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In 1927, Lou Gehrig produced an 11.4 oWAR (this is bWAR, with the defensive element removed). This explosive display is the showcase of all showcases for first basemen, the unsurpassed mark for the position. And thus, Gehrig gets us started on a fun offensive dream team, one made up by […]
Following this opening, there’s a little more than a thousand words devoted to connecting the three AL MVP finalists from 2024 to the past. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are going to be referenced, as will Honus Wagner and Rogers Hornsby. Ted Williams and Stan Musial are brought up, as […]
For his efforts during the 1999 season, Pedro Martínez was the unanimous winner of the AL Cy Young Award. “Efforts” is probably the most mundane, vanilla, blah descriptive ever for the right-hander’s season, for it was a supernova display, a realization of a magician and genius at the height of […]
Thanks to a pair of Triple Crown winners, the 2024 Cy Young Award races appear to hold little drama for the unveiling. Since the award has been bestowed on an ace or aces of the season (1956), a Triple Crown winner has now emerged to tilt the balance 16 times. […]
A recent look through a Today in Baseball History database revealed this tidbit for December 17: The AL votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. The NL will do the same. There will be […]
While the baseball world waits to see if Ichiro Suzuki becomes just the second player to earn unanimous induction to the Hall of Fame on the 2025 BBWAA ballot, another crop of Hall hopefuls is ready to hear the results of the semi-regular, often renamed Classic Baseball Era Committee. […]
With the Hall of Fame ballot available for assigned voters to muse over, I’m reminded of the thought I had at this time last year: This process is getting harder. That isn’t even taking into account the lingering issue of whether to vote for players with the stigma of […]
We’re all guilty of overestimating the capabilities of young players, particularly after they deliver a strong rookie season. After all, if they already show they can more than handle their own over the first extended look at the sport’s highest level, then surely they’ll be even better with more experience, […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. Once upon a time, Bill James wrote this about Yogi Berra: “Yogi was the only catcher in baseball history who could catch […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. It’s rare to witness the perfect handoff from one immortal to another – the same club, the same position (or role), a short […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. On September 28, 2013, Andy Pettitte made the final start of his 18-year career. In one of those magical convergences where timing dances […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. For the rest of the calendar year, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. When the 2009 regular season had stopped adding box scores, 25-year-old Hanley Ramírez owned a Rookie of the Year Award, a pair of All-Star […]
