Hang Up Your Cleats, 1. The Long Out

Hang Up Your Cleats, 1. The Long Out

If you want to play at the Major League level, you’ll need to start specializing early.We’ll be generous and say 10 years old is when you started.At 10 you realized you could throw thunderbolts. Pills. Ched. Heat. Smoke. Fuzz. Gas.You could throw hard.Ridiculous when...
Stop Exploiting Minor League Players

Stop Exploiting Minor League Players

No player, in all my time in baseball, has ever said to me that they play because they simply can’t wait to get fat off their sweet minor league paychecks, and coast.When I started writing about the minor leagues so many years ago, I was often told—among other...
In Defense of Matt Harvey

In Defense of Matt Harvey

Matt Harvey doesn’t get a lot of sympathies these days. Can’t say I don’t understand why. If you want to be the self-proclaimed superhero of a town like New York, you’re essentially setting the bar so high it requires perfection to reach, and...