Prospect Preview: 1974
For someone like me, who grew up with the baseball played in the late-’80s and early-’90s (from Gibson’s home run to the strike-year and on), looking back through preview guides from the 1970s can seem...
View ArticleHistoric Hot Stove: Greg Vaughn
This past weekend marked the anniversary of a major day in Tampa Bay Devil Rays history and, sadly, the world seemed to let it pass without mention. I can’t say why that is exactly, but I can guess...
View ArticleTop Talent-Producing Universities
Well, it’s a snow day here in Milwaukee – twelve inches of snow in the overnight and early-morning hours will do that – so I didn’t do much this morning except sleep in, watch 30 Rock, and goof off on...
View ArticleTop Talent-Producing Universities (Revisited)
Thanks to some great discussion over at Baseball Think Factory, I felt it was important to take at least one more look at my post on Top Talent-Producing Universities. As I said in that post, I was...
View ArticleProspect Preview: 1996
It’s pretty hard to believe sometimes, but with the 2009 season upcoming that means that the 1996 season was 13 years ago. Thirteen. To put that into perspective, by the time the 1991 season rolled...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas
For people who know me well, there are few things that are more obvious to them about me and my personality than my love for the comic strip Peanuts and my kinship with Charlie Brown himself. I realize...
View ArticleThrough the Years: Jim Rice
Was Jim Rice truly “feared” in his time? In recent years, it has become very much in vogue to discuss the merits of Jim Rice’s candidacy for the Hall of Fame. Similar to Jack Morris, proponents of...
View ArticleA few follow-up notes…
Playing around on the internet over this long holiday weekend, I came across a few items that were related to past posts here on wezen-ball. It seemed like a good idea to share these pieces in a...
View ArticleThe Black-Ink Test
Updated: While working on the Gray-Ink Test numbers, I noticed that the Innings Pitched and Games Played leaderboards weren’t quite accurate, and that this caused some of the Black-Ink Test scores to...
View ArticleProspect Preview: 1991
It was eighteen years ago that baseball officially entered the decade of the ’90s. The A’s were fresh off their third consecutive trip to the World Series (and a Series sweep by the hands of the Reds),...
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