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Rod Caborn releases 2022 OAPBA Yearbook “just in time for Christmas”
As Rod says, “everything you wanted to know about the ’22 season”. The Orlando APBA Association season, that is. Rod is the premiere documentarian for OAPBA and one look at his recap of the 22 season will tell you what you want to know. Of course, this was a bittersweet…
Monster Card Monday: 2022 Paul Goldschmidt
I wrote about 2022 AL MVP Aaron Judge last Monday so I guess I’ll pen an article about NL honoree Paul Goldschmidt this week. While I’m not so blown away by Goldy’s card as I was Judge’s, I wouldn’t bench him, either. Goldschmidt played a full 151 games for the…
Pitching Grade Challenge winners: Bernard Servais and Craig Robinson perfect!
(This time for real) After recalculating the Pitching Grade Challenge results after the slight mishap in communication (read about it here), we now have two winners of the Challenge! Join me in congratulating Bernard Servais and Craig Robinson! They both correctly predicted all twenty pitchers in the Challenge! It was…
The Designated Hitter and APBA
Now that the 2022 Pitching Grade Challenge is wrapping up, I can start looking at the cards in APBA GO with more fervor. This is one of the first cards I checked out. Why? Well, it helped answer a question I have been wondering about. The question is one our…
2022 Pitching Grade Challenge: a mea culpa
This is what I’m calling the “Adam Wainwright Situation”. In the process of determining the winner of the Pitching Grade Challenge, I receive a list of the grades of the twenty pitchers involved. There was a difference in grade with one of the pitchers (Wainwright) in the list provided to…
Breaking down the 2022 Pitching Grade Challenge (with the 20 grades!)
Once again, I want to congratulate James Morgan who scored 20 out of 20 in the 2022 Pitching Grade Challenge. I heard on Facebook that James just earned his league’s title so perhaps his Challenge win is more than just coincidence. He does have some APBA smarts. Today, I thought…
Monster Card Monday: 2022 Aaron Judge (yes, the official one!)
Big news! The official 2022 season has been uploaded on APBA GO tonight! So, here is a sneak peek. I knew 2022 MVP Aaron Judge’s card was going to be one of the first I was going to check out. He didn’t disappoint. In 157 games, Judge hit a historic…
Enjoy Walter Hunt’s 1943 replay narrative
Walter Hunt’s recap of his 1943 draft and replay will give us something to do while we’re patiently waiting for the 2022 APBA season to be released. I posted about Walter’s narrative of his 1944 replay earlier this year. In his words, this is how he approaches his project: I…
2022 Pitching Grade Challenge: Tom’s ballot
The 2022 APBA Blog Pitching Grade Challenge voting booths are now closed. Thanks to you all, we have surpassed last year’s record of participants. This year, 245 submitted ballots, three more than last year. Thanks everyone! Each year that the APBA Blog has conducted the Pitching Grade Challenge, I submit…