Among current general managers and presidents of baseball operations, 13, representing nearly half of the major leagues’ 30 teams, have been hired in the past two years. Some of the new guys have fated or are faring better than others.
For example, Dave Dombrowski won a division championship last year in his first full season as Boston’s president of baseball operations. The Red Sox finished the season with …
The former baseball commissioner was talking about the baseball writers whom I characterize as having trouble or no interest covering anything that doesn’t take place on the field. He was talking about them because he had received a call a day earlier from a Florida writer who called him with questions about Jeffrey Loria’s attempt to sell the Miami Marlins.
Despite interest from two groups who have been publicly identified and others who Commissioner Rob Manfred has said are interested, Loria has been unsuccessful in finding a buyer at his price and reportedly has been forced to lower his price from $1.6 billion to $1.3 billion and may have to lower it still more.
One of the questions the reporter asked Vincent was about Loria’s seemingly eye-popping …
The New York Yankees’ rookie right fielder has been so spectacular in the early months of the season that he qualifies for the sobriquet of phenom.
But who is Judge really? Let me offer some suggestions:
Roy Hobbs is the main character in Bernard Malamud’s 1952 novel “The Natural” and the 1984 film of the same title, a baseball player who overcomes his wound from being shot by a mysterious woman and, with his magical bat Wonderboy leads the New York Knights to the pennant. A telltale clue that links Judge to Hobbs is the crooked owner of the Knights who tries to get Hobbs to throw the playoff game for the pennant. He is known only as The Judge.
Joe Hardy (“Shoeless Joe from Hannibal Mo.”) is the character in the 1955 Broadway musical “Damn Yankees” who makes a deal with the Devil to …
