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Takeaways from this year’s Hall of Fame voting

Jan 23, 2020

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

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

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

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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