Major League Baseball probably needs to return sometime soon, because here comes another post about baseball cards. I feel like it's August, 1994 all over again. Baseball went on strike that su...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/04/again-with-baseball-cards.html
The following is a guest post by WH, who holds the dual distinction of A. being at Yankee Stadium for game 4 of the 2001 World Series and nearly passing away during Tino Martinez's game-tying, n...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/04/wh-guest-contribution.html
The easy answer to every question in this series is that I had season tickets to the New Orleans Baby Cakes during their unremarkable three year run after a massive marketing makeover. And m...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/why-do-i-have-kris-bryant-ball.html
Aroldis Chapman is best known for throwing baseballs very very fast. Over the last couple of seasons he has thrown baseballs less fast, but still heaves the spheroid at a ridiculous pace. He a...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/aroldis-chapman-is-jacked.html
Thursday was supposed to be Opening Day, but it wasn’t, and that was heartbreaking. And then teams started airing past Opening Day games on TV, or streaming them on Twitter, so that was a nic...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/baseball-watchlist-covered-in-cheeto.html
The Federal League was one of the few non-defunct leagues in baseball history and its goal was to find a way past Major League Baseball's reserve clause. It didn't follow the National Agreement o...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/a-brief-nonsense-history-of-federal_27.html
Despite having not umpired a game in several months, Wes Huntley hasn't been able to escape fan's criticism. Huntley, who was about to begin his eighth season as an umpire in various independent...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/umpire-not-doing-much-of-anything-still.html
LIVING ROOM - Since its supposed to be opening day, we're going to see how the players on these 15 cards (18 total players) I found would fare in a fictional game with results that I make up as ...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/i-found-some-1992-topps-cards-lets-play.html
It's been a while since I've had the chance to remind everybody that Mike Trout is the best. Except for my wife, she hears it everyday. It turns into a whole "why don't you just marry him then" c...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/mike-trout-is-better-at-social.html
Yesterday the LA Times ran a piece where they interviewed Scott Boras about a plan that he has for the possible playing of this year’s baseball season because of course he has a plan. His tw...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/scott-boras-has-plan-so-do-i.html
Tommy John Surgery sucks. Not that I have partaken in it, but it has caused me pain and anguish over the last 10 years, so I feel it is fair to ask for restitution. This year is different...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/noah-sale-god-all-call-in-sick-for-2020.html
In October last year, Joe West sued Paul Lo Duca for defamation when MLB and horse-racing analyst (actual thing) Lo Duca made a claim on a podcast that Joe West accepted a bribe from Billy...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/joe-west-being-ignored.html
A lot has changed these past few weeks with the global outbreak of the coronavirus. One of the big changes, at least in the United States, is in the lack of toilet paper for sale at grocery and ...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/its-whole-new-world-world-without_24.html
14 Days. That’s how long it has been since Major League Baseball decided to suspend minor league games. It feels like longer, but that’s probably because we use sports seasons to let u...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2020/03/quarantine-fever-dreams.html
I was watching the first game of the Liberty-VCU series last Friday (Liberty won 5-4 thanks to home runs from Jonathan Embry and Tre Todd) and at one point play-by-play man Alan York started talk...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2018/02/sicnarf-loopstok.html
Was the question several of us were thinking when Tampa Bay made the move last Saturday. The only reasonable explanation in getting rid of a guy who slashed .282/.325/.490 with 27 home runs a y...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2018/02/why-was-corey-dickerson-designated-for.html
Recently, like most adults, I suffered an accident that you wouldn't expect to pop out of nowhere while you're closing in on 40. I'm not there yet. I have a couple of years. But I'm close enough ...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2018/02/the-segway-into-segue.html
First, there was Tebowing. Then his football career ended abruptly because of the mystery ailment notagoodquarterbackitis. Then there was the announcing. Then came the jump into professional ...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2017/03/tim-tebow-wants-all-babies-mets-baseball-adoption.html
Hi. My name is Josh, and I am an addict. Hi, Josh. This is a very real thing that is going to be said in the very near future for the Angels enigmatic and ridiculously overpaid and declin...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2015/04/josh-hamilton-avoids-suspension-john.html
Dafuq? It came three years too late, but it seems as if some form of common sense has crept into the brain of RUBEN AMARO Jr. As of an hour ago according to AARON GLEEMAN AT HARDBALL TALK ,...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2015/03/phillies-willing-to-spend-50-million-to.html
There is still snow on the ground outside of my window, and numerous forecasts calling for temperatures so low that no person in their right mind would inhabit those areas. But, yesterday, sp...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2015/03/there-was-baseball-game-yesterday-no.html
Getting bored waiting for the baseball season to arrive? Sitting on a pile of one dollar bills after you cleaned house on Christmas morning? Then maybe it is time to alleviate that boredom (a...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2014/12/bovada-world-series-odds-for-potential.html
Some decisions in life are easy, some are not. Brushing your teeth in the morning is an easy decision because rotted teeth are gross, and nobody likes rotted teeth. Therefore, you get up, ev...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2014/10/corey-kluber-felix-hernandez-cy-young-award-baseball.html
Oh boy, here we go. With the news last week of the Dodgers stealing Andrew Friedman, JOE MADDON has also decided to jump the Tampa Bay Rays ship and OPT OUT OF HIS CURRENT CONTRACT that ...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2014/10/joe-maddon-contract-hot-stove-baseball.html
Sup? Sup. /head nod Suuuuuuup. Here we are. It's the middle of October, and baseball has now finally widdled itself down to its final two teams. As all the experts predicted, the Royals and ...
http://www.offbasepercentage.com/2014/10/world-series-predictions-playoffs-royals-giants.html