Ryan O’Rourke is the creator of Bunting For Power and a baseball diehard who began his sports writing career for the FanSided blog Cubbies Crib in 2019, spanning everything from playoff pushes to a monumental sell-off and steady rebuild. His further baseball essays can be found on Medium. After graduating from Eureka College, he became a freelancer for the entertainment news site Collider, eventually expanding his role as a senior news writer. Across his career, he’s covered three historic labor stoppages (the 2021-2022 MLB lockout, 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes), multiple Hall of Fame classes, and the tragic death of Coyote vs. Acme among other things.