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 […]
This century, 89 rookies have splashed onto the scene with at least 50 extra-base hits. From the start, Orioles newcomers were conspicuously absent from the assemblage, failing to post a representative until Trey Mancini delivered 54 in 2017. This decade, Baltimore’s beginners have been more of a wave rather than […]