It’s been a busy month being an old, cranky, former ballplayer. After the recent incident involving Adam Jones, where fans at Fenway Park shouted racial slurs, former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling defiantly declared that Jones made the whole thing up. Two nights ago, during the Yankees-Red Sox NESN broadcast, former player Jerry Remy said that Masahiro Tanaka shouldn’t have a translator because he should just understand “baseball language”.
Most significantly, however, Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt stated the following on SportRadio 94WIP on Tuesday morning:
"My honest answer to that [whether the Phillies can build a team around Odubel Herrera] would be no because of a couple of things," Schmidt told SportsRadio 94WIP.