This seems like as good a place to resume as any. It has been a rocky respite, neither planned nor welcomed, but something that couldn’t be avoided. But as someone wrote long ago, all’s well that ends well.

Much I would like to have written about has occurred in my nearly two missing months, and you’ll please excuse me if I belatedly bring up some of them. However, this is a current event, so I will begin with this.

How is Mike Trout the American League most valuable player? Of what value was he to the Angels’ last-place finish in the A.L. West? Could they have …

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Due to an unexpected circumstance this website has not produced its usual output of two columns per week. I apologize for that but accept that sometimes these medical things can’t be avoided. I shall return.

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At around the same time Adam Jones was recently gaining baseball-wide notoriety by saying baseball was “a white man’s game,” the Toronto Blue Jays hired an executive and demonstrated once again that baseball is a white man’s game.

In naming Ben Cherington their vice president for baseball operation, the Blue Jays did what all of the other Major League Baseball teams do. They hire white guys as managers and front-office executives. Blacks, Latinos and women need not apply.

The last time I wrote about diversity hiring in baseball, a reader questioned my omission of Kim Ng as a general manager candidate, and he was right so I mention her upfront this time.

However, not that I doubt Ng’s credentials or her ability – she has been assistant general manager of the Yankees and Dodgers and currently is an executive in the commissioner’s office – but I am realistic and certain that no owner will …

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