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Takeaways from this year’s Hall of Fame voting

Tom Gibbons
Jan 23, 2020
Hall of Fame, Headlines
1. Schilling is not a slam dunk to get in Curt Schilling reached the 70% mark in the BBWAA voting announced Jan. 21. Historical voting patterns indicate that if you get that close and have time left on the bal...

BBWAA’s Morality Clause Only Applies to Steroid Users, Apparently

Tom Dorsa
Jan 17, 2019
Baseball History, Offseason, Opinions & Predictions
"Voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played." Hmm, pretty stern words from the rules for...

Jose Ramirez’s Rankings Are Still TBD, but His Awesomeness Isn’t

Jeff J. Snider
Aug 28, 2018
Cleveland Indians, Features, Opinions & Predictions
My friend (and former Baseball Essential colleague) Jeremy Frank asked an interesting question over on his Twitter account, @MLBRandomStats: https://twitter.com/MLBRandomStats/status/1033841555226996736 T...

In Jersey Retirement Ceremony, Bonds Finally Gets a Proper Salute

Tom Dorsa
Aug 17, 2018
Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants
His legacy is complicated, but the retirement of his jersey number was inevitable, and frankly, overdue. On Saturday, the San Francisco Giants retired the infamous #25 of longtime fan-favorite and Major League ...

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens Still Far Off From Hall of Fame

David Barclay
Jan 26, 2018
American League East, Baseball History, Breaking News, Features, Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball, National League West, New York Yankees, Opinions & Predictions, San Francisco Giants
Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are undoubtedly as good as ball players as any others enshrined in Cooperstown. Bonds, the seven-time MVP, and Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young award winner, still suffering from t...

Top 10 MLB Free Agent Contracts of All Time

Brent Maguire
Jan 12, 2018
Headlines, Major League Baseball, Offseason
MLB Free Agency is one of the biggest crapshoots in all of sports. Given that more and more players are signing pre-arbitration deals that lock them up into their late twenties, most players reach free agency i...

Opinion: The Hall is Already Tainted; Let PED-Era Players In

Tom Dorsa
Nov 30, 2017
Baseball History, Hall of Fame, Headlines, Opinions & Predictions
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Last Tuesday morning, members of the Baseball Writers Association of America received an email from a Hall of Famer himself, Joe Morgan, asking to exclude known and suspected users of performing enhancing drugs...

Steroids Saved Baseball; Let’s Bring Them Back

Evan Marinofsky
Jun 20, 2016
Features, Headlines, Opinions & Predictions
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Thanks to the media that we have today, it’s almost comical how massive a topic can become. There is no statistic to measure the impact of the media -- at least not yet. We can only measure its impact through i...

The Greatest Season Ever Was Unlucky

Ben Diamond
Mar 22, 2016
Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions
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If you ask ten people what the greatest season of all time was, you may get ten different answers. But, there’s a good chance one of these answers was Barry Bonds’s 2001. What was special about it? The 12.5 ...

Barry Bonds Takes Down Giancarlo Stanton in a Home Run Contest

Joshua Sadlock
Mar 16, 2016
Headlines, Miami Marlins
Barry Bonds is 51 years old and has not played professional baseball in almost a decade. Years of post-career cycling (and what I can only assume is the adoption of a fully-vegan diet) have helped the all-time ...
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