TBL post-draft analysis for your viewing pleasure

In the “Because-it’s-fun-to-watch-guys-talk-about-APBA-cards” department, here’s a couple videos submitted by Steve Stein of the Transcontinental Baseball League. The TBL is a 24-team play-by-mail league and its name is no misnomer. Members of the league span the continent from New England, Midwest and the West. These two videos were recorded after…

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Final Card Friday: 2013 Roy Halladay

You know you’re getting old when first-ballot Baseball Hall of Famers were born five years after you. How did that happen? It seems like only yesterday when Hall of Famers were old men. Unfortunately, Roy Halladay didn’t get to become an old man or stand at the podium this coming…

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Final Card Friday: 2013 Mariano Rivera

Though statistically there are several more deserving players who could have been the first to get 100% of the vote for the Baseball Hall of Fame, there are none who could have been any more humbled with the honor than Mariano Rivera. There’s little doubt Rivera deserves to be a…

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Soto, Acuna go 1-2 in 2019 TBL draft

The Transcontinental Baseball League held their online draft Saturday. Two outfielders went first and both went to the same manager, the Nationals’ Juan Soto and the Braves’ Ronald Acuna were chosen by Joe Auletta of the Brobdingnag Barbarians. Per Steve Stein’s correction in the comments section: Warrenton had traded the…

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