I have to say that one of the best things that ESPN has done over the past year or so was to start offering some real investment into getting some first class blogs going on their site. Hashmarks, their NFL blog, and TrueHoop, their NBA blog are both loaded with excellent writing, insightful analysis, some great interviews (the guys who write Hashmarks especially, as they are good with getting interviews with GM’s, team presidents, and other high ranking officials), and an in-depth look at stats.
My point is that I would love to see ESPN start up a similar blog for baseball. Right now, they have “blogs” from several of their correspondents that read more like daily dispatches from around the league than real blogs. I do like some of them. Rob Neyer has some decent dispatches that look at what newspaper writers around the league have to say about what’s happening in baseball which are insightful, but it lacks the real dedication that a permanent blogger can add to the mix because all the baseball guys are either TV analysists or columnists for the website in addition and you can tell in the quality of their work that this is the place where the put most of their concentration. It would make a great addition to the world of ESPN to see a baseball blog that’s as in depth and insightful as their excellent NBA and NFL blogs.
