Professional sports are full of cliches, and baseball might be the worst offender of all when it comes to the colloquial language of the game.
There are plenty of descriptors that may only make sense to those that follow the game. Anyone who follows baseball will hear terms of endearment like “dirt bag”, or hear folks blame the outcome on the “baseball gods” once in awhile.
Most of them are just terms that don’t make a lot of sense, or again, are relatable to those around the game and those who follow it. However, there’s one turn of phrase that we’ve heard a lot lately about the Blue Jays #1 prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr.