My passion for baseball and my hometown Philadelphia Phillies would begin at age nine at the start of the 1971 Major League Baseball season. The 1970's marked the beginning years in my life-long relationship with the game and the decade would close with attending my first World Series in person.
My 2024 IBWAA Hall of Fame ballot
A "small ballot" guy over recent years, the nominees this time around led me to expand my ballot out to double-digits for the first time since 2019. This year, 10 players received my vote for the IBWAA Hall of Fame.
Wild final week looms in MLB postseason races
As of the start of play on Monday, September 25, there was just one final week remaining in the 2023 MLB regular season. For at least half of the 30 clubs, the test results are going to result in a failing grade. Well, that is, at least if postseason contention is your measuring stick.
Scott Rolen deserves enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Rolen has a career bWAR of 70.1, which is higher than Tony Gwynn, Eddie Murray, Ivan Rodriguez, Carlton Fisk, Edgar Martinez, Ryne Sandberg, Roberto Alomar, Craig Biggio, Andre Dawson, and other position players of recent decades.
Memo Luna and those baseball lost in 2021
I would venture that almost none of you, certainly very few, know about the career of one Memo Luna. That career was the shortest of anyone lost to us in 2021, less than one inning of one contest in 1954.
MATT VEASEY 