Mitchell Plassmeyer's Baseball Blog

Opening Day is coming in hot and its the best time of the year.  This is the time baseball fans wait for every year.  It gives all teams hope from day one they can win or change the outcome of their previous season.  We were reminded not so long ago that teams can change their whole season in one off-season.  This is the best taught lesson that gives sport fans the sense of hope and longing or their team to be good.  We will see how this season goes for everyone around here's favorite division, the NL central.  Around here its a good mix of Cub, Cardinal, and Brewer fans i have noticed, so we should have a pretty tight and heated division once again as all three teams have stayed on top of their off season additions and resignings.  The Cubs look to maybe fall off a bit after not stitching up their bullpen needs which glared at the end of last years season.  The Cardinals added a big bat they were missing in Paul Goldschmidt, and they also got a f...

Ohtani was finally spotted on the Spring Training complex fields pre-game playing catch for the first time since Tommy-John surgery.  The biggest story-line of last years off-season was sadly injured midway through the season was sentenced to just hitting for the remainder of the year.  As he was the biggest two-way prospect to come since Babe Ruth in terms of hype, he showed his 100mph fastball and his big time power bat for the first half of the year leading up to his injury. He did show that he can hold his own on either side of the ball which makes his return to the diamond that much more fun to watch what they do with him.  Since about 4 months post Tommy-John you are allowed to his, it'll be interesting to see if they let him hit while he is rehabbing his arm or if they keep him out all together. He's such an attraction to fans that putting him in the DH role will keep the fans coming to the ballpark even if the Angels are not very good overall once again.  It'...

It finally happened everyone! Bryce Harper finally made his decision and sold his soul to a franchise until basically he's on his last leg playing ball at the age of 38.  He signed a 13 year deal with the Phillies.  This locks him up for all of his prime and his decline for the remainder of his career because he got the no-trade clause and money he was looking for.  He signed for a whopping 330-million dollars.  Just an absolutely absurd amount of money like his young counterparts Arenado and Machado signed for these past few weeks.  This basically set the gold standard for Mike Trout in his future free agency signing period.  The kids playing today are drooling over becoming the next big time star like these guys to get locked up with job security and the ability to make 30 plus million a year and compete for championships. Its truly a nation wide phenomenon watching how much baseball players can get paid nowadays.  Play baseball kids, play baseball....