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hael hoban mickey rowley mike durell mike lynch greg bouris monte cely nick penny nick waddell norm coleman numberfire com ootp developments paul gotham paul heinz paul hirsch paul ivice peter golenbock peter kropf ric latarski rob bertrand rob fitts ron juckett ronnie foreman ross uitts sam miller scott ferkovich scott simkus seamheads sean grybos shelly riley stephanie paluch steve lenox ted leavengood terry keshner thad mumau tim mccoy tom maurino tom ruane tom stone tony lastoria links the baseball gauge posts comments top stories manager jimmy dykes overestimated 1954 orioles august 17 2026 by barry sparks leave a comment orioles manager jimmy dykes as baltimore awaited the arrival of the hapless st louis browns franchise in november 1953 newly named orioles general manager arthur ehlers fired browns manager marty marion and replaced him with former philadelphia athletics manager jimmy dykes dykes 57 had managed in the major leagues for 14 years and had played 22 years mostly as a third baseman with the philadelphia a s he was part of connie mack s powerful teams in 1929 1931 appearing in three world series ehlers fired marion after meeting with him and declaring that the skipper showed read the full story general fiery manager was obsessed with winning august 17 2026 by barry sparks leave a comment it s been 40 years since earl weaver managed a major league baseball team but the fiery genius left an indelible impression upon the game the players and the fans author john w miller refers to weaver as the last manager because data analysis and free agency have shifted control to general managers and the players managers are no longer the dominant forces as they were in weaver s day weaver was obsessed with finding the winning edge bringing out the best in each player and tweaking baseball to see where it would go his intensity he said his epitaph should read here read the full story features gold glove golden memories so long brooks september 27 2023 by austin gisriel leave a comment i have dreaded this day since i was old enough to truly appreciate the perspective that mortality brings i just heard that brooks robinson has died it must be true because something is gone inside of me maybe the last vestiges of childhood innocence that have hung around for these 66 years maybe the ultimate rejection of that fantasy that somehow life will go back to the way it was and once again we ll be in the early morning of our hopes and dreams yes this baseball player meant that much to a generation of baltimoreans a ballplayer about whom as gordon beard a former ap sports writer read the full story hall of fame war and win shares and charlie blackmon march 23 2019 by michael hoban 1 comment it appears that war in attempting to assign a single number to represent a player s season has a problem with fielding and the problem is not so much with the player s defensive war score but rather with trying to combine this score with the offensive war a very good or very poor fielding score appears to seriously distort the player s total war score as an example matt chapman had a great fielding season at third base in 2018 and his situation illustrates quite well why war does a relatively good job of evaluating his offensive value owar and his defensive value dwar read the full story minors principal park despite city s size ballpark has big impact june 30 2018 by kevin johnson leave a comment minor league baseball a des moines iowa staple at same location since 1947 submitted by steve dunn located at the confluence of the des moines and raccoon rivers in des moines iowa principal park and its two predecessors have hosted professional baseball since friday june 20 1947 one of the more unique games in minor league history was played nearly 61 years later at principal park on saturday june 14 2008 with widespread flooding in central iowa the iowa cubs and nashville sounds played a triple a pacific coast league game that drew an official attendance of zero the only other read the full story general fiery manager was obsessed with winning august 17 2026 by barry sparks it s been 40 years since earl weaver managed a major league baseball team but the fiery genius left an indelible impression upon the game the players and the fans author john w miller refers to weaver as the last manager because data analysis and free agency have shifted control to general managers and the players managers are no longer the read more of this article heavenly hats and not enough homers august 12 2026 by terry keshner peace and defeat be with you the chicago white sox gave out 40 000 mitres the fancy hat that the pope wears to fans at tuesday night s game in honor of pope leo xiv a chicago area native white sox fan and devout headgear wearer what s funnier than seeing 40 000 people wearing pointy pope hats with a white sox logo at a baseball game read more of this article the three hour summer june 25 2026 by terry keshner june 25 2026the