Baseball Purist
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Statistics you Likely Never Heard About nor Care to Hear About
PPTV, CPTV or DSV. Have you ever heard of any of these acronyms? Neither have we. No, they are not new variants of Covid nor are they government agencies. Do not feel bad, we didn’t know what these stood for before we started researching pitch clock related violations. The pitch clock has sprouted a number…
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The Not So Starry All Star Ratings
First All Star Game – 1933
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MLB Fail: All Star Uniforms
The All Star Game was just held last week in Seattle and much of the attention was on the jerseys worn by the American and National League players. In what has been a continuing trend MLB has decided in recent years to eliminate any distinction between players by having them wear similar uniforms rather than…
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Bad Owners Series: Colorado Rockies
In our continuing series of bad MLB owners, we bring you the Colorado Rockies. The franchises primary owners are brothers Charles and Richard Monfort, who are sons of Kenneth Monfort who owned a successful meatpacking company that was later acquired by ConAgra foods. The brothers have owned the team since 2005, with Richard as the…
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Our Too Early Pitch Clock Check In
It is probably way too early, but we thought we would look at average game attendance and where it stands compared to the prior year, since this is the year of the pitch clock. We are at about half way through the season, and per Baseball-Reference.com (as of July 3rd) baseball has currently drawn about…
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The Balanced Schedule
Part of the homogenization of baseball has been to essentially eliminate any difference between the American and National Leagues. The introduction now of the universal DH and a balanced schedule, whereby every team now plays every other team during the year erases almost any dissimilarity between either league. The table below (introduction of the new…
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Bad Owners Series: Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics win the 1973 World Series
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Warm Up Pitches
Unbelievably pitch clocks also now apply to pitchers when warming up between innings. Normally, the rule allows a pitcher to throw eight pitches before each inning to warm up after sitting on the bench. We say normally, since now MLB has decided to apply a pitch clock to warm up pitches. This new rule somewhat…
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Bad Owners Series: Cincinnati Reds
One factor that MLB will never consider when examining their drop in popularity would be to look inward. That would be to take a good look at its ownership groups or more importantly their failed ownership groups. What is that old saying, “you can’t fire the boss.” Well maybe in this case the fans should…
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George Will, What the Hell!
George Will of political pundit fame also brandishes himself as a true blue baseball fan and has wrote about the game for many years now. One of his latest opinion pieces in The Washington Post has as us here at BP not just scratching our collective heads but outright banging them against the walls (which…
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Follow the Money, or Maybe Not?
Based on our last post (MLB Competitive Balance Not So Much), we examined the success and failure rates of all major league clubs by creating what we term the Baseball Purist (BP) Success Rate. We wondered though if there is a correlation between our rudimentary metric and the amount spent by each club over time. …
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MLB Competitive Balance
We do not hear much in baseball about competitive balance. Maybe we should. The table at the bottom of this post shows the records of all 30 teams since 2000, which shows the success and failure rates of all MLB clubs. How though should we measure success? Do we base it on a team’s win…
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