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4.4KResearchWho Ranks as the Number One in the HOF?
It’s not always easy ranking players in the Hall of Fame. After all, there are so many excellent players in Major League...
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4.7KHall of FameA Simpler Way to Consider the Hall of Fame Ballot
Here’s the premise: let’s say the 30 players on this year’s ballot are available in a hypothetical time-machine expansion draft and a...
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5.4KResearchThe 2022 Off The Bench Hall of Fame Ballot Chat
3:31 PM Max Hello! Is it that time of year again? 3:34 PM Sean I believe it is! We’ve been doing this...
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4.9K1ResearchThe Holiday Birthday Baseball Lineup
It’s holiday season, so whether you celebrate (celebrated) Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Festivus, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or nothing at all, we can still relate...
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5.9K2AL WestKyle Seager’s Surprising Retirement
When the 2021 season ended, there seemed to be a number of possibilities for the future of Kyle Seager. He was not...
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5.0K1ReviewsStop What You’re Doing and Read Lords of the Realm
My first draft of this post, written less than a day after I finished reading John Helyar’s incredible Lords of the Realm...
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7.0KHall of FameThe Best and Worst One-and-Done HOF Candidates
A .J. Pierzynski places in the 98th percentile of all MLB players ever. As a left-handed hitting catcher, he lasted 19 seasons...
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5.9KHall of FameReflecting on Buster Posey’s Career
Last month, after 12 seasons of Major League Baseball, Buster Posey made the surprising yet defensible decision to step away from the...
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Hall of Fame
Four MORE Flavors of Hall of Fame Ballots
Yesterday, Off the Bench published the Four Flavors of Hall of Fame Ballots, wherein we covered the multitude of ways that people...
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5.6K1Hall of FameThe Four Flavors of Hall of Fame ballots
Along with Bill of Rights Day, the Winter Solstice, and Rickey Henderson’s birthday, December is Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot month. It’s...