Today, it is 51 years ago that the Seattle Pilots debuted in Major League Baseball. As a result, I repost this blogpost I posted in 2014 originally. Seattle always had been one of the cornerstones of the Pacific Coast League with its team the Seattle Rainiers. In 1964 the Cleveland Indians considered a move to…
About a month ago, MLB announced some rigid plan in which they wanted to contract forty-two Minor League teams. MLB claims it is for the sake of their minor league players: less travel time, better facilities and even better pay. This new plan got a lot of criticism, not only by the fans and…
Perhaps you have seen several HOF voting ballots on Facebook on Twitter lately. Several baseball writers and journalists, who are organized in the Baseball Writers Association of America, have put their ballot on the world wide web. For the first time, you can see a heavy shift towards voting for several PED users. Voting for PED…
Anthony Bosch, founder of Biogenesis, has been sentenced to four year emprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. He has pleaded guilty to distributing testerone. Bosch dealt human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players as well as high school athletes. Of course this is a case outside the jurisprudence…
In an article built around an interview with the Baltimore Sun, previous commissioner of Major League Baseball Bud Selig, said the following: After nearly 22 1/2 years that began with unprecedented labor unrest, unfolded with rapid innovation and ended with unparalleled prosperity,he predicted a future filled with more transformation, perhaps with expansion to other countries….
New MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, sees Montreal as a viable city for Major League baseball under the right circumstances. Thanks to the Jeffrey Loria/ Bud Selig combo, the Expos disappeared from the baseball map and moved south of the border to become the Washington Nationals. Last year the two game exhibition series between the Toronto…
The new commissioner of Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred has suggested a ban on defensive shifts in the infield during an interview. This kind of shifts are used against hitters that pull the ball. So banning a shift like this would be a major advantage for pulling hitters. Defensive shifts are not something new. Lou…
Originally, I wrote this article for the Cuban baseball magazine Universo Beisbol. The reason I post it on my blog is that I think it is interesting to see how a team could fail so miserably. The Seattle Pilots: The one-year mishap Seattle always had been one of the cornerstones of the Pacific Coast League…
