Night Owl Cards

    Andrew McCutchen found a new team yesterday. He's a Brewer, continuing his tour through every team in major league baseball apparently. Not only has McCutchen bounced from team to team the last five years but many others have as well. The transactions on the baseball wire the past week are arriving rapid-fire as teams are making up for lost time. Then there's that practice of rotating players in and out of the lineup, up and down from the minors, that has grown in frequency the last few years. Nobody stays in place much anymore and it's very tough as a fan to keep up. You need alerts on your phone to keep track and then you'd promptly turn notifications off because the incessant beeping would drive you batty.   Not only is it difficult to stay on top of who is on what team but you're now required to keep track of prospects, too. The attention given to prospects is off the charts compared with what it was when I first got into baseball. Prospects were guys you sa...

  Apologies for the morbid post, but I'm discovering that this is going to be a difficult time of year for me from now on. My mom passed away two years ago on Mother's Day and my dad a month later. It's the second anniversary of that time period and the fragility of life is naturally on my mind. It doesn't help that the players on my baseball cards keep leaving. Nothing underlines one's mortality quite like the news that another player whose card you collected as a kid has died. I periodically recognize those recently departed players from my youth with individual posts but those passings of players from the very first set I ever collected -- 1975 Topps -- have been coming so frequently this year that I can't keep up. Often I'm just too shocked to write anything (For frequent commenter, steelehere, who often randomly mentions a former Dodger player's death on my posts, I do pay tribute to them on Twitter, even if I don't mention it on the blog. Here ...