started at South Side Sox in 2018 after 20 years of writing on basketball, baseball and hockey, including time on the Blackhawks and White Sox beats. Follow him on Twitter @BrettBallantini and email your site feedback to brettballantini@yahoo.com
Brett Ballantini’s favorite week of the month, when he gets to again call on president and GM of the first-place Birmingham Barons, Jonathan Nelson. Even after a tightly-fought series in Pensacola didn’t go Birmingham’s way, the club is still tops in the Southern League.
- Despite losing five of six to the Blue Wahoos, the Barons have won five of their last 10 and remain a half-game better than their fellow division-leading counterparts, Pensacola
- How manager Sergio Santos has handled the first tough turn of the season
- Inside baseball: How Jonathan works hand-in-hand with this field manager
- A preview of this week’s home series hosting the Chattanooga Lookouts, worst in the Southern League
- Bryan Ramos’ call-up and delightful character
- Will Brooks Baldwin ever stop hitting
- The phenom, Wilfred Veras
- The most terrifying offensive weapon in Birmingham?