Ultimate grand slam: A game-ending grand slam hit when the hitter’s team is down by exactly three runs in the final inning of play. Uncle Charlie: Curveball. Utility player: A player who fills in at many positions. Walk-off: A hit that ends a game. Warning track power: When a hit...
Humans name everything. We name our progeny, our pets,our cars, oursoftware, ourhardware, ourboats, andmany other things. It is believed that people have named things, inanimate or not, in order to assert their dominance over the object in question. Since there have been tools and machines...
> If the term “Pleskoff Prospect” is meaningful to you, you just might be a Fantasy player. > If you see graffiti that says “Jesus Is The Answer” and you wonder if the question is, “Who Is Matty & Felipe’s Brother?”, you just might be a Fantasy player. ...
When a great ballplayer adds to the family, it’s natural to be excited and think about what may happen in the future. After all, he isn’t just the newest part of a family at home. Kenji-kun has hundreds of older brothers, uncles, and aunts in his immediate baseball family, and ...
A fastball,a changeup, and control will get a pitcher through for a long while before they need to develop Uncle Charlie. In Virginia, there's a tall sophmore lefty throwing 88-89 that has college offers (unofficial of course, but the verbal commitments are already out there). He is st...
Uncle! By Patrick Sullivan We do not like to address the topic of steroids around here. By now, it is evident that steroids played a prevalent role in the game for a significant period of time. I am not sure why anyone acts so shocked when it comes out (illegally of course, but no...
The term “Inner Circle” was, for all intents and purposes, invented for men like Babe Ruth. He may not have been the greatest player in baseball history (I reserve that honor for Willie Mays and rate Ruth second, personally) but the Bambino was probably the closest thing to a God ...
His curveball has nearly elite spin, but Young actually deployed his mid-80s changeup a little more frequently than Uncle Charlie last year, and his bevy of offerings makes him unpredictable. His stuff quality will be stress-tested at the upper levels, but Young looks like a potential ...
While baseball was not on a long-term decline, Tony Mullane was. He returned to the Reds in 1893, but the 34-year-old was never the same–259-187 with a career ERA below 3.00 before his departure, he was 25-33 with a 5.74 ERA after. ...
“Bugs was very proud of his term in the Keeley Institute. He even wore a class button and very proudly exhibited an album with photographs and other souvenirs of his schoolmates.” As the papers in New York were filled with stories of Raymond’s “wonderful reform “while the club trained...