An Interview with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr.
A recent interview with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr (SS/3B) of the Baltimore Orioles speaks to Ryan Bere of Boston Baseball about his clinic in Boston, his baseball camps in South Carolina and Maryland, and his view on amateur adult baseball and coaching. Find more videos like this on CheckSwing
My Guest Appearance on Pro Rumors TV
Here is the video from my guest appearance on Pro Rumors TV this past Saturday night, 2/20/10. The two hosts are live and they called me up as their guest that night. By the way, I had topics of interest to go by, but that last question wasn’t on the list they gave me, hence […]
Baltimore Orioles: Keys for a Successful 2010
With Spring Training starting and the 2010 baseball season only weeks away, it is the time of the year when fans of the Baltimore Orioles can start dreaming that maybe this is the year that our decade long nightmare ends. The Orioles were not among the most aggressive or highest spending teams in the offseason, […]
Baseball Reflections Weekly Mailbag
Happy Saturday! Pitchers and catchers have reported to Spring Training camp and position players will be reporting soon, too. Life is good! To celebrate this momentous event we have decided to host a weekly (we hope) mailbag. This is where YOU, the Baseball Reflections readers, get to ask questions of the Baseball Reflections staff (me […]
Top 10 Fantasy CF in 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife These weekly posts of mine have been based on a rotisserie format using a traditional 5×5 scoring system to keep things simple. Personally I prefer more statistics in my leagues (which is why I was the commissioner in one of my leagues), but in order to reach the most […]
What is Japanese Baseball?
Ever since 1872, when professor Horace Wilson explained the game of baseball to his students at Kaisei Gakko (now Tokyo University), the Japanese have been obsessed with the American pastime. Americans have been familiar with some aspects of baseball in Japan, but generally that knowledge was limited to home run leader Sadaharu Oh and Japanese […]
Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) Now on Blog Talk Radio!
The writers of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance would like to announce that they are taking to the airwaves. Beginning Tuesday, February 16th at 11 pm Eastern, BBA Baseball Talk can be found at Blog Talk Radio. This one-hour show will discuss the big stories of the day in major league baseball and other baseball-related topics. […]
MLB STUDIES DRSEA SUGGESTION TO FINGERPRINT DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BASEBALL PROSPECTS
According to published reports, Major League Baseball is considering an idea suggested last summer by the Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy to fingerprint potential prospects in the Dominican Republic in an effort to curb age and identity fraud. A New York Times article says Major League Baseball is studying a number of initiatives, including […]
BackyardBall: A book on Whiffleball, aka Plastic Ball
Backyard Ball By Thomas P. Hannon, Jr. This is a fun filled book about the world of Plastic Baseball or Wiffle Ball. It includes all the information you need to start playing as a family game or serious league play. Use this book to help rediscover your Backyard and read about people who actually built […]
A Monday in the Offseason: Dustin Pedrioa (video)
Here’s the second video of a workout day in the life of…by NESN on a member of the Boston Red Sox. If you haven’t guessed by the title, this video follows Boston’s Diminutive Bad Boy, 2B Dustin Pedroia at his home in Arizona. Check it out and tell us what you think. What you liked […]
The 2010 Brewers & The Groundhog Day Principle:
Image via Wikipedia Last week was Groundhog Day (the holiday, not the Bill Murray Movie). Per Groundhog Day tradition, the weather outside when the groundhog emerges hibernation is supposed to correlate with how much longer winter is supposed to last. For this article I decided to apply this principle with a twist. I’m going to […]
Former Phillies Player, Dave Hollins, Tell His Diabetes Story
I have recently decided that Baseball Reflections will start broadening our horizons just a bit. Call it one of our 2010 resolutions. We will now be bringing you selected videos in a more frequent basis than we have in our previous two years of operation. We hope this ads to your enjoyment of this site! […]
Breaking Down Liriano’s DWL Dominance
This article was originally written by Andrew Kneeland back on January 29, 2010 on his site Twins Target. If you haven’t already heard, Francisco Liriano appears to be back to his old self. After putting up a 0.80 ERA in just under 50 innings of work in the Domincan Winter League, Liriano has impressed scouts […]
Cardinals Are Not Dormant During Winter
While for a lot of teams, the offseason is a quiet time, a time for renewal and reflection. For the Cardinals, this offseason has been anything but. It would have been hard to believe after the final out of the NLDS that anything would overshadow the pursuit of Matt Holliday during the winter. After all, […]
Baseball Reflection’s Affiliation with Amazon
Image via CrunchBase As some of you have noticed, we have joined the Amazon affiliate program some time ago. What you may not know is what’s available through Baseball Reflections.com so this post is here to tell you just that! For starters, you can view and purchase from our aStores which is where you can […]
Interview With An (female) Umpire, Part 2
Here is the second part of my interview with female umpire, Perry Lee Barber… 8. Who, if you can tell us, was/is the worst and was it because of their attitude in general or the fact that you’re a woman umpire? I always suspect that the “attitude in general” has more to do with any […]
Interview With An (female) Umpire Part 1
Umpire/Musician Perry Lee Barber Here’s a direct linked summary of Ms. Barber right from her personal LinkedIn profile: Twenty-nine seasons of umpiring all levels of baseball both professional and amateur, including major league spring training and Division I college baseball, with international umpiring experience in Japan and Taiwan and four years of umpiring and scheduling […]
Help Us Improve Baseball Reflections.com
During this busy Hot Stove Season we are taking this opportunity to ask you, our readers, what you like, dislike about Baseball Reflections.com. Likewise, we want to know what you want to see more of and what you would like to see us write about that we don’t already do. To contribute your most important […]
A Recent Flurry of Free Agent Signings
Image via Wikipedia Chad Tracy to the Cubs to a minor league deal that can be worth up to $900K if he gets 450 plate appearances Ben Sheets to the A’s for 1-year at $10M plus incentive bonuses Jim Thome to the Twins for 1-year and $1.5M with up to $750K in incentives Jon Garland […]
The Priesthood Wins Out Over Baseball?!
