Articles and Columns

This is a list of baseball articles I've written for various websites.  Enjoy!

Ballpark Digest

December 19, 2013  -  Risk vs. Reward in Home Plate Collisions
November 18, 2013  -  Gone Too Soon, or Good Riddance?
October 13, 2013  -  Why the Chihuahuas' Name Works
February 11, 2013  -  PEDs Intruding on Spring Training
January 8, 2013  -  Glory Days for the National Pastime
January 2, 2013  -  Today in Baseball History:  the early January edition
December 20, 2012  -  Holidays are Days of Optimism in Baseball World
December 17, 2012  -  Evaluating Player Trades via Rookie Cards

December 3, 2012  -  Prepping for the Baseball Winter Meetings

November 21, 2012  -  Bringing Back the Winning Jays Ways in Toronto

November 8, 2012  -  A Quartet of Baseball Stories

October 12, 2012  -  The Beat of October Baseball

October 4, 2012  -  Miggy or Mike for MVP?  Let the Debate Begin

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The Good Point

September 13, 2013  -  Speed Thrills
August 29, 2013  -  The Tommy John Chronicles
August 19, 2013  -  Kevin Pillar:  Life Before the Bigs
July 29, 2013  -  Bud Selig, Steroids, and Legacies
July 22, 2013  -  The Adage That Didn't Add Up
June 27, 2013  -  Superman is Baseball, Batman is Football
June 17, 2013  -  Countdown to Byron Buxton
May 24, 2013  -  The Peculiar Case of Prospect Development
May 9, 2013  -  Life on the Farm
April 26, 2013  -  Baseball in April
April 12, 2013  -  The Ballpark at the End of the Universe
March 28, 2013  -  What Isn't in a Name?  Of Sea Dogs and Rivercats
March 14, 2013  -  Three reasons the WBC can never be a Classic... and one reason why it already is
February 28, 2013  -  Baseball Reality Show Proposals Revealed
February 14, 2013  -  Alex Rodriguez in Perspective
January 25, 2012  -  The Spring Training Euphoria
January 11, 2013  -  The Hall That Belonged to Them
December 13, 2012  -  Celebrating Baseball's Distant Past

November 28, 2012  -  How to Win at the Winter Meetings

October 25, 2012  -  California's Underrated Blockbuster

October 11, 2012  -  Calling the Shots:  A Salute to Home Run Calls

September 13, 2012  -  The Human Factor:  Why Shutting Down Strasburg Works

August 23, 2012  -  The Benefit of Signing Clemens for the Sugar Land Skeeters

August 10, 2012  -  Evaluating Baseball's Stance on Chewing Tobacco

July 12, 2012  -  Celebrating the Career of the "Chipper" One

June 28, 2012  -  Making it Count:  Reinventing the MLB All-Star Game

June 14, 2012  -  The Three Most Despised Groups of Fans (and Why Your Team Needs Them)

June 4, 2012  -  MLB Castles Fit for Their Kings

May 24, 2012  -  Breaking Down the Real Tampa Bay Rays

May 11, 2012  -  How the Lonely Outfielder Won Over the Fans
April 26, 2012  -  The Real Reason Behind the Boston Malaise
April 12, 2012  -  Projecting the MLB Season after a Week of Games
March 30, 2012  -  All it Took Was a Bit of Magic
March 15, 2012  -  Drew Cumberland Through the Eyes of the Wise
March 1, 2012  -  Debating the Prospects at Spring Training
February 16, 2012  -  Is Yoenis Cespedes the Next Great Cuban Slugger?
November 22, 2011  -  A Guide to Life in the Sports Twitter-verse
November 16, 2011  -  I Want Ron Washington as my Manager
October 31, 2011  -  The Pitcher's Mound in November
September 12, 2011  -  The Umpire's Lament
September 6, 2011  -  100 Ways to Win
August 30, 2011  -  The Crack of the Mini-Bat:  A Broadcaster's Tribute to Baseball's Past
August 18, 2011  -  Sabotage in the Minor Leagues
August 1, 2011  -  Life in the Organization:  Jays prospects battle one game at a time

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PER Sports

March 24, 2008  -  Judging a Season by its Cover

March 7, 2008  -  What's Not to Love About Spring Training?

February 14, 2008  -  Death of the Devil

February 11, 2008  -  Guilty by Reason of Inanity

February 1, 2008  -  Hypothetical Situations and the Super-Natural

January 21, 2008  -  From Bud to Buck, 10 Baseball Trailblazers

January 13, 2008  -  Baseball Tested Again

January 6, 2008  -  Baseball's Five Tools of the Trade