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Minor League Road Trip: Portland, Maine – September 3, 2010

When the minor league baseball season started five months ago, I was so optimistic.
“I’m gonna get to Portland, and Pawtucket, and Lowell, and Vermont, and Tri-City, and New Britain…” I told myself as I made a list of every home game that those nearby teams would be playing. I was gonna be a positive [...]

Odds and Ends

I’m heading down to Baltimore tomorrow morning to catch a couple Sox-Orioles games with my aunts (the way the team’s season has gone, I might actually be catching by Wednesday night. See what I did there?) and uncles. There’s a lot of packing (translation: I need to watch my wife pack my bags) [...]

Make Sure You Have Your Playoff Procedures In Order, People

I was all set to make myself a bunch of little note card cheat sheets containing the playoff procedures for Minor League Baseball’s leagues, then I realized how complicated some of these scenarios get. Soooo, change of plans – I’ll just link here to the pages that detail each league’s procedure, and we’ll have [...]

The Z-Meter 8/11/2010

The Z-meter is our way of tracking the prospects we like. We keep track of stats for 25 players at a time, compiled from Baseball America, reader votes, and our own irrational sense of whimsy.
A couple of the players who made it onto the meter via reader voting ended up starting their seasons in the [...]

Things That Happened At Tonight’s Fisher Cats Game

* I interviewed Adeiny Hechavarria. It probably would’ve been better if I spoke Spanish, although I suppose understanding every 200th word is a start.
* Binghamton’s Eric Campbell doubled on a popup to Fisher Cats catcher Matt Liuzza. (That’s actually what the recap says.) Basically, the ball went up in the [...]