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  • Keith Hernandez: Greatest Moments

    Keith Hernandez: Greatest Moments

    In this post, we will look at some of the greatest moments of Keith Hernandez, who played for 17 seasons mostly for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets.  In Hernandez’s storied career he accomplished the following: In addition, many consider Hernandez to be the best defensive first baseman of all time.  As…

  • Singapore Major Leaguer

    Singapore Major Leaguer

    It was never our intention, prior to creating Baseball Purist, to spend all of our time focusing on the ills of the current game, in terms of the most recent rule changes.  If that were the case, then this blog would simply be too negative.  Instead, we will spend posts such as this one to…

  • Sadly We Once Again Revisit the Oakland A’s john fisher

    Sadly We Once Again Revisit the Oakland A’s john fisher

    We never imagined when we started this site that one person would provide so much content, but unfortunately for Oakland A’s fans that is the case with their owner john fisher. In sad and not surprising fashion, MLB approved the move of the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas.  As we mentioned in prior posts (here…

  • Pitch Clock Playoffs

    Pitch Clock Playoffs

    In our last post, we pointed out the all-time lowest ratings in this year’s World Series.   The disastrous ratings were not just limited to the World Series, since the entire post season was down 8% from 2022.  In addition, games across FOX, FS1 and TBS/truTV averaged 3.1 million viewers, which was down from the 3.4…

  • Pitch Clock World Series

    Pitch Clock World Series

    We touched on this in one of our earlier posts that World Series ratings have been on the decline for some time now.  The baseball gods though decided that the fix was to add a pitch clock and other rule changes to speed up the game.  One would think the introduction of the pitch clock…

  • Trevor May: Passion vs Greed

    Trevor May: Passion vs Greed

    Previously, we pointed out here and here that John Fisher of the Oakland Athletics is one of the worst baseball owners in all of baseball.  If you thought that opinion was strictly our own here at BP, then think again.  Trevor May, an A’s relief pitcher had a few choice words for Mr. Fisher upon…

  • Doubling Your Misery (Part II): The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock

    Doubling Your Misery (Part II): The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock

    In our prior post, we bemoaned the fact that MLB took a hatchet to the rules in order to save a mere 24 minutes of game time.  As also mentioned, we stated that anecdotally it seems that fans are less averse to the pitch clock than they are to the ghost runner.  Both those rules…

  • Doubling Your Misery: The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock

    Doubling Your Misery: The Ghost Runner and the Pitch Clock

    There are two rules that have likely had the greatest impact on shortening the game.  The first is the ghost runner and the other is the pitch clock.  From a purely anecdotal scanning of opinion pieces and fan reactions throughout the internet, it appears that most fans would scrap the ghost runner, but most favor…

  • Mind Bending Attendance Logic

    Mind Bending Attendance Logic

    After just concluding the season, MLB and the media are touting the 6.2 million increase in fans from the prior year (2022) and for the most part believe that the new rule changes were the main factors driving this increase.  The current season saw attendance top the 70 million mark for all thirty clubs, which…

  • The Cheapest and Most Tone Deaf Owner

    The Cheapest and Most Tone Deaf Owner

    Previously in our series about bad owners we brought to you John Fisher of the Oakland A’s.  In addition to Mr. Fisher being a bad and disloyal owner (as he is moving his club to Las Vegas next year and robbing the Bay Area of their long time club), you can also add cheap and…

  • Neutral Pitch Clock Monitor?

    Neutral Pitch Clock Monitor?

    This recent article notes that MLB will be employing neutral pitch clock monitors for the upcoming playoffs.  Yes that’s right, neutral pitch clock monitors are actually a thing.  The money quote from this article is that, “The league apparently evaluated clock operators from all 30 teams throughout the season and will choose up to the…

  • The Disappearing Ghost Runner

    The Disappearing Ghost Runner

    While we here at BP support MLB for their consistency in deciding that the pitch clock rules would remain the same even for the upcoming playoffs, that same consistency seems to be lost when it comes to the ghost runner.  We want to be clear though, BP despises both the pitch clock and the ghost…