BaseballTwit: Blog posts and Twitter tweets about baseball stats and history by Adam Darowski (more)
Today I found out via Baseball Musings that former Yankee slugger Johnny Blanchard passed away. My thoughts go out to his family. Even though he was a reserve player a good fifty years ago, I have always had an interest in Blanchard. It’s a bit of a long story. (more…)
Now that Baseball Projection has released their Historical WAR stats, I feel like I need to play with it as much as I can. Since I’m pretty obsessed with all things Hall of Fame, I figured I’d take a look at the hitters on last year’s Hall of Fame ballot and compare their WAR (wins above replacement) to their voting percentage. (more…)
Andy, a writer for the fantastic Stat of the Day blog at Baseball-Reference.com, recently published a post featuring the “All Andy Team”. He had a hard time fielding a team of former Major Leaguers that he shared a first name with. I was a bit surprised by the lack of Andys. I figured I’d see what an All Adam Team would look like. (more…)
The fantastic site Beyond the Box Score published an article yesterday showing how long it would take for current stars to match the production Barry Bonds achieved in his career. (Long story short, only A-Rod and Pujols have any chance.) (more…)
On my personal blog, I recently re-published an article about why I’m into sim baseball and not fantasy baseball. In the article, I make my main points for why sim baseball is so much better, but also introduce you to the biggest reason why.
Jack Gonzalez (and guys like him). (more…)