Saturday, December 19, 2020

Triple Crown Trio (a great baseball card newly created based on the 1968 Topps set)

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In 1968, there were three active Triple Crown winners. That is the last year there were that many. I suggested this idea to Jason K. Woodbur...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Annual Games Behind For The St. Louis Browns, 1901-43

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They finally won a pennant in 1944. Prior to that, they had only one season when they finished less than 5 GB (1922, 1 GB). There were only ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Temperatures in some major league cities at about 8 pm central time

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Boston 50 (with a low tonight of 44 & rain starting in 78 minutes-a game might still be going)  New York 56 (low will be 52 with a littl...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

So far in the series, Dodgers lead Rays in OPS .832-.631. You should be watching since the Dodgers might be the closest thing to the 27 Yankees you will ever see and wouldn't you want to watch the 27 Yanks in color and HD?

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The Dodgers finished with a .194 OPS differential (.821 - .627). Only the 1927 Yankees were higher since 1901 (.201 using BB Ref, .196 using...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Dodgers, Rays and OPS differentials (A Rays victory would be historic upset)

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LA season OPS differential) .194 (.821 - .627) only 27 Yanks better Rays season OPS differential) .057 (.753 - .696) Dodgers have .137 edge...
Monday, September 28, 2020

Update on Juan Soto's Great Career Start

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This is an update on the last post. Since the season is over I thought it would be a good time to do this. I used Stathead to find the OPS+ ...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Juan Soto's OPS+ through ge 21 puts him outstanding company

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OPS+ leaders thru age 21 1000+ PAs. Juan Soto in great company. Of course, this year is not over yet. But still pretty impressive Mike Trou...