A Game for the Ages and a Season to Remember In a season already filled with remarkable achievements, Shohei Ohtani etched his name into the…
Category: MLB Players
Happy Father’s Day to baseball.
By: S. Christopher Michaels I don’t see my dad nearly as often as I would like. But I hear from him almost every day when…
Did StatCast change the game or the ball: When the (sabermetric) data is mightier than the sword.
By: S. Christopher Michaels “Chris Bassitt is hardly alone in his outcry that something has changed regarding the tool of his tradecraft. Questions were asked…
Effective pitching is knowing when to accept the challenge: When the (sabermetric) data is mightier than the sword.
By S. Christopher Michaels As the title suggests, effective pitching in Major League Baseball is knowing when to accept the challenge with an opposing batter.…
Saber rattling: My over-the-top attempt to make you fall in love with sabermetrics.
Welcome to another edition of Saber rattling. This isn’t late. I promise… In my last article, I mentioned writing about ‘that annual pitching award’ during…
Saber rattling: My weekly, over the top, attempt to make you fall in love with sabermetrics.
Welcome to another edition of Saber rattling. I still haven’t been fired, so let’s dig in! Last week I introduced the idea that statistics is…
World Series Game 7 Pitchers Who Threw A Complete Game
Samuel Rodriguez asked, in our Facebook Baseball Almanac Group, “How many pitchers threw a complete game in the seventh game of the World Series? Please…
Luis Tiant Should be in the Hall of Fame: In the Shadows of Greatness
Why El Tiante Should be in the Hall… The Hall of Fame voting process is probably one of the more mysterious processes in modern sports…
Johnny Bench Statue Dedication Day
Johnny Bench was honored with a statue at the Southwestern Bell Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Here is an incredible word-for-word transcript of that July…
Chipper Jones – Player Profile
Chipper Jones is a professional baseball player that was born in 1972 in DeLand, Florida. Jones broke into the Major Leagues at the age of…