![]() The cover on this particular edition features Carl Yastrzemski taking a pickoff throw at first base while an unidentifiable Oakland A’s baserunner (presumably Rickey Henderson, but I like to imagine it’s Shooty Babitt), dives headlong back to the bag. (Though I suppose Morgan proved to a larger audience through broadcasting that the chasm between being a thinking man’s ballplayer and even an adequate analyst of the game he played so brilliantly can be puzzlingly enormous.)Īnyway, that explanation before I stumble into another too-early digression: Those snippets are from The Scouting Report: 1984, an annual that had a five-or-so-year run among baseball junkies in the middle of that decade. ![]() He may manage someday.īefore I dig in to the batter’s box here, an appreciative doff of the cap for making it this far, through that unexplained paragraph of subjective retro-hyperbole and a horrifying throwback threat of Joe Morgan having a team of his own to mismanage. …While the tools that made a potential Hall of Famer have eroded, his knowledge of the game remains keen. Follow him on Twitter no way Cal Ripken can be stopped at the plate unless a pitcher has a Rich Gossage fastball, a Mark Clear curve, a Jerry Koosman change and the control of a Saint … Charles Dickens may have written the original Great Expectations, but Jon Matlack penned a Texas sequel in his first year with the Rangers. He lives in Wells, Maine, with his wife, two children, and a cat named after Otis Nixon who is older than Mike Trout. If you'd like to nominate a guest contributor (including yourself), please drop us a line.Ĭhad Finn is a sports columnist for and the sports media columnist for The Boston Globe. In an effort to up your reading pleasure while tipping our caps to some of the most illuminating work being done elsewhere on the internet, we'll be yielding the stage once a week to the best and brightest baseball writers, researchers and thinkers from outside of the BP umbrella. Most of our writers didn't enter the world sporting with a few exceptions, they started out somewhere else.
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