Steve Stein emailed me to tell me that the Transcontinental Baseball League have released the names of this year’s TBL Hall of Fame induction. It’s quite a worthy class. The Transcontinental Baseball League has announced its class of 2013. Greg Maddux (league best 403 Wins, 5323 IP) was selected on…
It was about time I got Joltin’ Joe in on Monday. Taking a look at DiMaggio’s stats, I was impressed by one thing. Every year he played in the majors, he was on the All-Star team and all but one year, he was in the running for the MVP (the…
This will probably be my last post until after the Christmas holiday. I actually have a Monster Card Monday article that is queued up and will post automatically on Christmas Eve (we’ll see if that works). In the spirit of Christmas, I won’t be a Scrooge and post a Terrible…
Just a few more calculations I did. This will probably be the last of my ‘By the numbers’ series. Here are the rest: Pitching Defense Offense Fastest players according to Master Game speed ratings… Player Speed Emilio Bonifacio 20 Pedro Ciriaco 19 Rajai Davis 19 Tony Campana 19 Eric Young…
David Ortiz Double ones and five EBH numbers This the third in my ‘By the numbers’ series. First I crunched the disk’s numbers on the 2012 pitchers. Then I took to the defense ratings. Tonight, I’m looking at the best (and worst) of the 2012 offense. I’ll tell you which…
Yadier Molina: Tops in fielding (C-9) and Th rating (+6) Yesterday, I posted the first in this ‘By the numbers’ series on Pitching. Today, it’s all about the fielding. I’m just going to break down the fielding ratings by position. I’m going to do it a little different this year. …
2012’s Top Graded Pitcher Fernando Rodney with a MG Grade of 28 Each year, when the APBA baseball disk comes out, I’ve done a quick and dirty analysis and breakdown of the season set. I’ve broken down the pitching, defense, and some of the offensive particulars. I crunch the numbers…
Bill Bergen may not have been the worst hitter in pro baseball history. A cursory look at his stats might tell you a different story. Bergen played for eleven years in the National League (1901-1911) and had a career batting average of .170. Only once in 1903, he managed to…
When I read Jim’s email about the Odon APBA League, I was pleasantly surprised to see that they were based only a few hours away from me. From Odon, Indiana, Jim says he’s a Purdue grad so I immediately had a Big Ten bond with him (Go Illini!). Anyway, the…
With the APBA-Between the Lines disk chats going on, I’ve been looking forward to next year’s season more and more. Indeed, my Thunderchickens look to improve in the pitching department with four Bs and two Cs in the rotation and two Bs in the pen (assuming Chris Perez is one,…