Archive for the ‘Rookie’ Category

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 [...]

10 Rules for finding a Good Prospect

I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a wonk. A futurist wonk. Now granted, there are certain advantages to it. Though the fact I was able to get on the Michael Pineda train before the rest of the world caught up to him is certain to pay dividends by 2012? Some would consider that boring. [...]

Looking Back At The Montreal Expos’ Last Draft

Earlier today I decided to take a look back at Montreal’s picks in the 2004 draft. It was the organization’s last draft before moving to Montreal and I was curious to see how many of the players chosen were still knocking around in the professional ranks somewhere.
(Chances are someone has covered this already, though [...]

The First King James of Miami and minor league notes on LeBron

With all the talk in the sports world about the LeBron James Decision ™, we here at Bus Leagues Baseball would be remiss if we didn’t at least attempt to find some sort of link from LeBron to the minor leagues. Of course, there have been numerous LeBron-themed promotions.
There was the “Please Stay LeBron Night“.
There [...]