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Free agents with nowhere to report for spring training

Free agents have been able to sign with teams for months. Some signed right away while others waited a while to figure out their new homes.  And yet others are still unsigned as players are beginning to report to spring training with the 2019 season right around the corner. Yes, every website, blog, and analyst has […]

The Veteran Free Agent

Free agency in baseball has become somewhat of a guessing game.  Not just in the sense of which team will make the best offer or how much will a player get, but in the sense of a given player receiving any interest at all. There has been a dramatic shift in valuation of players since the […]

2018 Season could be as unpredictable as March Madness – or not

The 2018 season has yet to begin, but there is a already a huge gap for expectations between the best and worst teams. Every site, writer, and ‘expert’ is making their season predictions, but this is no March Madness bracket packed with upsets. The strong have gotten stronger and the rest have fallen further behind. […]

FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches

Up until last year, I had been to all of the current Grapefruit League spring training facilities. Two stadiums, Space Coast Stadium in Viera and Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee, are no longer in use because their teams decided to upgrade and move in together. The Houston Astros and Washington Nationals now share a complex […]

Split Squad: Baseball Terminology

A split squad game at the Major League level usually only occurs during spring training. It refers to a team having two games scheduled in one day; thus the team is split into two squads. Simple right? When a team is scheduled to play split squad games, there is generally one at home and one […]