Plenty of baseball fans are not romantic about baseball, but for the rest of us, there’s a romance in every season. And what’s romance but hopes and dreams? A week before the start of the regular season, I listed out my hopes and dreams for the San Francisco Giants in 2025 and did a check-in at the All-Star Break where I added a few more of both to the list. Let’s take a look at them and see just how much heartache I ... Read more
David Ortiz’s Persistent Confusion Over Rafael Devers Sends a Stark Warning to the Red Sox’ Rising Stars.yv
Over five months after the Boston Red Sox shockingly sent All-Star slugger Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants, you can count Hall of Famer David Ortiz among those still unsure if the Red Sox made the right move. Boston dealt Devers, the face of the franchise and one of the sport's premier hitters, to the Giants in mid-June for pitchers Kyle Harrison and Jordan Hicks, as well as minor-league pitcher ... Read more
The Cardinals Just Dropped a New Update on the Nolan Arenado Sweepstakes That Could Shift the Entire Offseason.yv
The St. Louis Cardinals haven’t been shy about the fact that they want to trade Nolan Arenado. This was the case last offseason as well. Now, there's a new executive leading the Cardinals' baseball operations in Chaim Bloom. He, like John Mozeliak, has spoken openly about the idea of trading Arenado. Last offseason, the Cardinals tried to get a deal done. But, it didn't work out. It sounds like this offseason could be ... Read more
Chaim Bloom’s Early Moves Reveal Just How Disconnected John Mozeliak Had Become From the Team’s Future.yv
Chaim Bloom is off to a busy start in his early tenure as the St. Louis Cardinals' newest President of Baseball Operations. Bloom is a driving force in modern analytics within the game and has already made decisions as the advisor to John Mozeliak to bring the organization up to industry standards. The biggest question is the personnel he would decide upon once he took over the leadership role. Bloom addressed the ... Read more
A Tigers Fan Just Proposed a Wild Tarik Skubal Contract in a Letter to the Editor That’s Turning Heads Across MLB.yv
The hidden problem with baseball is that it was the game that boomers used to love, and when trying to enter a new era, it's that same generation of fans that quickly show their age. Not only do doomers hate home run celebrations, they hate the fact that the contract prices for the game's top talent go up every season. Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto each received contracts worth at least $700 million in recent years, and Detroit ... Read more