A belated ‘welcome back’ to all you prediction and projection enthusiasts! BttP’s seventh annual review of preseason prognostications is finally here, a delay which can only be blamed on me. All of you who thought… Read more »
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I’m not going to lie. It has been a weird season. A global pandemic, sixty games, multiple COVID-19 disruptions, rule changes so hastily made that Calvin and Hobbes would be proud…you get the picture. Normally,… Read more »
In 1991, the world witnessed the debut of a super-fast, super cool dude with an attitude to match. The beginning of his career was brilliant, and while the high point was early and quick, his… Read more »
2019 was supposed to be a big year for the Phillies. They acquired Bryce Harper, the biggest free agent of the offseason. They further solidified an already-promising lineup with other new faces, including an aging… Read more »
When it comes to Nippon Professional Baseball, the most persistent topic of discussion tends to be the names of the players who are going to try and make the jump to Major League Baseball. There… Read more »
Many months back I sent an email to my editors here at Banished to the Pen pitching the idea of relegation being brought to Major League Baseball. They were receptive, but then in my research,… Read more »
Scrolling through the all-time best seasons in sWAR found on the Seamheads Negro League Database, the name Dick Lundy doesn’t appear until the 40s, and in total he only makes the one appearance. It’s not… Read more »
Presented here is a virtual baseball card series that aims to serve as an introduction to sabermetrics: Why is on base percentage better than batting average? What’s a good OPS? What does wRC+ mean? Most… Read more »
The former Mudville nine faced likely loss upon that date, (they’d moved from Mudville years before — it was best to relocate). With Cooney-Barrows out one-two, in the ninth, down five to three, a tiny… Read more »
The Baseball Project is a baseball-themed rock super-group, made up of veteran musicians Scott McCaughey, Steve Wynn, Laura Pitmon, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills. The band started when McCaughey and Wynn met and discovered a… Read more »
Writing about the dark winter of baseball’s offseason, Bob Dylan explained: Too much of nothing can make a man feel ill at ease. One man’s temper might rise while another man’s temper might freeze. In… Read more »
Baseball is a game of history. History frames much of what we know and think about the game. Baseball leagues the world over are all about creating new history and establishing a legacy that will… Read more »
I think that all of us, myself definitely included, fall in love with dominant seasons from a pitcher. Or rather, I should say, we fall in love with a given pitcher thanks to their dominance…. Read more »
One of my favorite things to do is to spend a lazy day looking up stats. More often than not my resource of choice is Baseball Reference. The Play Index feature makes it so easy… Read more »
Orioles fans have been through a lot in 2018. They were only the third team in American League history to lose at least 115 games in a season. Manny Machado, Zach Britton, Kevin Gausman and… Read more »
Angels the magic kingdom: Trout, Ohtani, and Kershaw thirty miles south Astros bury our chances for signing Kershaw under centerfield, Tal’s Hill Cardinals best fans in baseball plus best pitcher in baseball under the same… Read more »
The 2018 season is over. On Sunday, the Boston Red Sox put the final touches on what was one of the most dominant seasons of the modern era and effortlessly cruised through the playoffs in… Read more »
The Oakland A’s have been doing a lot of remarkable things. Whether it’s Matt Chapman‘s otherworldly defensive play at third base, Khris Davis leading the league in home runs, or the phenomenal production of a… Read more »
Andrew Benintendi has hit at every possible opportunity. He batted .564 as a high school senior in Ohio, becoming the National High School Player of the Year. After a respectable but unspectacular start to his… Read more »
Herein lies the second installment in which I tried to find the one batter and pitcher who had a slash line which best matched the all-time numbers for the team they played for. (Read Part… Read more »
A week or two ago, one of the Cubs’ beat writers – I don’t remember who – noted on Twitter that Ian Happ had just hit the franchise’s 14,000th home run. Having never really considered… Read more »
I’d like to preface this by saying this is not my idea. It’s Ben Lindbergh’s idea. Ben, ever the scholarly gentleman, suggested that an avenue for exploring the debut appearances of major league players would… Read more »
For reasons having nothing to do with baseball and everything to do with local politics in a county adjacent to the one in which I reside, this annual feature is appearing far too late to… Read more »
Are you an MVP at MLB trivia? A Jedi Master of Star Wars minutiae? Test your knowledge! Challenge your friends! With the excitement surrounding the upcoming Han Solo movie as well as the 2018 MLB… Read more »
In 2016, baseball set a new record low for intentional walks per game. That broke the previous record, set in 2015, which had broken the previous record, set in 2014, which had…you get the idea…. Read more »
In the 1970s, Richard Davidson, then a graduate student at Harvard, and now a professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, sought to learn more about emotion. Specifically, he wanted to know… Read more »
Sometimes it’s an exit you see coming as the July 31 trade deadline approaches. Other times, the news comes out of nowhere in the middle of the off-season. During this calm before the storm of… Read more »
Every player who makes the major leagues is good at baseball. Sometimes, that’s not immediately apparent because of the presence of other players. Take Barry Bonds, for instance. Whatever else you might think about Bonds,… Read more »
It’s that time of year where we gather around the table with family and friends, dig in to the savory and sweet, and eat until the earlier to occur of nausea or tryptophan coma. But… Read more »
“Movember” is a unique annual event that runs each November, where mustaches are grown in an effort to raise awareness of various men’s health issues, physical and mental. Consider taking a moment today to donate… Read more »
