When the Mets re-activated Andres Torres from the DL they had a choice of either sending down Zach Lutz or Jordany Valdespin. They picked to send down Lutz, who didn’t do much in his eight at-bat stint, collecting just one hit and striking out five times. It’s not like Valdespin had earned the right to [...]
1999 SKYBOX THUNDER RAVE BRIAN McRAE Ah, the underappreciated art of penning baseball-card backs... At its best, card-back text is an intersection of Hemingway and haiku, delivering key information and sublime insight in a tiny, rhythmic capsule of words: “Holder of host of fielding marks for NL 3rd sackers, Ron topped former high in RBI's [...]