There has been some talk recently about low home run rates in October being attributed to a de-juiced ball. I don't have any data on this claim, other than, allegedly, fly balls are travelling ab...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2019/10/why-hr-totals-are-down-in-october.html
Here's a list of Major League ballparks I have visited, listed in order of visit, and the year of visitation. Some are no longer in use, and I will note that as well. Oakland Coliseum, Oakland,...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2017/07/ballparks-i-have-visited.html
After several years of personal analysis, I've come to the conclusion that the Giants need to blow up the team and start over with a youth movement. Here are the specifics: Keep Posey and Bumga...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2017/07/giants-time-to-start-over.html
The word is out from Major League Baseball that it wants to do what it can to shorten games. They have been looking at speeding up the game by eliminating things that "waste" time. I am all for t...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2017/07/making-instant-replay-better.html
In my last post I looked at the all time home run leader list's top 12 hitters, and noted how few championships those players had between them. In this post, I want to mention another noteworthy ...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2016/07/pitching-wins-championships-2.html
There's an old saying in baseball, "Pitching wins championships." I've believed this to be true, but only because I've assumed it to be true. As I thought about this for the last week, I did some...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2015/12/pitching-wins-championships.html
I followed the baseball season fairly closely this year, especially the pennant races and post-season. I picked up on some conflicting sentiments that were attributed to fans on behalf of the med...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/11/baseball-fans-and-wild-card.html
2014 World Series Game 6: Kansas City Royals 10, San Francisco Giants 0. Contrary to what this looks like at first glance, this was as painless a way to lose a game 6 that there is. Why would I...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/11/reflections-on-game-6.html
Well, many people are calling the Giants' World-Series-winning ways "Dynasty." Yes, the Giants have dominated this decade, and winning three titles in five years is certainly nothing to write off...
I saw my first AAA game a few nights ago as my family was returning from vacation. We stopped in to visit family in Fresno, CA, and were treated to tickets to Friday night's Grizzlies game (our ...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/08/thats-why-youre-still-in-minors.html
(written several weeks ago, published today) Baseball's "dropped third strike" rule (on any third strike not caught on the fly and held by the catcher, the batter is allowed to advance to firs...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/07/dropped-third-strike.html
Opening Day is finally here. With all the rain outside it doesn't feel like it. Both the Giants and A's open tonight, barring rainouts. The G-Men open in the desert, while the Athletics are to op...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/03/opening-day-2014.html
I have no idea why MLB plays overseas games as part of the regular season with a week left in Spring Training. But I think it should stop. This year, the Dodgers and Diamondbacks played two gam...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/03/mlb-stop-regular-season-games-overseas.html
As I pointed out a couple of posts ago, the Giants and Dodgers have played in five of the last six NLCS. The only problem with this NLCS domination is that they have not played against each other...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2014/03/we-could-use-giantsdodgers-nlcs.html
A Giants Season Ticket Holder Remembers This is the last season that the San Francisco 49ers will play at Candlestick Park. Tonight is the last game. The Giants abandoned the much maligned ...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2013/12/memories-of-49ers-at-candlestick.html
The past six seasons have brought us an NLCS in which we saw the Phillies play three consecutive years ('08, '09, '10), and the Cardinals play three consecutive years ('11, '12, '13). It also...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2013/11/dodger-downer-giant-upper.html
Last night the Philadelphia Phillies lost to the New York Mets - their 82nd loss of the year - clinching a losing season. It took the Phils five years to fall from World Champs to a losing team...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2013/09/phillies-phall-to-phutility-phinal.html
For the longest time I have been against baseball using instant replay for any reason. You could call this an "old school" approach. But I have been re-thinking this in light of what I see as...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2013/06/can-instant-replay-work.html
Recent baseball wisdom holds that wild-card teams can be more successful in the post-season than their division winning counterparts because they are usually the hotter team right at the end of t...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2013/03/post-season-wild-card-success.html
The Athletics moved to Oakland in 1968 from Kansas City. Since then, here's what the A's have compiled. It's a startling list: Oakland Coliseum, Oakland A's 44 seasons 15 division title...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2012/11/pitchers-park.html
I've heard some all-time franchise stats before, scattered here and there from announcers or talk show hosts. I've wanted to collect or calculate some franchise stats for a long time now. For...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2012/11/giants-franchise-historical-greatness.html
The Giants win the 2012 World Series! Their second championship in three years. I can say right now that this will never get old, as I'm sure fans of other teams have found when their teams w...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-giants-win-world-series-again.html
For those of you who might be surprised by what you're seeing in the World Series (I'm writing this after game 2 of the 2012 series, with the Giants up two games to none on the Tigers), or this ...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2012/10/giants-baseball-primer.html
Most websites that carry the Major League standings these days have a column with an elimination number. Looking at this number from the point of view of the first place team, it can also be c...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2012/09/mathematical-elimination.html
In my last post, I said I would publish a list of interleague rivalries, those interleague matchups that will (or probably will) occur every year, regardless of which divisions play each other. ...
http://fromthebleachers.blogspot.com/2012/09/interleague-rivalry-matchups-for-2013.html