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Josh Gibson's 'record' average, in just 78 games By JohnW53 on Feb 15, 2021, 5:48am CST + Late last year, Major League Baseball announced its intention to declare several Negro Leagues as official big leagues. Last week, a committee of the Society for American Baseball Research recommended that 7 leagues be recognized: the Negro National League I (1920-31), Negro National League II (1933-48), Negro American League (1937-48), Eastern Colored League (1923-28), American Negro League (1929), East-West League (1932) and Negro Southern League (1932). MLB also said it would incorporate t...

Who could the Royals have drafted in the 80s? Share this story This is the second installment looking back at who the Royals could have selected in past drafts, by the decade. I’m not sure if there is anything more difficult in life than identifying baseball talent. Brain surgery? Talking to women? The list is pretty short. Staking your career as a scout or General Manager to the analysis of 18–22-year-old ball players is a risky endeavor. Why do some players make it and some do not? That remains the million-dollar question that vexes all teams. 1980 The 1980 draft was the Darryl Strawbe...

12:02 Dan Szymborski: And hello happy chatters, for this edition of SzymChat that appeared on the front page! 12:03 TD: Assuming the Mets have about $25m to spend, how would you distribute that money to improve the roster? 12:04 Dan Szymborski: I think I’d sign Justin Turner for $10 million and pay myself $15 million. It improves the roster. 12:04 Dan: Finally got on for one of your chats this year… Can you do the ZiPS “what-if” I’ve been nagging you about for a decade, Bonds if he hadn’t been a victim of collusion in ’07? I’m guessing ~50 more homers, ~135 OPS+ in three sea...

A few days ago, there was an excellent conversation in the comments section of Joe Posnanski’s “Hall of Fame Outsiders” article on Fred McGriff in The Athletic. Numerous people who weren’t fans of the various teams on which McGriff played noted that he was their favorite player on a rival team. I grew up in small-town southwestern Ontario, and came of baseball-age in the 1980s when the Jays-Tigers rivalry was white-hot — both teams were great, they were geographically close to each other, and a lot of us remember that stretch drive in 1987. Joe Kool’s, a sports bar in London, Ont...

share-square-1072922 TORONTO -- When you scan the crowd of a baseball game at Rogers Centre, you see jersey numbers that define eras of Blue Jays baseball.  There are plenty of No. 19 and No. 20 jerseys for José Bautista and Josh Donaldson, with the postseason runs of 2015 and ‘16 still fresh, while Roy Halladay’s No. 32 and Roberto Alomar’s No. 12 -- the only two numbers retired by the organization -- remain a staple.  As the next generation of Blue Jays stars begin to lay claim to their own numbers and climb the ranks of franchise greats before them, here is a look back t...