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. In his 2,440-game career, Tony Gwynn safely reached base 3,955 times. Playing in 15 fewer games, Bobby Abreu is just ahead of the Hall […]
In the early efforts to build and grow a roster of baseball’s immortals, third basemen were notably absent from the Hall of Fame select. It took almost a decade to promote a hot corner magician into the hallowed ranks, a filter that in 1945 finally summoned 19th/20th century third sacker […]
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. Here’s a look at a pair of third basemen through their age-30 seasons. Notice the numerical similarities: Player A is George Brett: first-ballot […]
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. Félix Hernández is one of 256 pitchers within Baseball Reference’s database who tallied at least 2,500 innings in a career. He’s one […]
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 Tuesday, June 2, 1998, the Brewers hosted the Braves for the second contest in a three-game set. Thanks to the new alignment […]
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 July 21, 2004, and the Indians are hosting Mark Buehrle and the White Sox. Through six-and-a-half innings, Chicago has erupted […]
When he was all done menacing pitchers, Ty Cobb was the all-time leader in hits and runs, total bases, extra-base hits and times on base. A few years later, he would even get to claim pole position among the inaugural Hall of Fame class, with his 98.2% of the […]
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 […]