In the wake of a disastrous 2026 season the Mildenhall Baseball Club did what all teams do when facing the abyss, they went into rebuilding mode.  And for the third time in franchise history they have emerged in two seasons or less as perhaps the OTBA’s most improbable playoff team.  Last season’s club tried to hang on with [...]

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Perhaps Mildenhall has finally finished cleaning house.  At least it better have because there’s not a whole lot of furnishing left.  In yet another financially inspired move the club has dealt another one of it’s all-time greats, trading second baseman and fan favorite Michael Saffold to New Jersey for minor leaguer Roberto Lucero.
In the most [...]

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It’s time to put all the flowery rhetoric and false optimism aside, roll up the sleeves, and figure out the most efficient way to make Mildenhall a contender again.  Logically that assumes everyone accepts the hard fact that Mildenhall no longer is a contender.  Fans and supporters have been spoiled for two decades.  Oh there [...]

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You know that when you are writing one of those articles talking about how great a ball club’s rookies are playing it’s a sure sign that team is having a horrible year.  And as this writer trumps the Mildenhall rookies that rule is definitely holding true again.  Mildenhall is having a horrible season currently at [...]

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Mildenhall is facing uncertain times.  2025 was a fiasco for the club with several all-star caliber players suffering through the worst season of their careers.  Several reliable players have been jettisoned in the off-season and the club is clearly in a transitory period from the old to the new.  There are plenty of recognizable old [...]

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Mildenhall has had a pretty good history with centerfielders, but picking the all-time best was really rather simple.  You could go into the team record books for single season and see one guy’s name all over things like at bats, hits, runs scored, or singles.  Or you could go over to the career numbers and [...]

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This will undoubtedly be the most controversial choice for the all franchise team.  How do you pick your best pitchers anyway?  Most career wins?  Best ERA?  Biggest wins?  Most impact?  For our purposes we decided to go with a combination of everything.  Impact and big wins played perhaps a bigger role than some would like.  [...]

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Mildenhall has pretty much taken to the theory of rental pitchers to man it’s bullpen.  With few exceptions, not a great deal of effort has been paid down on the farm to developing relievers.  However, for the most part the concept of bringing in developed guys from other organizations has worked well as Mildenhall usually [...]

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Left field has been one of the more interesting positions in Mildenhall history.  Ten different players are listed at one time or another as the team’s regular player there in the last 20 years.  At first glance that would seem to indicate a certain futility on the club’s part to man the position.  In truth [...]

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Being named the starting thirdbaseman for the Mildenhall Club is kind of like being named the new drummer for Spinal Tap.  Maybe saying the position is cursed is taking things a bit far, but there is a history here.  Yes, Albert Delarosa did play literally every inning at third for the inaugural season in Fist [...]

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