It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. Until the announcement of the new class, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. In terms of run production, few players – just a dozen – produced a more impactful imprint on a per game basis than Manny […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. Until the announcement of the new class, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. Currently, there are 275 men who have been elected to the Hall of Fame as a “Player” (in contrast to “Manager” or “Pioneer/Executive” or […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. Until the announcement of the new class, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. Years and years ago, when Baseball Reference hit the scene and afforded us much easier ways to design clubs of personal choice, I […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. Until the announcement of the new class, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. From July 8 through September 28, the 2008 Brewers played 73 games and won 41 of them, a .562 clip of success. The endpoints […]
It’s Hall of Fame consideration season. Until the announcement of the new class, Connections will be looking at some of the names on the 2025 ballot. Let’s make a lineup … C Thurman Munson 1B Don Mattingly 2B Lou Whitaker 3B Stan Hack SS Dave Concepción LF Roy […]
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. The accumulation of baseball history has produced 31 players who, through the conclusion of their age-34 seasons, had manned center field in at […]
Sometimes, when thinking back to my childhood in the early 1980s, I try to remember how a young baseball fan followed the sport’s top athletes in those pre-cable, pre-internet days. Magazines like Sports Illustrated kept us in the loop, along with NBC’s nationally televised Game of the Week and […]
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. By full decade, starting in 1900, here are the bWAR leaders among second basemen (min. 67% of game at second): Some pretty heady […]
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 […]