A lot of baseball news has gone down in the last few weeks. Some real important, others real sketchy. But one bit of under-the-radar news is that Russell A. Carleton parted ways with the Mets.
Carleton was a front office guy with the Mets, and the only reason I really know this is because I loved his work with Baseball Prospectus and in his book, The Shift, which is up there with The MVP Machine for my favorite baseball book from the last decade.
But the reason Carleton’s unemployment is noteworthy to you fine readers is that it means he’s back on Twitter, sharing fun stuff like this:
The annual post-HOF challenge:
1) Pick an MLB franchise.