How Will Fans React to a Lengthy Lockout?

January 8, 2022

Back in Colorado after my holiday trip. Colder than a you know what. But baseball has not been off of my mind. My brother gifted me with 12 new bobbleheads…well not new, but new to me. Four Dodgers and a bunch of other guys! But I still followed all of the stories I could on my computer while there. I did get to watch a few of the season’s highlights…

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Open Discussion

January 5, 2022

Several people have e-mailed me and asked for me to keep the discussion open, so here it is. Ask and you shall receive! Have at it! Cuss and Dis-Cuss Whatever…

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Out of Business…

January 4, 2022

Until further notice… like whenever MLB and MLBPA reach an agreement. This horse is dead! I refuse to beat it! Find something productive to do.

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Zips Mean Zip

January 2, 2022

Fangraphs has their ZIPS Projections while Baseball Prospectus has their PECOTA Projections. These are systems that take a player’s past performance and try to project the most likely outcome for the following season. It allegedly looks at all of the numbers, and all the numbers that make up the numbers, and the numbers underlying those numbers, to see which players are more likely to repeat their success and which ones…

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Jason Martin – Could He Be the Next???

December 31, 2021

Could Jason Martin be the next Max Muncy, CT3 or Justin Turner?  There is no reason to believe that he could but also no reason to expect that he could not. Martin, like JT, is a California boy who was born in Corona and attended Orange Lutheran High School in Orange which is just 32 miles from Los Angeles. Like Muncy he bats left but not with the power at…

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I Have Nothing to Add

December 29, 2021

Until MLB and the MLBPA start talking, there is nothing to say. Both sides are selfish, greedy, pampered buffoons. I am not going to embarrass myself like some blogs who just try and invent stuff to talk about. There’s nothing to say that hasn’t been said… ad nauseam. I’m out. Feel free…

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Matt Beaty Heating up with Great Lakes Loons

December 27, 2021

This is a re-run of an article I posted on TBLA back on July 28, 2015. It provides a glimpse of Matt Beaty as a pre-MLB player. Great Lakes Loons third baseman Matt Beaty is enjoying his first season of professional baseball simply doing what he loves to do. Beaty was born in Dresden, Tennessee and played four years of baseball with the Dresden High School Lions. In each of…

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Let the Catman Do

December 24, 2021

Tony Gonsolin is 27 years old and played his first Minor League Game in 2016. In 2019, he made his first appearance in the Show when he pitched 40 innings with a 4-2 record and sported a 2.93 ERA. For every pitcher that makes the major leagues and starts like this, there are probably 25 or more who really struggle. In the COVID-19 year of 2020, the Catman pitched 46…

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Dodger Christmas Babies

December 23, 2021

Among the recent news items was a clip that Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, would celebrate his 49th birthday on Sunday, December 25. That piqued my curiosity a bit and I quickly took a peak to determine who else might have a Christmas Day birthday. That is, those with a recognizable name for me. There were many who had been born on that day but almost all were not part…

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MiLB Matters

December 21, 2021

It is a bit difficult to write now. We have a house full. Jamie , Laura and three-year-old grandson Rowan are here, as are Elanya and Dean. Plus two dogs that are not ours as well as our two cats. Also,  I am retired as a writer. So here goes a bit at a time. BulldogsandPenguins, to my recollection, is the only one on TBLA who has mentioned the next…

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