Richmond Native Verlander remains the career leader of Opening day starts. Photo unk via rumorsandrants.com Now that the 2025 Opening Day is past us, and I’ve updated the XLS for this year’s starters and done some housecleaning of now-retired starters, here’s some Opening day starter trivia for you. Here’s a link to the Opening day starter xls, which is also updated … [Read more...] about Opening Day Starter Trivia for 2025 plus Observations on the state of Starting Pitching
Nats Opener History and Trivia updated for 2025
Sorry MacKenzie, you can’t win ’em all! Photo wikipedia Welcome to the 2025 Baseball Season! Well, it isn’t every day you get a 6ip, 1hit, 0run, 13K, 0BB effort from a starter and lose, but that’s what the Nats managed to do yesterday in their home and season opener against the hated Phillies. MacKenzie Gore certainly carved through the Phillies lineup, each of whom … [Read more...] about Nats Opener History and Trivia updated for 2025
Six Weeks into Div1 Season Check-In on 1-1 Candidates
Liam Doyle can sure strike them out; but is it Nuke Laloosh style? Photo via his X Here’s our third check-in on the 1-1 candidates, focusing on the College players now that they’re six weeks (aka six weekend series) into their seasons. We’re into the conference schedules, so no more patty cakes for these guys, and we should start to see some better indication of how good … [Read more...] about Six Weeks into Div1 Season Check-In on 1-1 Candidates
Housekeeping Post – Link cleanup and Resource review
I do a lot of spreadsheet work when it comes to tracking Baseball stuff that I like to track. Some of those have turned into relatively well-known resources, while others are things I generally edit privately and post to Google Sheets sporadically. First, some Housekeeping. Frequent commenter Will pointed this out, and also pointed out that the links on the front page of … [Read more...] about Housekeeping Post – Link cleanup and Resource review
Todd Boss Top 104 Prospects for the Nats system
This will be the last time we use Crews’ image on a prospect list. Next up hopefully we’re talkinga bout ROY. Photo via Crews’ Instagram page. You read that headline correctly. Believe it or not, I have more than 100 names on my list for this system, and its time to reveal them. There’s only about 165 players even allowed to be on minor league domestic rosters, then add … [Read more...] about Todd Boss Top 104 Prospects for the Nats system