One of our primal instincts is the desire for tasks to be completed. It’s aggravating to see something partially completed, but with nobody making a move to progress it toward completion. That’s especially true when something is almost done, but not quite. I think this is what drives people to collect things. A collector’s ultimate […]

The 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame ballots were just released yesterday. I’m not a member of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, so I can’t vote, but it’s always fun to speculate what I would do if I could. I don’t believe in withholding the Hall of Fame from players suspected of taking steroids, or […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series Champions in 2020. This weird, shortened season is now over. That means it’s time for me to pick five new Heroes of Baseball. As I’ve done every year for many years now, I pored over the stats and selected five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. […]

Each winter, I pore over the stats and select five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. I look mainly at All-Star Game appearances and Wins Above Replacement—relative to peers—to make my choices. A player that I select to be a Hero of Baseball is an active player who is about halfway into an […]

In the baseball card business, big money often goes to unproven prospects simply because of their seemingly boundless potential.  However, collectors often overlook the players who have already proven their worth over a long career and have already entered the Hall of Fame.  These are players who will never be forgotten by baseball.  They have […]

I completed an analysis of every major league baseball player ever.  With the All-Star Game still fresh in our minds, I’ll save my methodology for a later post and give the results right now.  Here is what the All-Time Baseball All-Star team looks like: Starting Lineup *Note: I believe Tris Speaker and Ty Cobb to […]

Batting average, earned run average, on-base percentage, strikeouts per nine innings, wins above replacement, walks plus hits per innings pitched… Baseball is the sport for statisticians. Statisticians design each new measure of baseball prowess to prove that good players are actually good, and it wasn’t all just luck. The holy grail for baseball stats has […]

Like in every game, there is a lot of luck involved in baseball.  Skill is not the only determinant of whether you win or lose. One thing that has always fascinated me is the relationship between Earned Run Average (ERA) and winning.  The ERA is a pitching stat calculated by dividing the number of earned […]