game it rained foreverwe were in a hurry to make the first pitch for the white sox game against the cleveland guardians on chicago s south side on wednesday afternoon excited to see our resurgent sox in a battle with their top challengers for first place in the american league central division the sox had taken the first two games read more of this article legends of the turnaround june 10 2026 by terry keshner june 10 2026the white sox are in first place for the first time in 4 000 years with their 2 1 victory over the atlanta braves on the south side of chicago on wednesday night and following an 8 4 afternoon loss by the cleveland guardians to the new york yankees the chicago white sox are in first place for the first time since abner doubleday was experiencing read more of this article nobody expects the unassisted triple play june 5 2026 by frank jackson cleveland second baseman bill wambsganss according to baseball almanac there have been 740 triple plays in baseball history from 1876 through 2025 that s an average of 4 93 let s round that off to 5 per year or less than once a month there are 2 430 mlb regular season games played each year or roughly 405 per month so no matter how read more of this article an in depth look at a one eyed major leaguer may 3 2026 by frank jackson mlb commissioner kenesaw mountain landis much has been written about baseball during world war ii when the military draft stripped rosters of all able bodied men while most minor leagues suspended operations the major leagues soldiered on so to speak thanks to president franklin roosevelt s famous green light letter to baseball commissioner read more of this article the glory of the wind april 30 2026 by terry keshner april 29 2026 the glory of the wind white sox 3 angels 2 nougat and vodka might be the two most upholding vices ever created by polite society but weekday baseball has a seat on that splendor train as well we ate no nougat and drank no vodka on wednesday afternoon at guaranteed rate field and perhaps that s for the best because our senses might read more of this article the most sickening event in the history of this universe or any other march 27 2026 by terry keshner the chicago white sox opened the 2026 season by making the short drive north to milwaukee to face the brewers but left their hitting pitching dignity humor and religion behind getting obliterated 14 2 in a contest so ugly it made you admire the blind and cry with the dead the sox actually got off to a tremendous start as chase meidroth became read more of this article lucky lohrke or low key lohrke march 26 2026 by frank jackson jack lohrke played for the new york giants from 1947 1951 whenever you read about a disastrous plane crash there is inevitably a sidebar pertaining to one or more passengers who had reservations but missed the flight for one reason or another or there is the occasional passenger who somehow survived the disaster last summer we had the example read more of this article ducks on the pond goose eggs on the scoreboard february 22 2026 by frank jackson cubs hurler larry cheney tossed a 14 hit shutout against the giants in 1913 theoretically a pitcher could give up three hits every inning and maintain a shutout a 27 hit shutout is conceivable but virtually impossible of course in an era when a complete game is a rarity musing about complete game shutouts is an exercise in nostalgia if the read more of this article more posts from general features gold glove golden memories so long brooks by austin gisriel i have dreaded this day since i was old enough to truly appreciate the perspective cheap and ugly in the capitol by ted leavengood calvin griffith ap photo john duricka upon googling cheapest baseball making the game fun again by ted leavengood as the season loomed large in the late winter months a friend who had prepared a stories over stats by austin gisriel while on our way to breakfast saturday morning the subject of former oriole now aaron judge in a nationals uniform by ted leavengood no i did not predict josh bell going to san diego but who did in my defense just more posts from features hall of fame war and win shares and charlie blackmon by michael hoban it appears that war in attempting to assign a single number to represent a player s the bbwaa report card for the 21st century by michael hoban the caws career gauge ccg has ranked all of the outstanding players of the modern war and jaws exaggerating fielding value by michael hoban in an earlier post i pointed out that matt chapman s war value for 2018 8 2 a problem with war defensive value by michael hoban my primary research interest has always been determining which players had the best the four caws hof benchmarks for pitchers by michael hoban in a previous post re koufax and kershaw i mentioned one of the benchmarks created more posts from hall of fame minors principal park despite city s size ballpark has big impact by kevin johnson minor league baseball 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