It has been a wild end of the month in the EFL, with several trades being made already and perhaps a few more to come in the next...
Archive - August 2020
A Dream Twice Deferred is a Dream Denied (trivial version)
Having abandoned the cares of the 2020 season, I found joy this weekend in plotting to be the first last-place team to win the...
Goodbye, Luis
Trea Turner hit safely in 8 straight trips to the plate starting with his double in the 8th inning Friday evening. He went 5 for...
Fun Times For All Teams!
Another day down in the EFL, and things at the top continue to compress just a little. The month of September should prove to be...
42
I hope you got a chance to watch some baseball last night. The number 42 was ubiquitous and there were some very fine pieces...
The Grandstand is a Grand Waste
In 2004, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig had an idea. He wanted to honor the first black man to play in on a Major League team. And so...
Unprecedented, even for 2020
I don’t know how to introduce today’s update considering the unprecedented day yesterday — unprecedented even...
Vogelsong Awards in the EFL (or, another way to acknowledge the great RP in our league who are often overlooked)
Baseball Prospectus writes an annual every year, detailing to the projections for most MLB players. But every year there are...
Unbearable Plums
We have a plum tree in our back yard. (Also a pear tree, but as it has never had a partridge in it, the pear tree is...
16 in Quarantine
On this day at 9am, 16 years ago, my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world. This morning, at 9am, that same 16 year...