Sunday, February 13, 2022

Newsletter Excerpt, February 13, 2022 -- "The DH, in 2022"

This is a preview of the Joe Sheehan Baseball Newsletter, an e-mail newsletter about all things baseball, featuring analysis and opinion about the game on and off the field from the perspective of the informed outsider. Joe Sheehan is a founding member of Baseball Prospectus and has been a contributor to Sports Illustrated and Baseball America. He has been writing about baseball for nearly 25 years.

Your subscription gets you the newsletter and various related features two to five days a week, more than 150 mailings (more than 200,000 words) a year full of smart, fun baseball writing that you can't find in the mainstream. Subscribers can also access the new Slack workspace, to talk baseball with me and hundreds of other Newsletter subscribers.

You can subscribe to the newsletter for one year for $59.95 using your PayPal account or major credit card.

--
 
"Finally, there are the Quad-A guys, the ones who can hit and maybe not do much else. There are now 15 more jobs for this class, and some of them are going to pop. I mentioned Gorman, but the Cardinals also have Juan Yepez, a 24-year-old minor-league vet who hit .290/.382/.589 in his first exposure to Triple-A. Tyler White, once a top Astros prospect, has landed in Milwaukee at 31 off a .424 OBP at Triple-A last year. Seth Beer is a bit of a forgotten man after his college career at Clemson, but the introduction of an NL DH creates space for him in the Diamondbacks’ lineup."