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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]