Outfielder Cody Rogers was a 7th round draft choice of the Tampa Bay Rays in 2009, and has yet to break through to the majors. The 24-year-old batted .244 this past season for the Charlotte Stone Crabs, a Rays Single A affiliate, with 4 HRs, 38 RBIs and 39 runs scored. He is also a man who refuses to take required drug tests and has been suspended 50 games.

One of the reasons I love baseball is because it is the ultimate everyman sport. You can take as little care of yourself as David Wells, and still make millions of dollars a year as an “athlete” because all you have to do is hurl a ball 95 mph or hit it 410 feet. That’s why I absolutely adore 350-pound pitcher Jose “Jumbo” Diaz for stealing third base. Watch the big fella go, after the jump.

Of the unfathomable number of souls who have ever cycled through the minor leagues, not 25 have ever thrown a perfect game on the big league level. Still, that doesn’t mean they can’t fantasize about doing it themselves — and when one of the best to ever pitch for their parent club accomplished the feat, the Jackson Generals’ outfield was full of believers.

Here’s your typical baseball fight:

1) Player makes slightly egregious etiquette violation.
2) Both teams leave their benches and engage in some lackluster pushing and shoving to keep up appearances.
3) A few players continue to actually fight while everyone stands around.

The Asheville Tourists play in the Class A South Atlantic League, and the team’s manager, Joe Mikulik, is, well, emotional. He has a history of on-the-field meltdowns, so his latest tirade comes as no surprise. In a game against the Charleston RiverDogs, Mikulik came out to argue a call with an umpire, but his emotions got the best of him as his conversation quickly devolved into angry theatrics.

Earlier this month, the Reading Phillies minor league baseball team held an all-star game featuring a home run derby. That’s pretty standard, but this derby featured obstacles in the outfield and partiers on the infield. Video, sans death-by-baseball-to-the-dome, after the jump.

The Joliet Slammers and Southern Illinois Miners faced off on Friday night for some mid-summer baseball, but thunderstorms brought the game to a halt in the top of the 7th. The Silver Cross Field grounds crew subsequently brought out the tarp to preserve the infield, and everything seemed fine. But then the tarp started coming off the infield and some brave field soldiers tried to put it back in place. Then the wind kicked up even more.

Bill Murray is a part-owner of the Charleston RiverDogs, a single-A Yankees affiliate. This is important because it means that, when Bill Murray attends a RiverDogs game, he can basically do whatever he wants. When Bill Murray does whatever he wants, wacky things happen.

The World Series trophy, which was on display during a game in Springfield, Missouri, almost took a foul ball to the face on Saturday. Assuming that we don’t count human life as expensive (“priceless,” you could say), this screamer of a foul ball could have been the most costly ever. Why was the trophy in Springfield, MO in the first place? Details after the jump.