by Fred Lovato
Opening Day’s here
for displaced Jays, at this point,
any nest will do
AL East 2020 Projection Haiku
A Bardball exclusive, originally created by Stuart Shea
ORIOLES
Reduce reuse rebuild
If prospects were wishes
They’d have a parade
RED SOX
Get us a ring, Chaim
Also below the tax cap
Beat the Yanks too, ‘kay?
YANKEES
Last year’s injured list
Now a memory–Ooops!
Judge sidelined again.
RAYS
D’Arnaud, Garcia
Are off to greener pastures
They still grow talent.
BLUE JAYS
Twenty-one hurlers
Keep switching battery out
Of blue muscle car.
Goose, Eh?
By Michael X. Ferraro
Verlander flung filth
and picked up his third
no-hitter (career),
a total absurd.
Toronto is now
marked twice on that list,
their Canadian
clubs rudely dismissed.
Summer Nostalgia, July ’88
by Fred Lovato
‘Neath a clear blue sky
Jays-A’s play sixteen innings
Major League sunburn
Frescoes on the Outfield Wall
by Michael X. Ferraro
I am the glove of Kevin Kiermaier
and I am where triples go to retire.
I race across gaps, yawn at warning tracks
and make sluggers pay “The Willie Mays Tax.”
Dodgers executive Fresco Thompson once described Willie Mays’ glove as a place where “triples go to die.”
https://www.mlb.com/news/kevin-kiermaier-robs-rowdy-tellez-with-great-catch