Opening Day for Major League Baseball is Sunday night so we’re going to spend the next five days preparing ourselves for the boys of summer. (That’s right, I’m going to attempt to pen five articles this week for Canon Fodder. If it means I have to neglect my newly gallbladder-less wife and ailing child, well, that’s just what I’ll have to do.)
For Day One, we’ll examine a diamond’s worth of players lingering around MLB with starting jobs despite the big fork protruding from their respective backs. These are the guys holding down starting jobs for little or no apparent reason. Let’s call it the “All-Cooked Teamâ€. (more…)