2014: Matt Williams named NL Manager of the Year
October 2015: Nationals fire Matt Williams
2016-2017: Dusty Baker becomes most successful manager in Nationals/Expos franchise history
October 2017: Nationals fire Dusty Baker (more…)
Adrián Beltré’s recent 3000th career hit kicked off a conversation in my baseball circles about where he ranks in history among the game’s best third basemen. I took a statistical approach, looking at each player’s career WAR and using a positional adjustment for games they have actually played at their position. (more…)
Like any kid, I wanted to be a major league baseball player.
I played baseball in high school, but having spent most of my grade school years up in Canada, I was a little behind most of my American peers when I moved back down to the US for 11th grade. A birthday on the wrong side of the cut-off date for grade placement didn’t help things, making me almost a year younger than most of my peers. I wasn’t very good and spent most of the time riding the bench. (more…)
So I was chatting with a buddy about some baseball stuff, specifically how public perception of Barry Bonds has changed over the years.
I described to him how I remember that Bonds was generally well-liked in the early 90’s. Around that time, it was like “Holy shit, with all these metrics coming out now, is Bonds really the best player in baseball? And has he been for several years now?” Sabergeeks were loving him more and more as analysis gained momentum. His prickly personality was maybe not so prickly yet and certainly wasn’t well-known. (more…)
