Baseball Talk

My dad has always told me that the way he distinguishes a great hitter was if he stopped what he was doing and watched their at bat. He told me that every time Big Papi was hitting he was watching. Both of these guys were nearly career long DHs. Both late bloomers and both some ….  Read More

Ever since I can remember Dustin Pedroia has been my favorite player on the Sox. He was small, hustled, and played second base. My first number was 15 his number, when I started playing I told my coaches I was second basemen (I was terrible). He was a great player in my early childhood winning ….  Read More

Recently I was reading Baseball Prospectus and as I was reading Rickie Weeks’ 2006 comment I noticed that in his comment it read, “A subtle form of racism in baseball is black players rarely can be labeled as scrappy. Rickie Weeks, to me was a good leadoff hitter and a very scrappy player. I’d say ….  Read More

Anyone reading this blog will surely think I’m biased as I am a Red Sox fan. But Ted Williams is for sure the best hitter of all time. A .344 all time average may do it by itself, but this mans utter dominance of pitching during his career even as a older player. He has ….  Read More

Before the start of the now delayed MLB season MLB Network released their rankings for the top ten players at each position right now. I noticed that Xander Bogaerts was only fifth on this list and behind Marcus Semien. Marcus Semien is a great player but he has only had one really good offensive season ….  Read More

My parents grew up in Boston so naturally they were Red Sox fans. Some of their favorite players from the 80’s were Dwight Evans, Marty Barrett, Jim Rice, Spaceman Lee, you get the idea. Out of those 4 players only one of them is a Hall of Famer, Jim Rice. I am not saying that ….  Read More