Tag: baseball
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Rich vs Poor
The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years). Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…
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Keith Hernandez: Greatest Moments
In this post, we will look at some of the greatest moments of Keith Hernandez, who played for 17 seasons mostly for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets. In Hernandez’s storied career he accomplished the following: In addition, many consider Hernandez to be the best defensive first baseman of all time. As…
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What about a Designated Fielder?
Carrying on with our discussion of the designated hitter (DH) from our previous post, we thought a bit further about the rationale of replacing the pitcher with another hitter. It appears prior to the American League adopting the DH rule in 1973 that the first real consideration to adopt a DH occurred in the late…
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We Second, Third, Fourth, Etc. that Thought
This will be a short post, but we encourage you to check out this SI.com article written by Nolan Ruth who covers sports in Texas. By the way, who should know more about baseball than someone with the last name of Ruth! The Pitch Clock Will do More Harm for Baseball than Good This article…
Baseball Purist 