A regular topic of chatter on the website of Collectively Guided Intellectual Peoples—also known as Twitter—is that of position switching: as in, could a given position player pitch effectively, or can a pitcher handle the bat well enough to be a regular position player? We were stunned by the majestic nature of a Jake Arrieta […]
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Albert Almora, Jr.: Captain of the Next Wave
Every so often, the good Lord reaches down and touches a ballplayer with the innate ability to react in an instant to the crack of the bat. It happens so quickly, the average person misses it as they glance at their phone or sip their beverage. A drop-step and whirl before beelining to a descending baseball […]
Cerebral Kyle Hendricks Pitching With Carolina Confidence
“I’ll take care of you, man.” Those are the first words on my recording, and the first words any major-league player ever spoke to me with the knowledge that they might be published one day. “I’ll take care of you, man.” The guy on the recording was Kyle Hendricks, who I’d met a few days earlier—on my […]