Home Cooking
Chemical additives have played havoc with athletics and our food. Â Cooking at home is a good place to start to combat both concerns. Â Some teams, notably the Braves, emphasize drafting amateurs from...
View ArticleMinor Happenings: White, Gardner Off To Great Starts
“Minor Happenings” is a weekly column which covers the important developments and news in the Indians farm system. While most of the information in this report is from my own research and through...
View ArticleBluefish Lose All-Star Jesse Hoorelbeke, But Replacement Josh Phelps Has...
It could not have been two weeks ago when we heard all-star first baseman Jesse Hoorelbeke and Bridgeport were in negotiation for the 32-year-old slugger to return for a fourth season with the...
View ArticleThe Sixth Tool: Measuring the Mind
Of all the prospects Pittsburgh received in its 2009 fire sale, possibly the most alluring was 25-year-old right-hander Charlie Morton.   Morton came armed with a knee-buckling curve, a swooping...
View ArticleThat’s Just Me, I Like to Get the Question Right
Armando Galarraga should have pitched a perfect game. He should have retired twenty-seven batters in a row. He should have joined the twenty other pitchers in Major League history to have...
View ArticleGardner and Webster turn back the Thunder
WEBSTER, N.Y. – In just 24 hours, Dave Brust’s Webster Yankees have gone from hunter to the hunted. After losing seven of ten games, the Yankees found themselves on the outside of the NYCBL playoff...
View ArticleJurik Enjoying the Journey
From Vestal, New York to Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia and stops in between, Dan Jurik blazed a trail through minor league baseball this summer. The former St. John Fisher Cardinal and Webster...
View ArticleWas The Vazquez Trade Worth It?
Ever since Javier Vazquez made a name for himself in 2004, after giving up a grand slam to Johnny Damon in the American League Championship series, Yankee fans have dreaded the sight of the...
View ArticleIndies Have Banner Day With Five Taken In Draft
While Boston’s apparent signing of Carl Crawford seemed certain to steal the spotlight on the last day of the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Thursday also was a banner day for Independent Baseball. No...
View ArticleBaseball Cards as Life
This week, Josh Wilker puts a sweet and sour blend of nostalgia on to simmer in “Cardboard Gods.” All of us remember the ritual of opening a fresh pack of cards. This task could only be handled with...
View ArticleFantasy Baseball Outlook: Top Five (Starting) Pitching Prospects For 2011
Tampa Bay’s Jeremy Hellickson is targeted for stardom. By the end of 2012 he will slide into the #2 spot in the rotation to create a dynamic duo, along with David Price. In articles such as this, many...
View ArticleWilhelmsen, Almonte Step Up, Give Indy Game 14 on Opening Day Rosters
    Erick Almonte’s unexpected jump onto the Milwaukee Brewers’ bench grabbed much of the Independent Baseball attention during spring training, but now that the reality of Opening Day is here...
View ArticleFireworks in the Steel City
With the Pittsburgh Pirates resurgence this summer, I’m reminded of one of the most abysmal pitching performances I’ve ever come across in all my years as a baseball fan. Unfortunately, it happened to...
View ArticleFactor12 Top12 Last12
Over the last twelve MLB seasons, there have been some legendary pitching performances. The Factor12 Rating is able to quantify each successful season or failure. Where does your favorite pitcher...
View ArticleHumble Phil, Powerful Paul
April 26, 2012 Philip Humber will always be associated with perfection. He just won’t always pitch that way. One start after throwing a perfect game against the Seattle Mariners, the White Sox...
View ArticleTexas Rangers Ink Oswalt to One-Year Deal
Texas Rangers ink Oswalt to one-year deal (via AFP) Roy Oswalt, a three-time Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher, has signed a one-year deal with the Texas Rangers, according to a posting on the...
View ArticleCan They Keep Up Their Hot Starts?
The first third of the baseball season is just wrapping up and has already been marked by numerous injuries, slow starts, and surprises galore. In particular there are some players who have come out of...
View ArticleNew Grip Helps Brock Peterson Slug Eight Homers in Nine Games And Climb to...
Brock Peterson remembers one time when he banged out something like 17 consecutive hits. But that was as an American Legion player, and he was using a metal bat. His latest streak was much more vital...
View ArticleHornell continues streak; defeats Rochester, 9-4
WEBSTER, N.Y. – Hornell’s Dodgers came north on route 390 toting a four-game win streak along with them. The NYCBL Western Division leading club left town adding another victory to their streak. Matt...
View ArticleBreaking Down the 2012 N.L. Cy Young Race
Pitching in the National League this season has seen its fair share of surprises; both the good and the bad. Former stalwarts have seen injury (Roy Halladay) and inexplicable decline (Tim Lincecum),...
View ArticleKazmir Gets Headlines as Indians’ Fifth Starter, And Dylan Axelrod Earns Same...
While disappointments always show up this time of year as major league teams trim their rosters to the 25-man Opening Day limit, Independent Baseball got a double dose of good news this week in...
View ArticleAre 1800s Innings Pitched Totals Valid?
Should the enormous innings pitched totals of hurlers in the nineteenth century be adjusted based on the distance thrown? In order to compare eras, let’s take a closer look at the progression of...
View ArticleNolan Sanburn: Oakland A’s Pitching Prospect Talks Baseball
The Oakland Athletics have displayed a knack for producing quality Major League pitching in recent years, with the likes of Tim Hudson, Trevor Cahill, A.J. Griffin and Sean Doolittle just to name a...
View ArticleStrasburg Redux
Washington has many fine sportswriters. Atop the list are Tom Boswell, Tim Kurkjian, and until recently John Feinstein. Last season Feinstein was one of the louder voices calling for the Nationals to...
View ArticleMedlen’s Misfortune is Everyone’s Misfortune
As the 2012 season drew to a conclusion, Stephen Strasburg’s absence from the rotation of the Washington Nationals was one of the more hotly debated issues. Often those heaping abuse on the Nationals...
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