I enjoy writing about baseball, it’s my hobby and a way I release stress while also keeping my mind engaged. When I write for Baseball Prospectus or other sites/publications I am getting paid. Still, I don’t need money to write with professionalism. This doesn’t mean I’m not going to write in a manner I find […]
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A Trip to the Library: Power Ball
Power Ball was a Christmas pick up for me, one of a handful of books that I bought with bonus Amazon money from work. I picked it up on the strength of lots of positive reviews, and yet it sat on my bookshelf for many months and I found myself constantly passing it over to […]
This Week in Baseball: 07-01-2019
Derrick Goold – St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Baseball is a funny game, always has been and always will be. A slight twinge in a decision here or there can change the trajectory of entire careers and franchises. Imagine if the St. Louis Cardinals had traded Albert Pujols before he ever played a regular season game for […]
A Lament for the Stolen Base
I first became a fan of baseball in the mid-1980s. There was a lot to love about the game, some things right off the bat, while other aspects I grew to love as time went on. One element of baseball that I loved from the get-go was the concept of the stolen base. The entire […]
A Trip to the Library: Smart Baseball
I’m a relatively new convert to the sabermetrics side of baseball. I know it may seem at times, based on my writing at least, that I am someone who is deeply entrenched in the sabermetric world. I’d like to think I’m someone who has slowly been able to immerse himself into sabermetrics and gain a […]