Almost inevitably, it seems in retrospect, the events that followed — expansion, divisional play, nighttime World Series games, artificial turf, the designated hitter — honored financial expediency rather than
good baseball sense.
Not exact matches
If you want to stop tanking in
baseball — we're talking in the NBA
sense, where teams intentionally set themselves up to lose, allowing them
better odds at a top draft pick — the solution is simple: Make it so that the MLB Draft is an enigmatic mess, where thousands and thousands of working hours from scouts and executives lead to incorrect decisions to draft players who provide absolutely no value to their new franchise.
It might have been too late by then, and this team might not be very
good — they were the only team in
baseball not to score 100 runs in August, and only the Mariners and Braves allowed more runs — so it might have been a blessing that the
sense of panic came too late.
isn't just a phrase
baseball coaches holler when their batter has the
good sense not to swing at a bad pitch.
semi retired psychology teacher and counselor - coach youth
baseball and tackle football - also work at a boys summer camp - my likes are - being in nature, long walks, photography, animals, kids, working out, movies, reading,
good conversation,
sense of humor, romance, and much more!
I have to let that be known, I love sports, NBA, NFL and every now some
baseball, one day I «am going to a basketball game, I have a very
good sense of humor, I «am definitely no drama queen, I «am easy to...