This week a top OF prospect in the A’s farm system by the name of Grant Desme (23) has decided to leave baseball to pursue a higher calling. The 8th ranked player in the Oakland A’s system was looking like he could get the call to join the major league team during spring training, but […]
Stadium Review: Nationals Stadium, Home of the Washington Nationals
Image by aquarian librarian via Flickr Even though the Washington Nationals don’t have their own baseball history and Washington D.C. is not known as a hub for baseball traditionalists and major fans of America’s pastime, their stadium just may be one of the best in the league. Nationals Stadium is obviously one of the newer […]
DRSEA INFORMER: Home Court Advantage
Volume III, Issue 2 By Charles Farrell La Ventaja De Campo (Home Court Advantage) In what looks like a continuing trend, a court in the Dominican Republic has ordered the New York Yankees to pay more than $750,000USD to Carlos Rios, their former director of Latin American scouting, after ruling that his firing was unlawful. […]
The Top 10 Fantasy DH of 2009
These weekly posts of mine have been based on a rotisserie format using a traditional 5×5 scoring system to keep things simple. Personally I prefer more statistics in my leagues (which is why I was the commissioner in one of my leagues), but in order to reach the most readers we will just stick with […]
Blue Jays Reflections on the New GM
Greetings from the frozen north, and man is it frozen this winter. Anyway, what has been going on with the Jays? Well, we are about 100 days into the career of our new GM Alex Anthopoulos and so far most reviews are positive. His first few steps have been to beef up our scouting department […]
Baseball Reflections Now on Japanese Baseball
I’m excited to contribute to Baseball Reflections because it combines two of my loves: Japan and baseball. I grew up with an Okinawan mother and an American father. Even though I thought my mom’s heritage was cool, I barely noticed because I spent all of my time sitting next to my dad watching sports. Growing […]
Mark McGwire’s PED Admission: How Truthful Was it?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Admission The other day, former A’s and Cardinals slugging first baseman “finally” admitted to using steroids back in his playing days. But, he only admitted to using them as a health benefit to help him keep from his body breaking down and keep him in the game. He […]
A Night With the Outerbanks Daredevils
Loyal Baseball Reflections readers may have noticed my absence from these pages in the past half year. I took a leave due to the fact that I got married in July and had to make sure to get fully adjusted to life as a husband, working full time and going to graduate school at night […]
New Era In Baseball
DRSEA INFORMER Volume III, Issue 1: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Nueva Era En Béisbol (New Era In Baseball) by Charles Farrell The new year is starting with something that hasn’t happened in more than a quarter-century; a new union boss at the Major League Baseball Players Association. Michael Weiner has succeeded Don Fehr […]
Andre Dawson: 2010 Hall of Fame Inductee
Image via Wikipedia Belated Congratulations On Wednesday, January 6th, OF Andre “Hawk” Dawson, in his 8th year of eligibility (starts 5 years after retirement) was the sole player inductee into the 2010 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Career Highlights 21 seasons 2627 Games Played Rookie of the Year in 1977 NL MVP in […]
Akadema’s Prodigy Series Youth Baseball Gloves
Prodigy Design Series AOZ 91, For players ages 9-13 Anyone who has followed my writing closely from the start or who happens to know me personally should know that I am a HUGE Ozzie Smith fan! His Cardinals number is on my HS class ring as my favorite position to play in HS was SS. […]
