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Connections

A Dazzling Array

Roger Schlueter | Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Of the 30 current franchises in MLB’s galaxy, just five can claim a player who produced at least 250 home runs and 250 stolen bases for it:  the Astros, Brewers, Cubs, Yankees and Giants (who, unlike the others, have two such well dug-in performers).  Before reading further, any appetite to […]


Connections

Electric Company

Roger Schlueter | Monday, February 17, 2025

Recently, I was skipping through the Major League leaderboards on Baseball Reference, just passing the time while the coffee brewed on the stove, when an enormously cool occurrence jumped off the screen:  in 1955, the top 10 in position player bWAR was made up of 10 future Hall of Famers.  […]


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