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e to share my love of baseball history with you over the years as been an absolute joy being able to grow that love with you has been just as much a joy i mean that s what this has all been about right i started the blog because i knew a lot about baseball and wanted to share and expand that love with a dedicated audience after 600 posts i can safely say that this mission has been accomplished i want to thank everyone who has read my blog posts whether you stopped after the first one or read all of them all of you mean so much to me for keeping up with my blogging journey i want to thank everyone who bought has read my book writing aa to zz was incredible and i m so happy to have donated as much as i did to charitable causes i want to thank my family and friends for all of their love and support from showing up to book signings to quizzing me on random baseball questions sharpening my knowledge daily i want to thank my mom and my sister for always having my back when it came to all of my bwm projects even though they re not big baseball fans and lastly i want to thank my dad my manager agent and editor who has been by my side for every single decision and has been my biggest inspiration through all of this all i can say to everyone who has joined me through the trials of baseball with matt is thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you so what s next well for the time being not much i m currently finishing my final year at binghamton university studying for my certified public accountant exams and will be starting at pricewaterhousecoopers in october full time i have a baseball podcast with my friends up at bing called baseball for breakfast which you can find on any podcast providing platform but that s pretty much it don t worry though i ll come back to baseball journalism at some point in the future it might be in a year or it might be in five but you ll hear from me soon so for the final time thanks for reading baseball with matt i hope you enjoyed it and that you ll never stop learning about all the buzz on what wuzz posted by matt nadel at 7 20 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 19 2021 baseball history s impact on interpreting today s game 3 19 21 hey baseball fans one of the reasons i enjoy baseball history so much is that it puts modern baseball into perspective i always preach that understanding the precedence or background of a current subject is paramount if you want to be an expert in it i don t consider myself an aficionado when it comes to talking about all 30 rosters of the mlb but i do know how to judge teams players managers and championships because of what i ve learned about baseball s past so i figured that for this post i would share some of the guiding principles i ve picked up that will help you understand modern baseball a little better i ll start with my calling card the saying that i repeat on most episodes of the podcast i do with some of my friends baseball for breakfast batting average wins mvps mathematically speaking it clearly doesn t ops on base plus slugging or ops a scaled version of ops which puts the average ops of the league at 100 are more indicative of most valuable player winners than any other stat in modern baseball and i m including war in that grouping but as history has shown if a player has a high higher than career average batting average in a given season and is in the mvp conversation chances are that they ll win it this isn t a proven science but it just goes to show how tough it is to hit a baseball especially in a modern age when batting averages are going down and homers and strikeouts are on the rise there are productive ways to get on base besides getting a hit yes and any hitter can get screwed over by a spectacular fielding play yes but batting average is the best raw stat that answers the question of whether or not the guy who s up can hit off the guy on the mound it s that primitive but it s also that simple onto the next topic i don t like the goat debate across any sport i think it s useless and doesn t provide any knowledge to a given sports fan other than the knowledge of when the analysts that are having the debate grew up but in baseball the goat debate is different because the goats in conversation all have what if factors for example what if babe ruth didn t start off as a pitcher what if ted williams didn t serve in the army what if barry bonds never took steroids because these what if factors exist perpetually you can t play the what if game in baseball it s unfair no matter which hypotheticals you look at and which ones you choose to ignore and this mantra isn t just for the goat debate it works for a lot of topics look at the pandemic shortened 2020 season there were a lot of stars that had down years is it justifiable to use the 60 game season as an excuse for their slumps no because although it s fair to say that they could ve rebounded had they played 162 games we ll never know so there s no point in bringing up the suggestion and finally winning isn t everything i definitely sound like an entitled yankees fan with just that sentence but hear me out at the end of the day the small moments of a season have a lot more magnitude and fondness attached to them than the climactic finishes because only one team gets the ultimate finish the same thing goes for the players the announcers the ballpark dimensions and even the dumb songs stadiums play for certain outcomes championships feel great but i m certainly not a baseball fan because the yankees have 27 rings sorry i had to that would be petty and disingenuous of me as a fan to say i love baseball because i get to find my heroes through it i get to learn from it and i get to make connections with it it s a distractor from the real world sure but i like to think that all pastimes have some subliminal messaging and to me reading between the foul lines indicates a lot more about baseball s impact on any generation than watching your squad lift the commissioner s trophy does thanks for reading this post and i hope you enjoyed it check back soon for more of all the buzz on what wuzz posted by matt nadel at 11 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 5 2021 5 bold predictions for the 2021 mlb regular season 3 5 21 hey baseball fans we are officially in spring training which means the 2021 regular season is less than a month away because of this as is customary on baseball with matt it s time for some of my bold predictions for the upcoming campaign five of them to be exact although they have catchy sounding nicknames belli and yelli will not escape their season long slumps at the plate from last year yes cody bellinger and christian yelich have won two of the last three nl mvps but they both had really terrible seasons last year i m here to tell you that these bad seasons are here to stay at least for 2021 bellinger s golf like baseball bat swing has always been fluky to me and yelich s eruption of power since he arrived at milwaukee was never going to stick around he was a contact hitter with the marlins and only exhibited enough power and potential to barely crack 20 homers a season i m not saying these slumps will end forever but let s just say that i wasn t surprised to see them both struggle in the shortened 2020 season now while these two sluggers will not rebound luke voit will lead