How about some World Baseball Classic news for the first time in a while? Sadly, some people reading this right now are even wondering what the WBC is? The WBC is Major League Baseball’s version of the World Cup and in 2013, it’s going to get a makeover. The previous two WBC’s featured 16 countries [...]
Back in January, I wrote a post title “The World Baseball Classic And The Affects On Starting Pitching.” I wrote the post to show that most pitchers who pitched in the WBC in 2006 had a worse era that season than they did in 2005. Now that we are over 30 games into the season [...]
With Team USA losing in last nights semi-final game in the WBC to Japan 9-4, it marked the 2nd time in 2 WBCtournaments they failed to even make the finals. So what is wrong with USA baseball? Why can’t they win a game that they invented? It’s time to take a look at the 4 things [...]
Team USA announced that Tampa Rays 3B, Evan Longoria will replace Chipper Jones on their roster. To get a player of Longoria’s caliber this late in the tournament, I think is a huge upgrade for Team USA. I hope Longoria gets the chance to start (perhaps at DH instead of Jeter) in Team USA’s Semi-Final game [...]
I would like to introduce a new category on The Ghost of Moonlight Graham called Inside The Lines. I am going to a do a running blog during select games and the idea is to give analysis of a game or games as they happen. Since tonight is an elimination game for Team USA, I thought I would start [...]
The team that was representing the country where baseball was invented was humiliated last night at the World Baseball Classic. Team USA was mercy ruled in a 11-1 loss to Puerto Rico last night. The last time I was witness to the mercy rule was when I was coaching Little League back in 2000. This [...]
