Craig Tyson Adams

Shohei Ohtani is the greatest player in Major League Baseball history. There. I said it. He’s not the sport’s greatest hitter. Barry Bonds is. He’s not baseball’s greatest pitcher. Randy Johnson is. Ohtani isn’t better than both individually. Otani can do baseball things those two singularly couldn’t do.  Ohtani is an extremely good hitter, particularly a power hitter, and he can steal bases as he possesses elite speed. He’s the best combination of both power and speed since Bonds when Bonds was in his prime. But, Bonds couldn’t throw a 97 mph moving heater and a wipe-out split-fingered fastball for strikes.  Shohei Ohtani is an effective pitcher. Actually, being effective is an understatement. He’s an excellent pitcher. He’s the best pitcher on the Los Angeles Angels staff, which isn’t saying much, but Otani was the starting pitcher in the Major League All-Star Game for the American League this year, while leading the league in triples. That’s crazy.  In all actuality, Ohtani isn’t

Some guy pitched an MLB no-hitter. His name is Tyler Gilbert . If you don’t know who he is, that’s okay, me either. I’ve been following baseball since 1974. His name has never come up.  There have been a record 8 no-hitters thrown this year. That’s a lot. Like Larry King getting married a lot. The thing that makes Gilbert’s accomplishment for the Arizona Diamondbacks stand out is that it was his first major league start. That’s rare. It’s only happened 4 times since 1876.  The first two times a pitcher hurled an MLB no-hitter in his first start was back in the 1890s. Baseball was different back then. Home runs didn’t happen unless a fielder made a mistake, and the ball got by him. There weren’t pitching mounds back then, and they pitched from 55.5 feet away. Today’s pitchers throw from 60 feet and 6 inches.  Both no-hitters happened on the last day of the season, so my guess is the players wanted to get out of there and get to the pub. There were different priorities before players m

There was an MLB game played in a cornfield last night. They played the game in Iowa. We know Iowa for its agriculture. A cornfield in Iowa isn’t out of place. Major League Baseball in Iowa is.  The game was between the American League Central division-leading Chicago White Sox and the legendary New York Yankees . People that attended the game drove to a town in Iowa called Dyersville. Attendees parked in a gravel lot and got to walk through a corn maze to get to the field. Once there, there was a temporary baseball field that was constructed especially for the game.  Why go to all this effort? What’s all the fuss about? Why did Major League Baseball have two of their franchises transport their collective multi-millionaire players to the middle of the Midwest to play a single game?  To commemorate a movie, Field Of Dreams starring Kevin Costner , made 32 years ago. Now, I’m not one to make fun of nostalgia. MLB Field of Dreams is just that. I’ve got old records. My movie collec