My mother-in-law called me excitedly Wednesday afternoon to tell me that her physical therapist's brother - a minor league pitcher - was getting promoted to the majors with the Reds. His brothe...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2023/04/lehighs-levi-looking-to-last.html
Year Ex. Inn. Games 11+ IP 12+ IP 13+ IP 14+ IP 2010-11 457 242 116 65 34 2012-13 435 231 133 82 52 2014-15 444 260 151 85 41 2016-17 367 207 107 56 26 2018-19 424 233 131 76 ...
Controversial pitching ace Trevor Bauer signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers last week, which was remarkable on a number of levels : Bauer only secured a three-year deal, whereas most 30-year o...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2021/02/controversial-pitching-ace-trevor-bauer.html
As I mentioned yesterday, the way MLB chose to set up its schedule for 2020 effectively means that there really was no true National League and American League. Normally it makes sense to hav...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/10/pitching-leaders-and-mvps-and-cy-youngs.html
This was a weird year. In an effort to minimize travel, and thereby minimize potential exposure to COVID-19, Major League Baseball implemented an odd, 60-game schedule that allowed teams on...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/09/2020-playoff-teams-and-batting-champs.html
People sometimes talk about a team being "consistently inconsistent," meaning that they never seem to string together a winning (or losing) streak of more than a few games. The 2020 Yankees ar...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/09/the-2020-yankees-so-streaky-even-facing.html
Hoo-boy... I dunno if y'all heard about this one, but Fernando Tatis hit two homers! The second one when his team was already leading by quite a little piece! A lot of people were really upset ...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/08/tatis-grand-slam-and-writing-about.html
Welp, here I am again, going down another JoePos rabbit hole... Today's baseball-in-the-time -of-COVID essay details the inexplicable way in which Ted Williams managed to win his second Tripl...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/08/welp-here-i-am-again-going-down-another.html
The news today that Nick Markakis is to rejoin the Braves , having changed his mind about opting out due to concerns over COVID-19 reminded me of this article I read on MLB.com more than two y...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/07/missing-markakis-in-quest-for-3000.html
One of the more fun aspects of Joe Posnanski's run-down of the 100 greatest players of all time over at The Athletic is his tendency to go down into "rabbit holes". He'll chase something tha...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/03/ken-griffey-jr-and-nl-gold-glove-voting.html
Modern technology is great. For the last decade or so, a small group of devoted fans, led by Ryan Thibodaux , has been collecting the publicly and privately confessed Cooperstown voting result...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/01/notes-on-mlb-hof-voting-before-2020.html
The latest in Joe Posnanski's series on the top 100 baseball players of all time, over at The Athletic, is Robin Roberts . Among the other compelling stories he tells about Roberts is thi...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2020/01/how-did-robin-roberts-lose-nl-mvp-in.html
The Cubs had a really rough second half, largely owing to the ineffectiveness of their closer, Craig Kimbrel, signed to a three year contract in the middle of the season after sitting out the fi...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2019/09/homer-prone-kimbrel-impetus-for-maddons.html
The 2019 Yankees have lost five games on walk-offs on the road this year, and their best relief pitcher, Aroldis Chapman, has appeared in exactly none of them. These games were: 1. Yankees Lo...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2019/09/why-not-use-aroldis-chapman-in-tie-game.html
In case you were as yet uncertain of the State of Things in Major League Baseball, i.e. whether teams were really tanking in order to try to A) be more competitive in the future, or 2) make more...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2019/09/in-case-you-were-as-yet-uncertain-of.html
In response to Joe Posnaski's riveting, highly important, gritty journalism piece on the handedness of a computer graphic , I present the following: The Statcast hittter! 1) The initial ...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2019/09/in-response-to-joe-posnaskis-riveting.html
Justin Verlander threw his third career no-hitter on Sunday, against the Blue Jays. This is apparently a record as he's the first opposing player to ever no-hit the same team twice in their ow...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2019/09/verlanders-no-hitter-and-considering.html
I don't know if this really means anything or not, but it's something I've been noticing all season because - after a decade-long hiatus from the practice to be a dad* - I've started playing fan...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2019/08/wain-youre-wright-youre-right.html
Joe Posnanski posted a fascinating, albeit sad, story about Pumpsie Green , the first African American player to play for the Red Sox, which was the last team to integrate, more than a dozen yea...
Today is the second of May, 2018. Due to quirks in early season schedules and the fact that Albert Hammond was a prophet , the San Diego Padres have played the most games in MLB, which happens...
http://www.boyofsummer.net/2018/05/hosmer-hitting-without-producing.html