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 […]
On October 27, 1991, before more than 55,000 fans in the Metrodome and another 50-plus million enthralled by their televisions, Jack Morris accomplished the unprecedented: an extra-inning shutout in a winner-take-all World Series game. As difficult as it would have been to predict such an exceptional and striking showcase, it’s […]
Later today, before Jack Flaherty delivers the first salvo of the 120th Fall Classic, presumptive NL MVP Shohei Ohtani will be a central focus during one set of lineup introductions. AL MVP favorite Aaron Judge will absorb the same sort of attention in the other roll call. Before a single […]
Fernando Valenzuela made only one World Series appearance in his career: a complete game in Game 3 of the 1981 World Series to, for all intents and purposes, save the Dodgers season. It’s fitting that the left-hander’s rescue effort came in front of the Dodger Stadium crowd in 1981, for […]
See Here for Part 1 On the morning of October 3, 2000, the set of batters who could proclaim they ended their postseason careers with a .300/.400/.500 line (“ahem,” they might cough, “with at least 100 plate appearances”) numbered six: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Gene Woodling, […]
The 2024 postseason has been a canvas calling to the artists who hold a bat in their hands, an invitation to paint thunderous and striking images of what can occur when a pitch nears the plate. The World Series alone will feature seven hitters coming off a 1.000-OPS line drawn […]