things I learned about in baseball this week/how i learned to stop worrying and love baseball

Just like the real conversation all the actual points came back to me late

- “Do foreign players play baseball? Are they any good?”
I talk about Dominicans and Venezuelans and point to Ceddanne Rafaela and say, he’s from Curaçao but I don’t know if that counts as part of the Netherlands or not. Literally ten minutes later OH YEAH SHOHEI OHTANI
- yeah so his assistant who was his best friend stole $16m from him and it was a HUGE thing and now I guess he’s going to jail
- yeah he deferred $680m presumably until he’s living in a different tax jurisdiction but it’s all on NPV so it’s not actually $680m in 2024 money I think?
- yeah they do get injured all the time throwing like that

“Do foreign players play baseball? Are they any good?”

You have no doubt posted about this and I missed it, but I literally learned yesterday time that the Red Sox have one of only two Portuguese-born players in MLB history on their roster, Isaiah Campbell; the other was Frank Thomspon, who played 12 games for Washington and Brooklyn in 1875. How did I find out? Well, as you might expect, it all started with an upcoming book on Canadian glam rock.

time

I didn’t post that but I did know that. My Sox friend says there’s a Portuguese community there that’s very excited about him. He’s currently rehabbing an injury (along with 90% of the roster)