Baseball Historians

Did you ever see the movie, “Catch Me if You Can”? It stars Leo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks and is directed by Steven Spielberg. For all intents and purposes it’s a highly enjoyable flick. There’s a line in it, however, that I feel c…

The Rays always get ragged on because no one shows up to their games even though they’re a young, exciting team that wins a LOT of ball games. I couldn’t watch games at that dump either. It’s not easy to enjoy a baseball game when you…

I guess new ownership is better then the team being gutted.  Still, as the Padres celebrate their 40th anniversary, Padres fans have a few things to be hopeful for. Jake Peavy is still with the team and it’s not like any of the other teams in th…

Welcome to the most anticipated season in the Rays short history.  The team is coming off of not just their first post season appearance, but their first World Series.  They also made some moves, and while some are good, some could come back to bite …

Jon Papelbon is fresh off of his one year, $6.25 million deal but he’s recently come out and said he’d like to talk about a long term deal.  He admits there’s risks but then he also said he liked rolling the dice.  At this point, th…

download despicable cartoon Where have you gone Colby Rasmus.  If you ask Cardinals fans, you think the guy was done but that’s hardly the case.  The Cardinals had one of the top prospects in all of baseball in Rasmus and he fell flat and was h…

The Twins just can’t seem to get over the hump.   Making the playoffs isn’t the problem, but winning a playoff series is.  Still, the Twins had some help this year from the minor league system and even more help is on the way. In fact th…

Matt Joyce made the BA Top Twenty International League prospects.  I’m not sure what the criteria is, but I’m surprised Jeff Larish didn’t make the list.  There were some 26 year olds on the list, but it looks like Joyce made it more for what he did at the big league level then anything.  He [...]

Another year, another season lost. The Reds season is winding down and despite having some nice additions, it’s just more of the same. The Reds won’t finish in last, but they definitely won’t be finishing in first and once again, we’re looking at a losing season. Brandon Phillips had another outstanding year [...]