MLB: Most Interesting Man in Baseball – Part III
By Jim Turvey
Over the course of the past week or so, we have been trying to determine the Most Interesting Man in Baseball. In Part I of our series, we discussed what makes the Most Interesting Man in Baseball much harder to define than Best Player in Baseball and laid out the eight classic characters that fill the major leagues.
There’s The Cagey Veteran, The On-field Quirk, The Exception to the Rule, The Straight-up Weirdo, The Next Big Thing (?), The Just So Damn Good, The He’s One of Us, and Yoenis Cespedes.
In Part II of our series, we assigned the eight active representatives for each category a seed and began our knockout tournament. (It’s March, there’s no such thing as too many brackets.) We paired our group of eight down to four and set ourselves up for quite the Final Four.
On one side of our bracket, it’s all about talent. We have the best player in baseball pitted against one of the few players in the game with a ceiling anywhere close.
On the other side of our bracket, it’s all about personality. These two gents have plenty of talent, but the intrigue about their off-field nature played just as big a role in their inclusion in the Final Four.
Today, in the final part of our series, we will play out those semifinal matchups, as well as our championship showdown. By the end of this article you will have officially learned who the Most Interesting Man in Baseball is – at least according to this random baseball writer you stumbled upon. That’s the beauty of something as subjective as Most Interesting Man in Baseball, though. It’s sure to start a debate, a debate I hope spills over into the comments and gets people nice and fired up. So what do you say we get this thing started and kick off our first semifinal matchup?