Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

Chris Russo recently made the worst baseball argument of all time on an episode of First Take. Chris “Mad Dog” Russo is famously known for coming up with strong and often comically misguided sports ...

In the restless saga in which baseball aspires to become a modern game yet secretly pines for the 1940s version of itself, there are no new arguments, only new participants in them. Generations pass, ...

My favorite scene from the film “Eight Men Out,” in which the great John Sayles explores the Black Sox scandal and the throwing of the 1919 World Series, takes places years after the alleged cheaters, ...

One of the more pointless arguments in sports is this one: Who is the best player in baseball? The answer given is invariably either Alex Rodriguez or Albert Pujols. Say what you want about A-Rod, and ...

Tuesday will generate more debate, arguments, name-calling, verbal abuse and open hostility than any time on the baseball calendar. The Hall of Fame announcement will be celebrated briefly, but people ...

Another argument at a youth baseball game spiraled into disturbing behavior when a Babe Ruth League baseball coach pulled a handgun on the parent of one of his players after an argument with an umpire ...

This is an argument in favor of the Giants re-signing Madison Bumgarner. It will not lean on the “it’s not my money” trope, even though that always applies in every sport. It will be light on the ...

St. Louis Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt has been tearing it up at the Triple-A level. He's already a top-five prospect according to Baseball America with room to move even higher on the list, ...