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Sometimes your side gets picked off twice in one game, losing baserunners when you’re struggling to give them a base to begin with. Then you’re smiling like you don’t mean it. Then it happens again: (The other pix made it…
Strange – I scheduled this post at the end of May so I could fill out the site for each Monday I was gone. This was the final day. Now he’s somewhere else; listed as released from his Cardinal affiliate…
Conner Greene was sent up to Triple-A Memphis, and won the AAA National Championship with the Redbirds. Now he’s playing in the prestigious Arizona Fall League, still throwing as hard as he can, as he once told me, breathlessly, after…
The player in the top photo, Brooks Zimmerman, just had surgery. I hope he comes back. He’s a senior, but maybe he can stretch his eligibility. The third player depicted, shortstop Robbie Merced, transferred to Fort Scott Community College, in…
I wonder if these coaches like where they are, or if they just want to step a little bit higher, have a little more responsibility, and attract a little bigger crowd. Maybe it’s everything. A former colleague tripled his pay…
Whatever happened to Austin Knight, we will ask. He had the long hair and it hurt to watch him throw because his shoulder looked like it was displaced by each pitch. When things didn’t go well I heard him yell,…
Ben is still playing, and likely starting, though I haven’t seen a game of fall ball yet to confirm. Who knows what will happen by the time the season begins this spring? Good things. Perhaps new things. Or nothing but…
Missouri State pitcher, ca. 2018. I’ve checked, and he hasn’t transferred. Thank God. Don’t let this guy walk off the mound and into someone else’s dugout. He’s only a junior, so he will be here for a bit longer. by
God bless John Privitera. He’s such a good hitter. He still wears those silver shoes I first saw during the Super Regionals against TCU in 2017. He is listed on the Bears roster as 5-8, which means I also gained…