Before the din of their World Championship celebration died down last year, Chris Chambliss was fired from his job as the hitting coach for the New York Yankees. He resurfaced this spring as manager of Florida’s Triple-A team, the Calgary Cannons. Chambliss is probably the most qualified managerial candidate in baseball today, but has yet…
Right now, 30 major-league organizations are making decisions that will impact the success of their franchise over the next few years, and in some cases, for a decade or more. Unlike the football and basketball versions, though, the annual draft of young talent doesn’t receive national television coverage or make men with good hair and…
Part One This continues our update on how the first round of last year’s draft is performing this season. We’re not assigning grades or drawing conclusions. For a look at a draft from a few years out, I highly recommend John Sickels’s piece on the 1996 draft, available from ESPN.com. Billy Traber, Mets. Traber is…
The annual "First-Year Player" draft is occurring as you read this. Baseball’s draft, unlike the football and basketball ones, brings in players who don’t make an impact at the major-league level for a few years. Even the most polished college draftees do not generally appear in the majors for at least a year. Even if…