The TBL Baseball Annual A publication of the Transcontinental Baseball League The Youth Movement The Rookie, Norman Rockwell, 1957 2014 Edition Walter H. Hunt All 24 Teams Analyzed Mark H. Bloom Using the T.Q. System The TBL Baseball Annual A publication of the Transcontinental Baseball League by Walter H. Hunt Mark H. Bloom with contributions from TBL’s managers and extra help from: Robert Jordan Clay Beard Mark Freedman Paul Harrington Paul Montague Ray Murphy Jim Dietz Aline Hunt Copyright © 2014 Walter H. Hunt, except Kiner’s Corner, which is copyright © 2014, Jim Dietz. This book was produced using a Macintosh with Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop CS4. I can be reached by mail at 3306 Maplebrook Road, Bellingham, MA 02019 or by e-mail at
[email protected]. The 2014 TBL Annual 3 the TBL baseball annual Welcome to the 2014 TBL Baseball Annual. This is the nineteenth year of the Annual in the book format. Last year’s book was an abbreviated work, what could be managed under the circumstances. This year’s book returns to the standards we have previously set, with some graphic advice from a talented young professional-in-training. Regrettably we don’t have the Vegas Line this year; hopefully it’ll be back next year for us. Youth and talent is a combination every team in TBL wants to build and maintain on its roster. This year we discuss the component of team-building that the T.Q. System does not cover: the people on the roster that will be part of the team two or five or more years from now.