There will be minor league baseball in 2021. Which, y’know, wasn’t the case in 2020.
That reminder is one of the first things that jumped out to me while reading the “Break Camp” roster released by the Frisco RoughRiders yesterday, the full version of which features a column labeled “last team” that notes when and where each player suited up most recently.
Twenty-two of the 24 names listed haven’t played in a professional game since 2019, with the exceptions being Sherten Apostel, who got into seven games with the big league club last season, and 2017 fifth-round pick Jake Latz, who killed off some pandy time in indy ball with the Sugarland Skeeters.