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May you and your families have a Happy Thanksgiving. .. wherever you are! Let’s all count our blessings and remember our friends – ones who are still with us and ones who we won’t see again. None of us know how many more trips around the sun we have so let us gather with our…
The discussion between Bear and B&P on the use of drugs in Baseball got me to thinking. Drugs of some kind have been in vogue in some fashion as long as I have been following baseball. I may not have been aware of it, but it was prevalent. A number of former players have become…
As we all know, just before the Rule 5 Deadline, the Dodgers cut ties with Billy McKinney and Zach Reks while adding Jacob Amaya, James Outman, Eddys Leonard, Jorbit Vivas, and Michael Grove to the 40-man roster. On a team with plenty of LH bats, Zach Reks and Billy McKinney…
On November 15, I started to write about the impatience some fans have with Gavin Lux, and it imploded into an overall generalization about many fans seeing MiLB stats and believing that those numbers will automatically translate to MLB numbers. And then when they do not, then…
Earlier in the week I had a dialogue with MT and Bluto regarding the lack of confidence I have in RVS as a competent MLB Team Batting Coach. I have no doubts that his methodology can and does work for some, but each batter is different and needs a different approach. At least…
I got to thinking the other day about why baseball is my favorite sport. And I also wondered why others choose this sport to be their favorite. It is not the easiest game to play. And it requires a lot of skill sets to play at the highest level. The greatest are usually said to…
We don’t know what Andrew Friedman and Company will do this offseason and we don’t know what will happen with the CBA between owners and players, but I know what I would do and I predict what the Dodgers will do. In some ways, I endorse many of the moves that AF generally makes…
Much has been written about the slow start of Gavin Lux’s MLB career. Mostly by impatient fans. Fans get excited about players when they read stat pages, and claim them to be a can’t miss player. Many are now talking about Andy Pages, Eddys Leonard, Miguel Vargas, Ryan Pepiot…
A few days ago, we celebrated Veterans Day. A day that we thank those who have served our country over the years. Protecting the freedoms we have all come to cherish. In a couple of weeks, the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor will be observed. There are not many…
Andrew Heaney will not be the first low-risk high-reward pitcher signing. It is pretty common to hear things like “ Andrew Friedman signed another pitcher off the scrap heap ” and similar things. I think some fans believe that Andrew is sitting at his desk randomly pushing the…
A while back someone suggested that my column perhaps should be called, MiLB Matter with Dodger Chatter. I think it might have been Bluto. So under his advisement going forward, it shall be called, MiLB Matters with Dodger Chatter. Matters refers not only to the “stuff” going on…
Well, let the bidding begin. A number of publications have put out their top 50 Free Agents list. MLBTR is one of my favorites to follow. They are no better with their prognostications than are any other publication. They run contests every year, and many of the readers have…
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