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Which Reserve Clause Star Would Be Most in Demand?

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Baseball Prospectus found an interesting interview with Ted Williams from August 23rd, 1940. In it he’s asked who he would sign with if he were a free agent; Williams answered “the Dodgers” because he “knew he’d be a hero in Brooklyn.” That was only two years into Williams’ career, but it got me to thinking out of all the [...]

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Could Baseball Succeed in Montreal the Second Time Around?

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Newsday’s Ken Davidoff listed the five worst baseball markets in a recent column: Tampa Bay, Arizona, Oakland, Miami, and Washington. It made me think of the Montreal Expos and whether MLB really did their best to save baseball in the Province of Quebec. I am not sure any of those cities mentioned by Davidoff are worse than [...]

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