the league in homers again i feel like the baseball media didn t talk enough about voit s crazy season as much as they should ve and still forget to mention that he led the league in dingers ever since he got traded to the yankees from st louis he s shown immense gravitas with the bat sending balls flying at an impressive pace i guess the main reason he gets buried in the yankee talk is because of the stars in the rest of the lineup but you heard it here first nuke voit will be back and better than ever i m just going to come out and say this if aaron nola wins the cy young the phillies win the nl east although this is not the most competitive division in baseball the national league east is a bit of a toss up the braves will probably win it in my opinion but the mets nationals and marlins have solid rosters too and then there are the phillies one of the most underachieving teams in baseball that had a historically bad bullpen in 2020 however they do have a bona fide ace in aaron nola and if he can prove all the doubters wrong philadelphia s pitching will catch up to its hitting propelling the phils to the top of the east for the first time since 2011 let s stick in the nl and talk about batting average one of my favorite statistics in baseball who will win the nl batting title donovan solano of course solano is a veteran second baseman on the giants who sneakily batted 326 last year and 330 in 2019 sure he s 33 and sure those impressive marks might be as fluky as bellinger and yelich but this is a real shot in the dark and if it sticks i ll be over the moon and finally the world series i end up being close with this pick every year but in the sense that the matchup usually ends up in the playoffs this year i m hoping for a different outcome but we ll have to see anyway without further delay my 2021 world series picks are the padres and white sox why they are the two youngest and most exciting teams in baseball with great rosters and even greater swagger they were wild card teams this past year but with their amazing players they could easily meet up in late october for a chance at the commissioner s trophy do you agree with my bold predictions let me know in the comments section below thanks for reading this post and i hope you enjoyed it check back soon for more of all the buzz on what wuzz posted by matt nadel at 1 52 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 21 2021 the case for alan trammell 2 21 21 hey baseball fans it s my birthday which means it s time to talk about my hall of fame birthday buddy alan trammell i ve done a post about trammell pretty much every february 21st since i started my blog in 2012 so this birthday will be no different today rather than just go over his career for the 1 000th time let s take a deep dive into why he deserves to be a hall of famer based on the three categories i use to judge hall of fame candidacy longevity consistency and intangibles trammell did play for a while i ll give him that but that s not what longevity actually means in this case how close was trammell to the hall of fame benchmarks we have come to know and love well the short answer is not at all at least in the offensive department 2 365 career hits isn t close to the 3 000 hit threshold especially considering he played 20 years the cumulative stat that he has actually met is defensive wins above replacement dwar is a newer stat in the hall of fame conversation considering fielding gurus like andruw jones and scott rolen only just made the ballot but it s an important stat nonetheless you don t have to be good at everything to be a hall of famer so even though trammell s cumulative hits aren t there his 22 7 career dwar which is 33rd on the all time list at a premier position like shortstop certainly puts him in the conversation not to mention his 70 7 career total war is in the ballpark of that of derek jeter the consistency category marginally helps trammell more than the longevity category even though it s less important a 285 lifetime batting average and 152 hits a season during his prime years from 1980 1990 make it known that trammell was a consistent hitter but other than those stats why is trammell a hall of famer we can talk about his six all star games three silver sluggers or four gold gloves but that s not enough again i ask the question why is this guy a hall of famer the answer lies in the piece i ve left out of this post so far on purpose he s a legend in the detroit tigers organization sure he s one of their worst managers ever but the lifelong tiger meant more to the city of detroit than a lot of baseball fans realize you can t tell the history of the detroit tigers without mentioning the 1984 world series mvp although the intangibles category is the least important criteria for me for hall of fame candidates it matters the most in trammell s case thanks for reading this post and i hope you enjoyed it check back soon for more of all the buzz on what wuzz posted by matt nadel at 11 54 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 9 2021 a preview of the 2022 baseball hall of fame ballot 2 9 21 hey baseball fans the 2021 hall of fame inductees have been released and to be honest i m not surprised that no one got in schilling s stock fell a lot after the capitol riots and i expected the steroid users not to move up that much there were a couple of big risers but again it makes sense that the 2021 hall of fame induction ceremony will only feature the 2020 inductees but who s on the ballot next year there are several very interesting first timers on next year s ballot namely alex rodriguez and david ortiz both have steroid scandals associated with their careers but ortiz s has been called into question by reliable sources a la commissioner manfred and rodriguez has seen a personal resurgence post retirement mostly from television appearances it will be interesting to see how the voters view these two mega stars especially compared to barry bonds and roger clemens who will be on the bbwaa ballot for the last time in 2022 other notable first timers who i think could see some significant voting percentages include jimmy rollins mark teixeira a j pierzynski ryan howard joe nathan prince fielder and jonathan papelbon out of this group i m really rooting for the relievers nathan and papelbon as we move deeper into the age of the bullpen relievers of all kinds will start getting the recognition they deserve i was a massive advocate for trevor hoffman s induction and just talked about billy wagner so to say that i like bullpens a little would be a gross understatement i think that a j pierzynski actually has the best shot out of the hitters that i just named because he was a catcher so his numbers should be taken with more than just one grain of salt 2 000 hits and a 280 batting average as a catcher are impressive stats i m not sure if he has the recognition to get into the hall via the bbwaa but we ll have to wait and see and then besides the first timers who won t see more than 10 we have the guys who have been on the ballot for a while todd helton and scott rolen saw huge jumps during the 2021 voting omar vizquel s number went down because of his ongoing domestic abuse scandal and jeff kent only rose a little it seems that helton and rolen have the momentum to make it in before their times on the ballot are up and both of them have plenty of time to do so but it won t ...