, briefly mentioned the expanded rosters, and geographical play. Here we also talked about the extra inning...
MLB Should Focus On 2021 Season
With no baseball games to watch, no players to analyze and no prospects to track, we’ve found ourselves over at The Warehouse (subscribe!) talking quite a bit lately about what a season might look like if owners and players ever decided to buckle down, get together...
Major League Baseball and Race
Let’s be honest, Major League Baseball was slow to respond to the death of George Floyd and the protests, unrest and, ironically, further police violence against minorities that ensued. Once MLB did finally respond on June 3, it came in mealy-mouthed and frankly a...
The Warehouse: Orioles & MLB Talk
Bob Harkins, Matt Kory, and myself covered what MLB will and should do with starting the season and will there be any long term ramifications? We talked about the treatment of the minor league players and touched on the draft....
MLB, MiLB, and Layoffs
The coincidence was stunning. This week, I was notified that I will be joining the massively swelling ranks of the unemployed, effective July 1. A day later, Jeff Passan of ESPN reported that hundreds of minor league baseball players would be losing their jobs,...
Winners And Losers In The New MLB Labor Deal
These are uncertain times for baseball, for the sports world, and for life in general. When I go out in my neighborhood for walks, I get smiles and waves and polite nods from a safe distance. Run into people I know and I get – and give – offers of help. When I scroll...
Ranking The World Series Champions Of The Last Decade
There are no Major League Baseball games to analyze. No moves to grade. No progress on which to report. As someone who loves baseball, this is a sad development. As a human who values the health of myself and others, it’s also, in my opinion, the prudent course of...