You know how this works: Oldest player on the 40-man roster without a World Series ring. Let's see who this year's lucky candidates to get their first one are. ATLANTA BRAVES: Darren O'Day (Octo...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2020/09/oldest-ringless-players-2020-edition.html
Hey, everyone! I'm back! For the few of you who read this blog, you might have noticed that it's been a long time since I've posted. That's because it's been hard for me to get too excited about ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2020/09/2020-playoff-predictions.html
Congratulations to the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2020: Ted Simmons, Marvin Miller, Derek Jeter, and Larry Walker! All are picks I have no objection to, so I'm happy. Simmons is one of thos...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2020/01/hall-of-fame-class-of-2020.html
Not a big post here. Just letting you know I've updated the following pages in light of this year's award winners being announced: Rookie of the Year Facts The Second Place Award Winners
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-few-updates.html
2019 has been a year for franchises' first championships: The NHL's St. Louis Blues won their first Stanley Cup, the NBA's Toronto Raptors won their first NBA title, and now the Washington Nation...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/10/congrats-nats-plus-some-updates.html
Some of you longtime readers may remember a list I made when the Rangers were in their first World Series back in 2010 . Mitch Moreland was the first Ranger to homer in World Series play, and I t...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-list-updated-after-nine-years-first.html
Yes, folks, I'm still alive. I decided to take a break from compulsively updating this blog because it was getting to be too much of a distraction. But I'm back for playoff time, the part we all ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/10/oldest-ringless-players-and-playoff.html
As a follow-up to this post , I thought it'd be fun to look at who played the most games for each of today's current franchises when they played under different polity names. In this case, there ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-old-home-boys.html
It's a little late, I know, but I thought I'd chime in with my 2019 predictions, which I guarantee will be wrong. But what's baseball without some speculation? I'm going with my gut on these, so ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/04/2019-predictions.html
Sometimes a player is simply a perfect fit for the team he plays for. Sometimes it's because he embodies the city's personality, sometimes his skill set fits the team's plan to a a T, and sometim...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-home-boys.html
Baby names see their popularity come and go. Some names at this point are only associated with people of a certain generation, and no doubt many of today's popular names will go down in history t...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-first-of-his-first-name.html
This year's inductees to Cooperstown are a tale of two electoral bodies. While I hate the media, I'll give the BBWAA credit for getting this year's election right: Mariano Rivera , Edgar Martinez...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2019/01/thoughts-on-2019-hall-of-fame-class.html
Drafting in professional sports, as we all know, is an inexact science. History is littered with "can't-miss" prospects who did just that, and unheralded players who rose to stardom. The general ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/12/who-was-lowest-drafted-signee-to-make.html
After an anticlimactic postseason that saw the Red Sox win it again (and where my predictions were a big pile of LOL), it's time for the annual updates to our ongoing lists. Enjoy! Rookie of ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/11/annual-updates-2018.html
On what I believe was the first day in Major League history with two tiebreakers played, both teams I was rooting for lost. Needless to say, I'm not terribly thrilled as I write this post. But I ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/10/playoff-predictions-2018-edition.html
And then there were ten! With the elimination of the Cardinals this afternoon, we now know who our ten postseason teams are, and we can check out this year's edition of the Oldest Ringless Player...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/09/oldest-ringless-players-2018-edition.html
It's time for another installment of Ultimate Number Players! In case you've forgotten how this works, the Ultimate Number Player has to have worn a particular uniform number with every stint wit...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/08/ultimate-number-players-21-25.html
For today's post, I''m just going to share some data I've compiled and you can make of it what you will. At what point are half the players on a team deceased? If the total number of players (l...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/07/half-guys-are-gone.html
My earlier post about "Interregnum Players " has an interesting variant: Players whose stints with a team include the years before and after a championship, but not the championship years themsel...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/06/missed-it-by-that-much.html
The game isn't played on paper. This we all know. But that doesn't stop us from asking whether the results we see were the ones we should have expected. One concept that has gained popularity o...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-pythagorean-pennant.html
Not every player gets to be a part of the championship teams. Some lucky (or unlucky) few do, however, get to join the roster in the aftermath of a championship and skip out just before the next ...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/04/interregnum-players.html
The 2018 season is upon us, and that means it's time to make some predictions. If you recall, last year I predicted a World Series matchup between Los Angeles and Houston , so clearly Baseball Ju...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/03/2018-predictions.html
With the recent release of the February 2018 SABR Biographical Research Committee newsletter , it was revealed that a few deaths from years past slipped through the cracks. One of them was former...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/03/is-1990s-cub-pitcher-death-phenomenon.html
Active players from the 1990s have been dwindling year by year, and the only ones left in Spring Training 2018 are Bartolo Colon and Adrian Beltre, both of the Texas Rangers. Colon seems to be cl...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/02/final-12-players-by-decade.html
We have six new Hall of Famers for 2018, and that means the list of Hall of Famers' first major league home runs has been updated. My thoughts on our new inductees? In brief: CHIPPER JONES, J...
http://baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com/2018/01/obligatory-hall-of-fame-update-2018.html