Welcome to The Shapkins Defender, where I inhale your toxic screeds and spit out the fresh oxygen of optimism, like a tree that kind of understands WAR. (Just don’t ask me to explain it.) By now, you’re surely aware of the Astros sign-stealing scandal and the recent fallout. I don’t want to spend too much…
We’re trudging along through the worst month of the off-season with roughly a month until pitchers and catchers report to spring training. The soap opera known as the Houston Astros can’t keep entertaining us for the next month, I don’t think, so, can we expect any more exciting transactions between now and mid-February?
In case you’ve been living under a rock, the Houston Astros don’t have a manager right now. A.J. Hinch was fired after being suspended by Major League Baseball for one year due to his role in the Astros cheating their way to a World Series title in 2017.
When he was 12 years old, Kendall Williams’ parents got divorced. By his own admission, the divorce was fairly messy, leading him and his father, Brent, to get pretty close over the next few years. Brent owned a construction company and worked a lot, often from 6 o’clock in the morning until dark. But, just…
