My take on the MLB

What kid when he was younger didn’t want to play tee-ball, or little league? What 10 year old hasn’t heard of the great Babe Ruth? Well if you find a young boy who hasn’t, let me know. Baseball is a game of decades, and certain players jump out at you when you think of each time period. The 20′s? Babe Ruth, and murderer’s row. The 40′s? Dimmaggio, and the 56 game hit streak in ’41. The 2000′s? Barry Bonds, and how he made history, although that decade will go down in infamy, as the “steroid era.”

Now what will the 2010′s bring? So far it seems as though pitching is back ontop. Already a no hitter by Ubaldo Jiminez, and a perfect game by Dallas Braden, and were only 2 months into the season. So many promising youngsters already playing in the majors, or in the minors. Jiminez has a .99 era, yeah i said it a .99 earned run average through 9 starts, thats insane. Phil Hughes is 5-1, with a 2.72 era in 9 starts. Those are just two future aces, and i haven’t even mentioned the phenom that is Stephen Strasburg, who is tearing up the minor leagues, and is expected to make his first major league start for Washington sometime in the next two weeks.

I’m sure the hitters will have a say throughout the decade too, Joe Mauer, Evan Longoria, Robinson Cano, and Jason Heyward to name a few, but i have a diomand in the rough guy, a player the casual fan has never heard of, Bryce Harper. Harper is only 17 years old and playing in a junior league, after already being claimed by the Nationals. The young out fielder hit for the cycle last week, then followed it up hitting 4 home runs, a double, and a triple. Thats pretty good for a kid thats supposed to be a junior in high school. The Nationals are going to be scary good in a few years, if their prospects live up to the hype.

If all of this doesn’t get you excited about baseball, then nothing ever will. People complain the sport is too boring, well then don’t let the door hit you on the way out. This is a game of inches, an inch that could decide a stolen base, a home run, a strike or a ball. This is a game of the mind, deciding which pitch to throw, and where to throw it, and the players are getting paid the money to get the “inch” to go their way, and to make the correct choice of pitches to throw, and which ones to hit. Major League Baseball has a very bright future, and personally, i couldn’t be anymore excited.

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