Minor league write Matt Hagen unveils his ongoing Top 100 Fantasy Baseball Prospects.

It seems like we’ve had a number of horrible freak accidents on amateur baseball diamonds recently. The latest happened yesterday at Liberty University. I’ll again note my surprise that we haven’t seen something like this happen in Major League Baseball. Just awful. UPDATE: As noted in the comments, it’s even worse than first reported: Taylor […]

The Nationals probably know that they’ll hear it from their fans if they fail to draft and sign Stephen Strasburg. From the sounds of it, they’ll probably hear it from their players too: The Nationals have the first pick in the June draft, so Strasburg can be theirs. All they have to do is take […]

Finishing a look at the top farm systems in the game.

Well, a Hall of Fame: Rafael Palmeiro, who infamously wagged his finger at Congress four years ago while denying he used steroids only to test positive a few months later, was elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame . . . . . . The college hall, run by the Lubbock, Texas-based College Baseball […]

This is the kind of thing I’d be all over if someone did it around here: Despite the sandlot rules and the tiny, plastic snap of the bat, Wiffle ball is serious stuff . . . . . . “Anybody can play Wiffle ball,” coach Dan Gish said. There are no tryouts. And there is […]

How does NAIA baseball stack up against the levels of the NCAA?

Remember John C. Odom, the minor leaguer who was traded for ten bats last year? It was all worth a chuckle at the time, but there’s nothing funny about it anymore: Bat Man” or “Bat Guy” or “Bat Boy” — that’s what they called him. Ask the most hard-core baseball fan about John C. Odom […]

How does NCAA Division 3 compare to Division 1?

Remember last year when the Astros and their fans complained for a week about having to play a bunch of road games due to Hurricane Ike? Well, I didn’t have any sympathy for them then, and I definitely don’t have any sympathy for them now, because compared to the University of Maine at Presque Isle, […]